we slow down this footage of lightning appearing a a a a a fete. i'm dan ashton. >> and i'm christine z. melindaing on where you live this -- let's get to meteorologist drew tuesdayman. he's tracking whether conditioning right now. >> much of the video we're getting from the south bay, but a lot of us will see that in the next hour or to. live doppler 7 tracking it all along the peninsula into the south bay. this is where we've seen numerous reports of all the action. this is what you're seeing on doppler 7 rngs at least 11:00 in the past minutes or so. just if the past ten minutes a lightning strike off the coast of south san jose.

the cell moving over south san jose has a history of producing lightning at this hour. a few around richmond. the wider view into the north bay we go we've seen lightning but it has not moved into napa county just yet. watch this new cell that had just developed to the north of mount hamilton. we're going to track that one because it does have vivid looung. folks could expect lightning by 6:00 p.m. expect to hear rumble of thunder. the storm -- bring it on back. we rank our storms here at abc 7 from one to five. this is a light storm but it will impact your evening with gusty winds. we'llly get red of the heat in that full accu-weather guys. >> there's been up clean up

repairs in the south bay. >> let's go to david louie in san jose with the look at the damage there. david. >> reporter: what a strange weather day this has been especially in the south bay. we've had rain, thunder, lightning in the past hour. in the early morning hours this morning, we had heavy winds that took down trees and power lines. the gusts of winds woke up residence starting shortly after 2:30 this morning. the howling sound was nothing they expected. >> it sounded like a little mini hurricane, nothing like florida. >> reporter: dispatchers at the fire received calls as people called in down power lines and broken tree limbs. this tree was planted 60 years ago but the tree lost limbs to winds three years in a row. a cable has kept it from falling

over. >> it did fall over and block two lanes of traffic. >> reporter: retired san jose firefighter russ sereman found himself pressed. large limbs fell on to the neighbor's house, another limb broke a window in a park's suv in another neighbor's driveway. >> it could have done a lot more damage. there is pung churs in the roof up here some of it the size of my leg. >> reporter: crews were required to restore service of 11,000 customers. damage range from transformers to down power lines. one tree on university avenue displaced a large alcohol acolo bees. >> no damage anywhere else, there's just leaves and brush down, that's about it. the tree didn't fall on school property so we're okay. >> reporter: in santa cla ra,

david louie, abc 7 news. all lanes are blocked right there on highway 101. right now sky 7 live over the scene. this crash or car ended up on its side. look at the back up as we pan here, this is nbc 101 year the intersection of 237 so not far from moffitt field and mountain view in santa clara county. we know one person was hurt and taken away by balance. the biggest impact you could see is traffic. we'll keep monitoring the situation. an account gone viral amazing thousands of dollars in donations. it's all a result of an interaction between a police officer and a hot dock vender at saturday's football game. a football game shows the officer taking cash out of the

vender's walt in account for giving him a citation for not having the proper permit. laura you spoke with the officer. >> reporter: i did kristin and he defended his actions. the uc in the meantime has issued a statement saying they are opening an investigation into this incident. however they went on to say, this officer's action, that is removing $60 from the wallet of an unlicensed vender is quote, typical in a case like this. >> the vender who had his cash taken by uc berkeley police officer says he didn't know what to think at the time. he tried his best to obey the officer's order. >> translator: at that moment i was in a state of shock because of what was happening to me. i don't know how to explain it, i was in a state of shock when i saw he was taking my money. >> reporter: we spoke off camera with the officer to urge people to see the full contact of his actions. he said the cash was tan only as

evidence in support of the citation. uc berkeley scott says the university with investigate. nonetheless, the man who shot the video, martin flores, told us he was appalled. >> he close this one vender whose selling hot dogs, an individual who was probably vulnerable, an easy target. >> flores has started a go gund me page. with the initial goal of 10,000 it's now approaching 40,000. >> translator: to be honest with you i want to get my permit going and do things right. >> reporter: uc police did issue three other warnings to unlicensed venders at saturday's football game. in berkeley laurie anthony, abc 7 news. irma is no longer a powerful

hurricane but the death toll increased. a falling tree hit and killed a man today in south carolina. 42 people died in concluding in the caribbean, cuba and florida. 72 million people without power tonight. some storm survivorers in florida are surveying the damage, vac wees from the florida keys have to wait on infrastructure before they can return. >> we want to go home and see what's going on. >> we got a lot of damage and clean up. >> it was not as bad as i thought it was going to be. >> irma is a tropical storm stretching 650 miles east to west. this is affecting at least nine states. particularly, georgia, alabama and the caroline thats. workers are racing to get the lights on across florida. utility shared this video showing crews looking for down lines and toppled 100 employees are helping local

utilities out in florida. urgent certain and rescue crews are also in florida helping out. janene with the latest. >> reporter: well the women and men of the 129th rescue wing say they are ready for any scenario they encounter in florida. the captain told us they did send up four aircrafts to assess the damage there. this cell phone video was taken in the early morning hours when hurricane irma had just started approaching tampa. >> it was so loud, the gusts were so loud the tree outside my house kept hitting my roof, we were thinking it was going to come crashing into my house. i had 13 family members here, little babies all the way up to my mother. >> reporter: rivas tried to stay informed through television but they lost power. she says being cut off while the

winds howled for hours was terrifying. >> they told us it was going to be a few days before we get power. we did have a generator but like i said it ran out of gas. >> reporter: the 129th rescue wing from moffitt field has been waiting to spring into action. they left friday from florida and this morning the unit was called to survey the destruction. here's video the crew sent to show one of the helicopters in the air that's helping. >> basically to assess the area to come up with the right game plan to provide the right level of search and rescue support. >> the rescue wing spokesman wasn't able to tell us how many rescues were performed because they preoccupied with their mission. those on the ground are grateful for any help they can get. >> so many compelling images out of the states battled by irma. check this one out, this video was shot from downtown's

charlton. look at the water coming over the sea wall drowning the car, listen to the power of the storm. all right and how about this one, check out this video of a flooded neighborhood in ft. lauderdale. there's a guy who li livuous to the howling wind, just standing there in the road. that's a little dangerous but i think ithe's okay. this one zoewy stevens from chicago of rescuers. they said they don't have clean drinking water but they have power. this is a beach front home on a va llano beach in florida. it was a beech front. its collapsed on to the beach and completely destroyed. you can see new hurricane irma on our website, that's nbc news.com.

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the twin towers that collapsed. 16 years ago today nearly 6,000 people loss their lives on that day. a fire fighter who the accident on 9/11. he shares his story. >> as i was running to the north tower i had to pass the south tower the get to it. and the second jet came over my head at 9:03. and i realized it has to be a terrorist attack. the first thing i said to everybody tez, i said everybody on top of the buildings are going to die. need buildings are going to collapse but nobody believed me. so, i was right outside the south tower when it started coming down at 9:58 9:58 9:58 98 minutes after it was struck. i was right outside underneath

it. i started running when the building was coming down. slaps of concrete was hitting my body and i was buried underneath the rubble. i had fractured skull, my neck and spine was crushed i was bleeding internally. i was there with these other people, they all died and eventually was found alive. >> he recovered obviously and now travels the country sharing his story. recently he was in beaumont texas that was hit by harvey. he said he plan to pack up tools and drive there to help out. it's his way of helping the way the people helped in new york in 9/11. comedian robin williams will be announced in san francisco tomorrow. an area of a comedy event will be named in his honor. karen tyler with the details. >> reporter: robin williams helped put san francisco comedy

day on the map. often a secret financial benefactor. >> we formed a new party here in san francisco called a thc party. >> reporter: the festival is held in golden gate parks. now as a con tribute to the comedian as a blessing to his family. this will be known as robin williams meadow. deby who is the producer of comedy day has been working on this as a lasting legacy. >> i don't think you'd say oh come on you guys, there's better stuff to do than name stuff after me. he really gave of himself. >> reporter: according to the department the meadow has no name, it's called sharon because of the jay on arts building. now it will honor a man whose death in 2014 left a void in the

comedy community and among fans worldwide. >> when i immediately say his name, the electricity that came from the audience, it would make my hair stand on edge. it was so magical. >> reporter: the organizers needed to raise money to pay for a change of signs in golden gate park and still need commission approval, which the department head expects will happen. >> he was about tolerance and diversity and love and laughter. and those are san francisco values. >> reporter: the late great comic will be celebrated at the 37th annual comedy day festival on sunday. in san francisco, carolin tyler, abc 7 news. >> might be able to taste this summer over the years all the -- abc 7 knew else reporter wayne freedman is live with a look at whether that's a good or bad

thing. >> reporter: dan a good whine maker's going to taste that variation in climb and work with what they have and make fine wines. normally whether you see cabernet grapes this time of year their ripe and plump. this looks like raisins. i skeez this things and no juice comes out. this is what heat did to grapes this year in napa apa apa apa >> owning a winery means multi tasking. the effects of a heat wave on grapes. >> i've never seen 116 in the vineyard. >> she saw the temperatures four straight days and here's the result, clusters of be plump cabernet grapes include

dried up grapes. >> how much have you lost this year? >> average, 25%. >> which traffic lighlts quite a boutique that may put out 30,000 a year. pam expects to absorb the losses it also means more diligent work on the back end. >> we're going to have to be wine makers. som yores you don't have to be wine makers. some years you let the vineyard do that for you. >> reporter: many of the people who would pick these grapes have not returned this year. >> there is a timing factor so if all of us want to pick at the same time, it's going to be first come first serve. and it could be whose paying more. >> reporter: just one more thing to worry about and one other facet of wine making beyond her control. eventually it'll all be part of the story they'll tell when the

2017 vintage move from the vineyards to bottles. >> got to deal with whatever mother nature gives you. now, look at this, i don't know if you're getting this in your neighborhood, but look at that lightning in south san jose. a viewer took this video and shared it with us on twitter. abc 7 news drew is hear with the forecast. we don't see this too often. >> we really don't. it's been quite the sky show for the southern half of the region. a lot of people wonder, when can i go back outside, 30 minutes after you saw your last lightning strike. live doppler 7 showing you just in the past 30 minutes, over 100 lightning strikes detected in live doppler 7. it is an amazing show happening in our sky. the active areas, live doppler 7 lightning detected around freemont, and hay wood at this hour. the way these storms are moving,

it's in a south to north fashion. that's why we're seeing a lot of reports right now lightning. the storms are moving in that direction. the cell had some lightning at this hour. haywood around 6:33 expect more lightning. just before 7:00 might be more lightning strikes. 7:07 p.m., berkeley we do expect more lightning and showers. silicon valley, so many reports on twitter and facebook of seeing lightning and hearing thunder. pal low alto to the west of sunny dale. the way this storm is moving to the north as well. areas like south san francisco, even san francisco would not be surprised in the next 45 minutes if you start to see a couple of lightning strikes associated

with that. just saw our first lightning strike detected in the north bay. we break out the storm impact, it's been quite sometimes several months since we've had to use this. today we use this exclusively at abc 7. we rank or storm one to five. five with most severe. just to give you an idea of what to expect winthh ite through. tonight it's a one. any scattered that moves through your neighborhood will have lightning and gusty winds. the camera top, pier 15 quite an ominus sky over san francisco. the reason we're seeing these thunder showers, it's warm outside, muggy and tropical out there. 80s and 90s in our warmest spots. the good news, once the sun sets in the next couple of hours, the thunderstorms will lose the heating of the day.

what will remain the mild air over night, holding in the 60s. it's going to feel muggy over the next 12 hours or so. little humidity. not quite as hot tomorrow, cooler air arrive as we head into thursday and wednesday. we're still going to include a slide chance of showers tomorrow, not ton as widespread. even into wednesday morning. cooler air arrives wednesday afternoon. it will feel great thursday. the weekend looks dry. the next couple of hours as lightning showers moving through. wait 30 minutes until that last one you've seen move outside. >> i just texted that to my kids. coming up next, the clothing store that won't actually stock

a two-year lawsuit over that famous monkey selfie is over tonight. here's that picture. pita filed a suit on behalf of the monkey who snapped a picture. the cameraman argued it was his camera so he owned the photo. the judge dismissed the appeal of the case. 25% of the gross heavy knew will

be donated to charity. nordstrom will be one of the stories that won't stock any clothing. customers can shop inside online at the store and pick up clothes there. the customers -- the site will be a lot smaller than your typical nordstrom store. the first one will open in west hollywood in three weeks. the coast guard came to the rescue today and only nbc 7 news was there can sky 7 to see it all unfold. >> we'll walk you through the most dramatic moments start to finish. plus -- >> first there was distracted driving now it's distracted walkers that have the attention of

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there are many 9/11 memorials in america. >> not far away in concord there is this 9 slash

memo memory garden. two plaques that are dedicated to those who lost their lives. president trump led september 11th remembrances for the first time as commander and chief today. >> in new york, at the pentagon new yorkers remember the people who died on that day. >> reporter: 16 years of the airlines flight 11 struck the world trade center north tower. silence still seeks to fill the void. silence at 8:46 a.m. in new york and at the white house. and at 9:03 when a plane struck the south tower. 9:37 when the pentagon was hit.

9:59 when the south tower fell. remembering so many people lost so quickly. >> joseph ryan allan. >> richard dennis allen. >> and there would be more. vice president mike pence recalled the moment in 2001 police told the then, congressman a plane was 12 minutes from the u.s. capital, he waited. >> then it turned to 13 minutes, then we were informed that the plane had gone down in a field in pennsylvania. >> reporter: the very place he spoke monday, as more silence observed, the 10:03 crash there and 10:28 when the north tower fell. >> we mourn them. >> reporter: speaking at the pentagon, president trump says the flag that flies will there is to keep people safe.

>> america does not bend, we do not waiver and we will never ever yield. >> reporter: strong words marking this 16th anniversary field with powerful silence. inas whito mee dpa firefighters pay tribute to the anniversary from florida this morning. they posted this on instagram showing the team and other orlando crews at the convention center. they're there helping other authorities deal with hurricane irma. you can see more from 9/11 victims on our website, abc 7 news.com. sky 7 captured an amazing rescue this afternoon. a bay area woman and a man visiting from louisiana were trapped in a cave at muscle work park. the coast guard sent a rescue swimming repelling down into that cape. he pulled the woman into safety and went back to get the man.

they say the tide moved in quickly trapping them into the cave. there was nowhere to hide from the wet ocean and the wind gust. >> hoeltd on to the negative as mump as you could it was so strong it was almost blowing us -- >> once on dry ground the man wen back and thanked his rescuers. cple they had a few b and bruises they're doing fine. not long ago lawmakers moved a law for distracted driving. a lawmaker makes the first step toward distracted walking. it's a growing problem but a controversy sall solution. >> reporter: how often do you cross the street looking at your phone? >> occasional. >> reporter: do you use your phone whe cninssro>> all the ti. >> reporter: what for?

>> to text. we get caught up in our phones. i in fact several years walked across the street and hit a pole. >> reporter: the mayor realizes the dangers first hand. >> if you're walking across the street. >> reporter: passing the law is no so simple. only the state can governor what's legal on the road. >> this is about people's safety. >> reporter: the lunch time crowd is pretty divided on this, not that anybody disagrees this is dangerous. not everything dangerous should be legal. e>> it sh a allow against it, we're individuals this is america and we should will b able to live our lives. in 1980s when the passed the seat belt law people said hey, we should have the freedom of americans to driver without a seat belt. >> reporter: just like seat belt some think a ban on crossing the street whi usir phone

mayou be y a healthy convenienc. >> if there were a law i'd recognize it's dangerous. >> reporter: in fact it's illegal in honolulu. but those laws aren't the only way he's challenging tech companies. >> maybe they can create when you go across the cross walk beforehand something says a message, look up. >> not too farfetched where pedestrians have to look up for cars. this three-month old kitten is lag for her forever home. a step up from the place where she was rescued. looking live outside from the east bay hills cameras. we'r

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a breakthrough in helicopter technology has come to nbc 7 news. cls it's an eye in the sky unlike any other in the bay area. abc's traffic anchor shows us how sky 7 works. >> reporter: sky 7

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an area is affected when news breaks. when a fire burns this hillside sky map 7 was able to detect it. the sky map 7 you'll know exactly what is impacted when news happens whether it's near schools or businesses off 880. sky map 7 on sky 7. another reason abc 7 news is your choice for breaking news. alexa smith abc 7 news. an active day as thunderstorms roll into the bay area. this is in san francisco. pitch forks of lightning out there tonight. there tonight. drew tracking it all for been trying to prepare for this day... and i'm still not ready. the reason i'm telling you this is that there will be moments in your life that...

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a three-month old kitten that was saved from a gas station dumb expert in mellow park is in need of a loving home. this is prudence, heard her cries from help from the bottom of a dumpster. an office of the humane society responded and saved the kitten. now she's up for adoption. >> we're hoping that a kind

hearted family would come to our shelter and meet her and give her a much better life than she started out with. >> prudence has no collar or micro chip and she was left in the dumpster. veterinarians say she's in good help health. 16% of all californians diagnosed with cancer are now being treated. >> abc news reporter tells us how cancer patients would benefit. >> i'm as healthy as you are, maybe healthier. >> reporter: led by the president who recently battled cancer herself, the five centers announced a new model for cancer research and treatment. for example in the case of clinical trials, instead of having one cancer center involved, the new model would striver for trials system wide. >> combining forces, we could open up clinical trials must

faster way across the whole system giving patients more choice and availability of new treatments. >> as a treatment we're going along together. >> reporter: dr. charles ryan is a oncologist who says sharing data sets will help researchers make knew discoveries. >> we are entering a phase where the.com of shared ji knowic information can lead to important discovers and identify patients for new therapies. >> reporter: this collaboration will help the entire system come up with a better strategy to improve a patient's outcome. by joining forces the centers will work on cancer prevention programs at a much needed time. while cancer rates has declined significantly in the past 20 years, this years 176,000 people in california will diagnosed wied w /* /- with some type of

cancer. >> we -- >> reporter: researchers they have reached a point where the onlyay way to make major advances is through collaboration. the five centers are uc sf, ucla, uc irvine, uc davis and uc san francisco. viewers just keep capturing lightning all around the bay area this evening. brian stapleton posted this video on gram of lightning over the sir excuse mountains. >> drew is back to update the forecast. >> incredible images. take them if and only if you can safely shoot the videos and pictures. lightning can travel ten miles away from the storm. live doppler 7 is getting tighter right now. the shower, storms, lightning and thunder moving away from san jose and mountain, we are still

seeing lightning and hearing thunder. look at those lightnings among san matteo. and san francisco, roughly ten to 11 lightning strikes. you're probably hearing thunder around san francisco right now. all this moving to a south to north fashion. i want expect in the next hour or so, folks in marin, sano may and perhaps napa county will like likely hear thunder as the storms move through. on the impact scale we're bringing it back. we rank or storms here here here tonight it's a 1. the accurate seven day forecast, still a slight chance, not expecting as widespread of a thunder shower as we're seeing right now, even a chance early wednesday. by wednesday afternoon into thursday everything changes. it turns cooler, the humidity's

out of here and comfortable by friday. >> i like comfortable. >> all right larry with lots of sports action. >> 49ers may without star lionbacker for a while. we'll explain why. >> the tigers don't

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well the raiders pulled off a road win against the titans to kick start their season. the story today was the kicker. he was in training camp with the team that was brought back when sebastian went on injury reserve with a back injury. they kept him on others to try out because he was also left footed. the former -- and cal bird became the left kicker. going 4 for 4 on the day, the raiders -- without his performance, says roberts all he does is catch touch downs. overall coach jack is happy. >> the operation lining up, executing the plays, understand

where he belong, playing together, playing through adversity, all those thing pretty good. i think, what we're looking to improve each and every week, so it's clear a laundry list of things we need to do better. a good place to start. meanwhile, the 49ers were not as bad as the score indicated. the panthers were -- worth 20 points to carolina. defense was playing well until ruben foster got hurt. high ankle sprain and he could be out a month. the hell cam newton helped that. the 49ers offense meanwhile, the line gave up four sacks, five pre-snap penalties shooting themselves in the foot. the run game was there but they got away from him when they fell

behind. coach shanahan taking the good with the bad. >> when you have those opportunities and you take them and you come up a little short when you're going against a good team. i think our guys watching the tape today, by no means do they look at it and feel they don't have a chance. i think we're all disappointed because there's a number of times we would have had a chance to be in that game with we came up short. the cowboys, ball hits and knocked out. pins on the back of the shoulder pad and makes the grip. lot of different ways to catch the rock these days. l.a. has received the formal go ahead to host the 2020 summer olympics. details need to be finalized by the olympics back in l.a. for the first time since 1984. los angeles will receive up to $2 billion from the ioc to

facility t facility the game. >> earlier this month the ga game winning streak. bases clear in triple, cleveland puts up five in the inning for a 5-0 league. the fourth, ramirez, two run homer, makes it 7-0. 9-0 in the seventh. cleveland will have the 19th strait victory. former pitcher ryan will -- as he comes full circle and will retire in the san francisco/giants uniform. he'll take them out one last time. no more gritty pitcher ever wore john's uniform, great pitcher and person on and off the field. johnson dodgers tonight at at&t delayed right now because of lightning. we have two monday night games.

we'll have that for you tonight at 9:00 and 11:00. ryan focused on great guy, good to see him come back and retire as a giant. >> great befitting. >> his life story was real an inspiration. >> join us tonight at 9:00 on coffee on channel 13. video just in on a plane tried to land when it clips a tree. on abc news at 11:00 tracking the lightning across the bay area. special teams watching for fires. we want to thanks joe for capturing this screen shot. when lightning hit right behind me while we were on the air tonight. >> i know, it's remarkable right. you can see the time stamp in the corner. happened at 6:33 p.m.. >> was it something i said? be safe everybody. thanks for joining us tonight. >> we appreciate your time. see you again at 9:00.

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