this is abc 7 mornings. >> what a show in the sky. did you see this? hundreds of lightning strikes led to some stunning footage. >> and as incredible as it was also led to issues around the bay area. your chance at another show may happen very soon. coming to you at a theater near you. >> that's right. no theater necessary, just have to look up in the sky. good morning, welcome. it is tuesday, september 12th. reggie off today, jess sitting with me at the desk. mike, just a few more hours to wait and we could see it all again. >> very hard to go to bed last night with all of that happening. thank you to everybody sending me pictures and videos.

it will happen again tonight i think a little bit later. air is stable this morning, no radar returns right now, in fact, air is pretty clear and a little cooler as you look from mt. tam. 61 to 67 is our temperature there. humidity and a little more sunshine today. mid 70s to low 80s at noon, upper 60s to mid 80s around 4:00 and then some thunderstorms start to pop during the evening hours. 65 to about 77 degrees. we will have an hour by hour look at our next lightning show coming up first how about that morning commute. >> it is ramping up, mike. here is a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights on at 5:20 this morning. starting to back up through the maze. no blocking issues as you head into san francisco. we are looking at an hour for our drive time westbound 580. still have a disabled vehicle blocking. westbound 4 antioch to concord in the yellow at 28 and southbound 101 you are looking good in the green at 16 minutes.

i know you were sleeping, does is this, though? back to the lightning show overnight. just incredible forks of lightning there. the national weather service said it detected about 1,000 cloud to ground lightning strikes as of 10:00 p.m. last night. the strikes and heavy winds caused power outages across the bay area. this morning pg & e crews are still working to respect about 1,800 customers, more than half are in san francisco and the peninsula. let's get to some developing news this morning on the other side of the country. listen to these new numbers, fema officials are now saying 25% of homes in the florida keys have been destroyed by hurricane irma, 65% have major damage. that news coming this morning just as people are being allowed to return to that area to assess the damage. officials say limited services will be available today. millions of customers are still without power, though, and most gas stations remain closed. at least 11 deaths across three states are now being blamed on irma. >> it went through their

kitchens, their living rooms. i mean, these people have restored their houses three times in three years and that's devastating. right now i'm at the mercy of when the water goes oun where we can get out of here. >> as things start to calm down the royal caribbean and carnival cruise lines plan to resume sailing out of florida today after a four-day break. pg & e workers are part of the team helping to get the lights back on across florida. the utility shared video with us showing he crews looking for downed lines and toppled trees. at least 100 pg & e workers are helping local utilities in florida. happening tonight dozens of celebrities will be part of a special telethon to benefit those affected by hurricane harvey that ravaged texas. george clooney, jamie foxx, beyoncé, oprah, reese witherspoon a few of the names expected to take part. the telethon will raise money for thousands of people in texas who were displaced and countless others who have lost their home because of the storm there and continued flooding. you can watch the hand in hand

benefit at 8:00 tonight right here on abc 7. >> hoping it does a lot of good. new developments now, uk berkeley police will investigate a viral video, it was captured after saturday's football game. the video shows an officer citing a hotdog vendor for selling food without a permit and confiscating his cash. police issued warnings to three other unlicensed vendors at that game. the video was posted on facebook and gained a lot of attention from people who believe that that man was unfairly targeted. a vendor tells abc 7 news that he was shocked when the officer took his money. >> translator: to be quite honest with you, i want to get my permit and get my business going. do things right and make it official. so i don't find myself in that situation again. >> abc 7 news spoke with the police officer off camera. he urges the public to consider the full context of the situation and says he only took the cash as evidence to support the citation. developing news this morning an east bay congressman says he had no idea fraudulent contributions were made to his campaign.

the sf gate reports representative eric swalwell accepted illegal donations in 2012 and 2013 and the money will be donated to charity. swalwell's campaign office says he did not know about the fraudulent contributions until the fbi a rented james tong of pleasanton. prosecutors say tong used others to make donations on his behalf to bypass campaign contribution limits. he is due in court later in month. developing news out of antioch. investigators looking into a series of suspicious fire. contra costa firefighters responded to five fires. they want to know if the fires are connected and if there is an arsonist out there. shane davis says his father tired to hose down this fire outside of a indonesian baptist church. >> i heard lound crackling and noises and looked out our balcony window and i told our family and they ran out of the

house as fast as we can. >> the fire department is asking potential witnesses to come forward. >> a whole lot of hype this morning, happening today apple will unveil the new iphone in its first event at the steve jobs theater on its new campus. abc 7 news reporter matt keller is live at apple park in cupertino. matt, can you feel the excitement already? >> reporter: yes, a lot of excitement here, a lot of employees are excited. i want to welcome you here to the spaceship. i don't know which is the bigger deal, the fact that they allowed the immediate. on to his campus and to get video of all this for the very first time or the fact they will be making a big announcement in this building right here, this is the steve jobs theater and it's a beautiful building here on the campus and they will be making a big announcement later this morning about the new iphone. tech experts have nicknamed it the ten year anniversary model. it's rumored to cost more with a price tag of $1,000, that's twice as muc as the original i gone. what kind of features can you

expect? you can expect dramatic redesign, leaked information suggests the display will ex tand to all edges of the device, the latest iphone is expected to have a better camera and wireless charging capacity and may include facial recognition technology for unlocking the phone. the big event starts this morning at 10:00. reporting live in cupertino, matt keller. >> matt is excited to be at apple park. we are going to stay on top of today's app announcement. if you want to know all the latest information download our app and remember to enable those push alerts to you are first to know. as irma wears down the aftermath is just stunning. we have new images from nasa showing how bad had i it hit the caribbean. >> cities like san francisco >> cities like san francisco rushing to get 35% off on coit residential cleaning services including carpet and hardwood, tile, stone, even air ducts and window treatments. and your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed or your money back. that's 35% off everything coit cleans.

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including green vegetation being ripped away by those constant beating winds, leaving the images of bare ground. isn't that just amazing? and i know there are no -- i don't know if there's no flights, but i know for sure there are no boats going there. they depend so much on tourism and none of the cruise boats can get there because there's nothing to see, nothing to do, they have to clean up. it's a real catch-22 for those folks right now. i want to talk about us and the 3030 rule. thunderstorm lightning safety. if you see lightning kound, less than 30 seconds seek shelter and wait inside 30 minutes after you see the last bolt of lightning or clap of thunder. pretty much all of us in the mid to upper 60s. quick look at what's going to happen today around the state. best chance of thunderstorms during the day in the sierra, we will have our chance tonight and i will show you what coming up next. i will take you around on a tour of our traffic maps. we have a handful of problems

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now a live desk update. >> from abc 7 mornings. welcome back. just coming into our live desk this morning hope hicks has been named the permanent white house communications director. the 28-year-old became the interim communications director after anthony scaramucci's 11 day stint on the job. hicks is a long time trump aid who worked for the trump organization and was a spokeswoman during the presidential campaign. she now becomes the president's third white house communications director. >> 6:15. the focus over the past few days has been on irma but this morning people have not forgotten victims of harvey. many displaced families live in

shelters right now so a las vegas group is stepping in to help. absolute exhibits partnering with a lumber company to build beds out of donated woods, they have cut, sanded and pieced together hundreds of frames so far. they will be delivered to a houston children's charity. they also collected comforters, backpacks for the bigs. the berkeley city council will discuss reforming the police review commission. according to the daily californian council members want to improve use of force reporting policies and give the commission full access to city records. voters would decide on the changes next year. the center for policing and equity advised the council to make those improvements after black lives matter protests back in 2014. the berkeley police were accused of using excessive force to control protesters. in a similar situation in santa clara county, today county supervisors will consider a plan to establish a civilian overnight office to hold law enforcement accountable. it comes two years after the deadly beating of a mentally ill inmate at the county jail.

three jail guards were convicted in the death of michael tyree. you are let your ro voice be heard at the san francisco police commission meeting about whether officers should use tasers. the meeting starts at 6:00 tonight at the bill graham civic auditorium. police chief william scott supports tasers as a less lethal tool. there will be another meeting next tuesday at the city college of san francisco. a moratorium on new marijuana dispensaries is back up for debate in san francisco. the board of supervisors is considering a 45 day pause on new permits. the chronicle reports that it's has enough support to pass.ance- the proposal comes as mayor ed lee puts together an office of cannabis to manage the industry. hillary clinton's book comes out today and it's titled "what happened" provides her perspective on last year's election and why she lost. clinton will speak at opera plaza near civic center on october 6th and visit uc davis a few days later. she is expected to appear on the

view tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. wild weather last night. >> yes. >> a lot of people were ready for it because you told us about it but a lot of people also really surprised to see it. >> so here is your opportunity to get informed. it is happening again tonight says mike. >> absolutely. we could see a replay but it will be later on. it won't be quite as early i don't think this time. let's show you some of that lightning that we were dealing with. the lightning show across the bay area. a lot of cloud to ground lightning, the most dangerous kind up to 50,000 degrees fahrenheit, millions of volts of energy in that and it's beautiful, too. at least it is to me. i find it absolutely fascinating. look at that. how much longer do we have here, director? we can keep watching this for another 30 seconds? this is awesome. all right. we should probably move on. oh, the fork lightning is the best. does how it branched out in different sections. absolutely gorgeous. you can go on our website, we have more of those videos and we will keep posting them as we keep receiving them from you.

thank you. here is a look at what's going on right now, rainfall amounts .2 of an inch at sfo. downtown san francisco, oakland .07 and san jose .04. anytime you have thunderstorms the next morning you get these cool clouds that are lingering around. you can see the colorful sunrise developing now. we will have more sunshine today and storms will develop but it's going to be better tonight for that development of thunderstorms. we will have cool to seasonal highs in the extended. here is last night's or yesterday afternoon, evening, last night's storms well up to our north, anything over the ocean will continue rotating out over the ocean. let's go hour by hour from 7:00 all the way up to noon. pretty much nothing. you can see up in the sierra there in the upper right-hand corner of your screen that's where we have the best chance of forms but there are a few isolated ones you can see at 5:00. once we get around midnight that's when i think we get the spark needed through tomorrow's morning commute for more scattered thunderstorms with brief downpours, locally gusty

winds and even small hail. by 9:00 you can see it start to is that rifle up to an isolated chance. looks like tomorrow morning could be our next window. my accuweather seven-day forecast coolest thursday, a touch of fall comes in from alaska. once that has moved on friday, saturday and sunday temperatures much more seasonable and the weather much quieter. alexis, how are those streets? >> not so quiet. we have a handful of issues. vallejo no change here we have a two car collision blocking the left lane westbound 80 just before you get to georgia street but that backup continues to grow. you are slow from route route 37 that's getting close to four miles and that is a hefty delay. unfortunately once you make it bast that westbound 80 before san pab san pablo dam road, emergency crews just getting to the scene there. we have not gotten words on injuries yet. a quick check outside.

there's one more problem along that westbound 80 route if you're trying to get to the maze, disabled vehicle is blocking the shoulder near powell. i was checking to see if we could see it on our emeryville camera. doesn't look like big delays yet but we are seeing those typical blackups. we not have just one but two problems getting out of the central valley, we will talk about that next. >> we will check in with you shortly. are you looking for a job? the pal alto police department is kicking off a major recruiting campaign, look to go hire new police officers and dispatchers. the department is covering a $25,000 in case incentive for officers who come to work in palo alto from other police department. the city offers a $10,000 incentive for applicants who have already graduated from a police academy. happening today in the north bay officials will unveil a pilot program to get more people aboard the smart train by offering a discount. transportation authority marin is partnering with lyft and

whistle stop to make it easier for people to get to and from the smart train. the pilot program is called get smart '17. $5 discounts will be available starting today. lyft riders can sign up in the app and whistle stop have to mention get smart when they book a ride. monday night football making history off the field and it involves someone the bay area is familiar with. >> credit reporting service >> credit reporting service equifax had one of the

6:25. welcome back. the nfl made history with the first woman to ever call a monday night football game. >> we welcome you to >> that is beth mowen. she did a play by play for the chargers broncos game last night. she has called pre-season games for the raiders since 2015 and college football games for 26 years. she is actually the second woman pto call an nfl game. actually a former classmate of mike shumann's gail sierens called a game three years ago. ladies making it happening, doing big things. i love to see it. >> here on our desk this morning, too. >> good to see beth mowens doing

that. she is no rookie as you said. nice to see her, get that accolade. time to ask finny this morning. lily has a question about those outdated products. >> she spoke to us and michael finney has your answer. >> i was just wondering can you make a profit off of items that are considered out of date? >> hey, lily, you sure can, the antique business is built on it. i have a friend who deals with old video games and radios. so i watch him and i know that old can be very profitable. condition and rarity are the important factors. a quick way to find out what an item is worth is to go on to ebay. there are a lot of people every weekend going from garage sale to garage sale and they are proving my point because they are picking up items for a quarter, 50 cents and selling them online for 100 bucks or something. that's a good way to go. if you need a hobby and want to earn some money, old is good.

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good morning, bay area. >> let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. wow, and what an end to the summer, first the heat wave and now mother nature giving us this. >> of course, everyone talking about the lightning, thunder and rain that hit us last night and it is not over yet. >> good morning to you. welcome to tuesday, september 12th. reggie off today, jess joining knee on the mike nicco forecasting more thunderstorms for tonight. >> that person wasn't following the 030 rule were they. >> too close for comfort. >> did you hear how quickly the thunder was after the lightning, that lightning was probably half a mile away from them. 30/30 rule, count 30 seconds after you see the lightning and hear thunder, go inside until 30

minutes after you see the last night thing. it's going to get active again tonight through tomorrow morning. gorgeous sunrise developing from our exploratorium camera at pier 15. up to 9 degrees cooler when you step outside this morning. we will stay in the low 70s at the coast noon to 4:00, 77 to 82 around the bay, 82 to 86 at 4:00. humidity is around and notice by 7:00 there that's when the thunderstorms will reignite. i will give you an hour by hour look coming up. how about that commute this morning. >> not great out of the en is he tropical valley. we had a disabled van sitting in the far left lane westbound 80 before grant line road for 45 minutes, that has cleared. we had a new crash pop up just before greenville road they pushed that off to the shoulder however you add all that up there and that backup on to 205 into the tracy area we are looking at about an hour and 5 minutes. it's not nearly as bad as yesterday, but you may want to consider altamonte pass road or

patterson pass road for an alternate. we will take a look at a couple delays on westbound 80 through the east bay as well coming up next. our viewers came through big time. look at these amazing shots all from last night's big storm. chances are some strikes you saw them where you live as well. as incredible as the images and the video it, it did lead to a few issues around the bay area. abc 7 news reporter amy hole field is live at sfo with a scary situation for a worker there. >> reporter: the duty manager tells me they had a worker out on the runway last night who was worried that he had been struck i by lightning. his ears were ringing. paramedics responded, they treated him, couldn't find any evidence that he had been struck but some airlines did pull their ramp employees inside just in case. we have a feature reel for you here so you can get a look at all of the wonderful beautiful impressive lightning strikes that happened last night, we captured several of them from all over the bay area from san francisco to san jose.

there is also loud thunder accompanying the lightning, rain, it was also unusual for this area and time of year, but it did cause some problems. here are the latest power outages from pg & e this morning. these numbers just coming into us at 565 customers on the pens will are still waiting for the lights to come back on, san francisco 541, a total of 1,872 customers without power this morning. cal fire santa clara unit did respond to a few spot fires from the lightning and said they got them out quickly so no problems from those. reporting live at sfo, amy hollyfield. it was a long night for giants fans after two weather delays. their series opener against the dodgers at at&t park didn't wrap up until 2:11 in the morning. the first pitch was delayed 42 minutes because the lightning storm started before the scheduled start time. the second delay lasted nearly three hours but the game resuming just before 11:00 last night. in the end, though, it worked

out, the giants beat l.a. 8-6. mike has more on tonight's chances of thunderstorms in just a few minutes. we will check in with him in just a moment. those folks probably need a lot of coffee today. a lot of people were outside, not just baseball fans watching the lightning. a man in alameda says he saw the moment a lightning bolt hit. >> a lot of unusual thunder, i have never heard anything like that before, actually it was right over here. it was iridescent with these cool different colors. wasn't your stereotypical white lightning bolt. it was actually really cool. >> we'd like to thank carlos and owl of our viewers for shaving their videos and photos of lightning across the bay area. please stay safe. use that ul mike was talking about. to check out our lightning images go to abc7news.com. today utility crews are spread out all across the entire state of florida working to restore electricity to customers impacted about i hurricane irma. the governor of florida says the storm left devastation on the keys. nearly 7 million homes and

businesses in five different states are without power right now. irma has been downgraded to a post tropical cyclone this morning but it's still expected to bring in heavy rain to the carolinas, kentucky and tennessee throughout today. miami beach and florida keys residents are just starting to return this morning to see some of the damage left behind. 6:35. happening today the santa clara county board of supervisors will consider providing thousands of dollars to help daca recipients. the board will discuss allocating $200,000 to establish an emergency daca program. it would help with renewal applications, entrepreneurship training and behavioral health services. daca protects hundreds of thousands of young people brought here illegally as children from deportation. santa clara county is home to 24,000 daca recipients. after weeks of negotiations california sanctuary state bill is headed to the assembly for approval. comes after state senate leaders amended the original bill to address some concerns from law enforcement and governor brown. the bill now allows local law

enforcement to share information about inmates convicted of roughly 800 violent or serious crimes, also allows police to hold those inmates at the request of federal authorities. police had originally been concerned with the original bill because they thought it could protect felons. happening today, the santa clara county board of supervisors will take a moment to honor a member of the abc 7 news family to recently passed away, clyde powell died unexpectedly in his sleep last month. he covered news in the bay area for nearly four decades and helped us with our coverage in the south bay. santa clara county supervisors will adjourn their meeting today in his memory. >> clyde, our colleague and our thoughts with his family of course. well, the bank robbery suspect and her partner that you see here on your screens behind bars this morning. a sonoma police actually thanking the public, they say alert citizens helped track down katrina hockney and miguel maravia. the two wanted for a previous

robbery attempt in napa. witnesses say they saw their van, alerted police and then authorities arrested the duo. san jose police need your help to find the suspects who robbed an elderly woman last month. surveillance video captured the august 31st ro be ri in the parking lot on story road. police say the suspect approached the woman and ripped her purse from her after a violent struggle. the suspect got into a dark colored four-door nissan. the victim had minor injuries but is okay. anyone with information is asked to contact san jose police. san francisco will remain sharon meadows after robin williams. it's where san francisco comedy day has been held for decades and the late comedian helped put on the annual event. he helped put it on the map. he was striems a headline or or surprise guest, he was also a secret financial benefactor. organizers of the name change released at least -- they collected 1 -- 100,000 signatures i should say for

signs in the golden gate park area, to also change some brochures. >> it was about tolerance and diversity and quirkiness and love and laughter and those are quintessential san francisco values. and the legendary comedian will be celebrated by 37th annual comedy day festival on son at now robin williams meadow. a san matteo county supervisor will launch an effort to make crossing a street while looking down at your cellphone a drive. david canepa says distracted driving already illegal so it makes sense to make distracted walking illegal, too. only the state can govern what is legal on california roads so can at that wants the board to back a resolution that would be asking state lawmakers to consider a pedestrian ban. the board is meeting at 9:00 this morning. today berkeley city leaders will consider an ordinance that would allow women to go topless in public. they call it a matter of gender

equality. the proposed change applies only to public streets and private businesses could still refuse service to people not wearing shirts or shoes. now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> let's talk about what to do with the kids this morning then we will get deeper into this next chance of thunderstorms. hi, everybody, let's go to the bus stop forecast and school day forecast. temperatures at the coast 61 at 7:00 to 70 at 3:00, around the bay 65 this morning to 79 at 3:00 and 67 inland to 86. so we will go from a cooler start to mild to warm conditons this afternoon. you can see some of the leftover clouds at the golden gate bridge and a light wind. no rain this morning, maybe a few damp spots from yesterday's rain. light breezes if you're going to be on the bay. let's take a look what's going on tonight. less likely you will have a rain delay than last night, i think

the rain will hold off just until the game is over. 7:15 first pitch. 67 degrees at at&t park dropping down to 63. pretty mild there. let's take a look at our high temperatures. we have 80s in our inland neighborhoods, 70s around the bay to 80s and 70s along the coast. notice the winds have changed. 60s, 70s and barely 80s tomorrow. mainly 60s and 70s for thursday. take a look at that weekend forecast coming up in just a second. i want to show you what's going on with what's left of irma from the lower mississippi river valley all the way up to the mid-atlantic states. i checked the airports, only philadelphia is having issues, but there could be some as it continues to rain. no watches, no warnings out of this system. the winds are gusting around 25 to 30 miles per hour so hopefully the damage is over. but speaking of damage, any damage on the roads this morning? >> yeah, unfortunately we have gotten busy in the last 30 minutes. a couple issues, if you are traveling westbound through the east bay trying to get to the

maze, going to take you up to vallejo first, this one has been here for 40 minutes, westbound 80 before georgia street right around that 780 interchange we have that left lane down, this is a two car collision to that backup up about 3 1/2 miles at this point, right around state route 37. once you make it past that another crash this one involving seven wreeks vehicles and that's not two left lanes westbound 80 just before san pablo dam road, you are jammed from the highway 4 interchange. i will throw one more at you, too, if you're continuing along this same path, just getting reports of a new collision within the bay bridge toll plaza reported in lane 4 so that should be right around here, i am not seeing any emergency crews yet. i will try to have more details and have an update in less than ten minutes. customers for the credit report company equifax are responding in full force after their massive data breach. >> plus what's happening with a controversial bill about prescription drug prices. >> here is what's coming up

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single structure. officials are saying only moments ago 90% of buildings were damaged. you can see the widespread damage in this video. trees torn from the ground, roofed ripped from their homes and buildings, residents evacuated to their nearby sister island antigua. only military and police are now allowed on the island at least for now to repair barbuda's infrastructure and government officials say they will need at least $150 million. governor brown has signed a bill that will make it illegal to smoke pot while driving or riding in a car. it's already illegal to drive while high on pot or to have an open bag of marijuana in the car. a new law bans smoking pot or eating any edibles. violators face a $70 fine. nw we want to give you an inn vieder's look at cool technology at abc 7. let's get over to alexis for more on this story. >> this is a breakthrough in helicopter technology and it has come to abc 7 news.

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you can even see exactly what speed traffic is moving and pinpoint specific vehicles. caught in a jam on highway 24 in lafayette? sky map 7 will show you the lemg of the backup. it will also tell you how big of an area is ekt if aed when news breaks. when a fire burned this dublin hillside sky map 7 was able to measure it. using recent satellite imagery it can show you what the area looked like before the blaze live. with sky map 7 you will know exactly what is impacted when news happens, whether it's near schools or businesses off 880. it is sky map 7 on sky 7. another reason abc 7 news is your choice for breaking news. jessica, natasha, back to you. >> blowing my mind. >> a great tool for our breaking news coverage. it's going to be great. >> absolutely. >> just retweeted you on that, alexis. check out her tweet for more info. the california state assembly has passed a controversial bill it allows for for transparency in drug prices.

>> the bill would require pharmaceutical companies to give a 60 day notice for any price increase above 16%. supporters say this bill would let health insurers negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs. drug makers oppose the bill saying it's misleading because the prices of medicine vary depending on package sizes and doses. the senate will vote on the bill this week. it is time for us to stand for this next story. because there is a new study out and it followed a group of people, 8,000 individuals older than 45 -- thanks for panning up, guys. the results show that sitting for long periods of time they are talking about an hour to 90 consecutive minutes can lead to an earlier death and it did not matter how much the person exercised to compensate for it. it also accounted for several variables like age, race, gender, very guessing news for those of us who sit for long periods of time. okay. now to your morning money report, equifax dealing with the fallout of that massive data breach. >> the credit reporting service

faces at least 23 class action lawsuits right now and more cases may still be filed. the lawsuits were filed in 14 states including here in california and the district of columbia. the cyber attack exposed private information of 143 million americans. san francisco parking meters should soon see a surge pricing at peak hours. a parking meter policy would expand the sf park pilot program to meters throughout the city and prices there range from 50 cents to $8 an hour depending on the meter's location and the time. proponents of doing this say that surge pricing helps free up parking spaces faster, but some people question how those prices are set. if this is approved by the mta the program could be expanded by the end of this year. forget swiping through hangers, california will be home to the first nordstrom concept storm which will not stock any clothing inside. instead customers shop online

inside of the store and can pick up online orders there. the store is named in order drom local. it is the first one that will open in west hollywood in three weeks, it will offer personal stylists, manicurists and a beverage service but no goods to look through. >> i like to go to the store and try things on. i don't online shop. >> i do and the whole point is that you get to stay at home, you don't have to go and drive somewhere and find parking and all of that other stuff. am i right? >> especially in the rain, then you have to wait longer or find a spot. >> i don't get it. i don't get it. that's just me. i'm with you guys. hi, everybody, let's take a look. if you're driving southbound on 101 in san rafael, driving off into a blue pink abyss there this morning as some of the leftover clouds from yesterday's storms. i just checked over 6,700 lightning strikes across the state yesterday. we were part of that. partly cloudy, humidity hangs, leading to more storms today and

tomorrow. looks like we have fall to seasonal temperatures on the way. here is the area of low pressure that brought us yesterday's wet weather and will do the same today. yesterday we were talk about this batch down over the high desert that was going to come up and bring us. notice there's nothing there right now so the storms are going to come through a little bit later. i did put the storm impact scale on, chance of thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow. it's just a 1 because it's a chance and there will be a brief downpour, maybe smal hail like in san jose and locally gusting winds. i'm not expecting any damage. hour by hour, you can see pretty much nothing. expect more sunshine today. most of the afternoon thunderstorms in the sierra, a few isolated storms as we head towards the evening commute. pretty quiet until midnight. that's when everything starts to explode through tomorrow's morning commute from 4:30 to 9:00. then it becomes isolated from 9:00 to noon and just really a random shower or thunderstorm is possible tomorrow afternoon. looks like a morning event for tomorrow.

alexis and i will keep you on that. tomorrow will be cooler and a touch of cool from alaska arrives thursday, warm back to average industry, hold steady saturday, sunday and morning. >> i want to take you to a traffic alert in union square area. let's zoom in on our traffic maps here. to come surface streets in san francisco. we have a police activity this is a possible shooting investigation on ofarrel that is closed between mason and a half block in that eastbound direction. it's between mason and cyril magnum streets. we are working to confirm all of this with sfpd right now. we do have sky 7 launching at the moment, they probably will not get there in the next ten minutes or so. as soon as we have information we will pass that along to you. this is impacting muny. because of that police actively they are saying likely expect delays, we have not gotten an estimated on how long those delays will be. that is inbound 30, 38, 38 r and 45. i will have an update in a

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time now is 6:55 and these are the seven things to know before you go. number one, police are investigating a possible shooting in the union square area of san francisco. this is sky 7 on the way t scene right now. i will zoom in on our traffic maps. this is having an impact on traffic. we have eastbound owe farrell street closed at mason for a half a block for this police activity. we are working to confirm everything. this is inn packeting muni routes as well. a spectacular show in the sky, thunder and lightning struck the bay area overnight the national weather service recorded 1200 cloud to ground strikes and.,000 flashes. the storm knocked out power to thousands of people and pg & e is still pardon at work. your 12-hour day planner, pretty quiet through most of the day today, a little cooler, hill humid, a little more sunshine. the storms will get started a couple hours later during the evening and last during the overnight hours through this

time tomorrow. number four, residents in the florida keys are starting to head home today after hurricane irma hit. at least 11 deaths in the u.s. are blamed on irma. more than 6 million customers are without power today. number five, hope hicks has been named permanent white house communications director. the 28-year-old is the third person to hold the job since president trump took office. san francisco will remain sharon meadow to robin williams meadow, it's the site of comedy day which he head lined and supported. the late comedian will be celebrated on sunday. number 7, today is the day, apple set to reveal its new iphone. this will be the first apple event at the company's new apple park in cupertino. today's event kicks off at 10:00 a.m. follow us on twitter and download the abc 7 news app, we will send you up to the minute details as the event is going on today. grab that old phone and follow along. >> for the new one. >> gma

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