we have links to multiple charities accepting donations. check abc 7 news.com for the information. divers will try to locate several shipping containers that slid off a cargo ship into oakland's outer harbor. sky 7 was overhead soon after 11 empty containers went in yesterday afternoon. crews secured the ones that they could spot so they wouldn't drift away. some did sink. the coast guard were guiding ships around the area as a precaution. port officials are not sure how the containers fell into the harbor. harbor. it's 4:30. it was a little breezy yesterday. you can see it is still breezy in our hills but that will not translate like yesterday in our valleys. look at our temperatures, 51 to 56. total sunshine at noon.

we'll stay in the 60s at the coast. temperatures below average and you'll need that light jacket this evening, 59 to 64 already at 7:00. let's get an update with alexis. >> it's friday. we're expecting friday light traffic. construction is slowing you down in a couple areas. southbound 13 also a full closure overnight between moraga through the montclair stretch and we should have that wrapped up within about 30 mi detoured surface streets and that's not causing any major delays. a quick check outside, san jose at 880 and some very light volumes at 4:31 in the morning. a look at drive times up next. this morning hurricane maria regaining some of its strength as the storm moves past the dominican republic into the caribbean sea and there is help on the way to puerto rico this morning. the island's president says that

it is obliterated. fema and the u.s. military are flying in generators, water, food, and temporary shellers. american airlines plans to fly in. the damage is so extensive it could take months to get back to normal. >> reporter: maria is gaining strength and packing winds up to 125 miles per hour. it's now hitting turks and caicos in the bahamas after causing widespread damage in the dominican republic. in the resort town of punta cana locals banded together to remove palm trees. in puerto rico the damage is catastrophic, homes are flooded, the entire island is without power, and millions of trees are obliterated along the storm's path. >> now that we're south of town

seeing damage that looks like a tornado came through. this is the path of the eye when it came through. >> reporter: desperate residents are lining up for water that's being trucked in. >> we need light, we need water. >> reporter: and days after the storm surge crews are working around the clock. this video showing three people rescued from an overturned boat. the navy is helping evacuees on st. croix. the only electricity is from generators. the message from the governor is we need help. apple's new products go on sale with one big exception. >> it appears that may be putting a dent in early sales of the iphone 8. matt keller is live for us in palo alto. >> reporter: good morning. you will not be getting an iphone x this morning. that is not happening today. a lot of things are different from the normal apple events

with the new phones coming out. there is no screen in front of the store, so you can see the employees setting up all the iphone 8s on their display cases. another thing i noticed there is no big, long line. in fact, we only have one person in line and there is his chair sitting right there and there is noah marriott from palo alto waiting for his iphone 8. he reordered it. he's been here since last night. he's the first and last person in line. it appears the iphone 8 won't be that popular. preorders for the iphone 8 are down significantly compared to iphone 7. one review called it a fairly igrastrwht iphone 7. apple is releasing its newest version of the apple watch which is the first withstandalone cellular capability, you can get phone calls and text without it ginbe in iphone. you can guarantee this line will

be longer for the iphone x when it comes out on november 3rd. matt keller, abc 7 news. >> one dedicated apple fan. thank you, matt. lieutenant governor newsom and bernie sanders will be speaking at the convention in san francisco. newsom will discuss convention delegates. he was endorsed in 2018. senator sanders is the headliner and he will speak at 1:00 p.m. his appearance comes a week after the national medicare for all legislation. sanders will be the guest of honor at city college of san francisco's ocean campus at 3:30 p.m. sanders endorsed city college's free tuition program before the last presidential election. a last-minute settlement will stop a trial involving the deadly asiana plane crash. a surgical dentist sued claiming she could not work because of an injury suffered in the crash. asiana was challenging the severity of her injury. jury selection was supposed to

begin today but the bay area news group reports both sides reached an agreement yesterday. the deal settles the final claim by the more than 300 people onboard that flight. san francisco police arrested one of their own officers following an internal affairs probe. an officer faces two misdemeanor charges, one for having false license plate stickers and another for filing a false police report. a santa cruz doctor and two nurses accused of molesting children face new charges this morning. the 32 additional counts stem from new video investigators say shows them abusing three children. a judge increased bail to $15 million for dr. james kohut, rashel brandon and emily joy stephens. kohut worked at dominican hospital and surgery center. he's accused of luring women with intentions to molest their children. the christopher columbus statue in san jose city hall was

vandalized the day after city leaders agreed to remove it. this is the statue before someone poured red and black paint all over it. city council committee decided a group start add petition to get it removed saying columbus committed genocide on native americans. the warriors open training camp tomorrow in downtown oakland. but with a new season coming many are wondering if they will celebrate their nba championship at the white house. warriors head coach steve kerr tells our sister network espn no decision has been made. the warriors have not been invited yet by the trump administration, but it's believed an invitation will be extended if the team decides to attend as a group. last month kevin durant said he didn't want to celebrate the title with president trump because he does not respect the man in office. let's get the latest on maria as it is lashing out at the turks and caicos with hurricane force winds over just

about all of the 40 islands of that nation. let's take a look. yeah, it did definitely increase as we talked about it would. winds up to 125 miles an hour and it's slowing down a little bit. it's moving to the northwest at 7 miles an hour. the track is still very favorable for the united states. it makes more of a northerly jog and then a little bit of a northeasterly jog as it tries to head towards bermuda and then it takes another northwesterly jog. it's doing its best right now to miss the united states and miss bermuda and shoot that gap at least through wednesday. after that we'll have to keep an eye on the northeast. back here at home it's 51 in west portal, district 52. most of us about 54 to 57 in san francisco. there's some fog lurking along the coast. don't see it right now at the golden gate but that could change. light breeze fz you're on the bay, becoming sunny at our beaches with light breezes and exercising will be another mild day. in fact, a look at your micro climate temperatures and the rest of the weekend coming up. here's alexis.

so far, so good for the friday morning commute. we're looking at a little stack-up here in the cash lanes for the bay bridge toll plaza and our drive times are looking great, too. feeling friday light. 580 tracy to castro valley in the green at 39 minutes. highway 85 to the san jose airport wide open at 12. northbound 280 highway 1 to san francisco looking good at ten minutes. we do have some overnight road work oakland. we'll head back there at 4:50. the legendary mavericks surf contest hits another roadblock. why it may not be coming back anytime soon. >> it's just an amazing experience, and he's so sweet, so nice. >> you just never know who is going to find your phone. an east bay family star struck after a sports superstar helps them out. them out. gatorade throws

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part of a bankruptcy proceeding. the wsl must decide how it will proceed. the board says it does not plan to revisit the transfer. the east bay seismic safety concerns may result in changes at lafayette reservoir. experts are worried about the concrete tower that rises out of the water. it directs controlled flows. the state is now concerned that in a strong earthquake that might topple or collapse. a broken tower could cause a leak sending water down a creek through lafayette. it could cost millions for an expedited fix. a memorial to the victims of the ghost ship fire is going up in oakland. abc 7 news is at the museum as an artist worked on a sculpture that is a tribute to a dear friend. this is an ongoing work. some people who have seen it have been moved to leave their own tribute to victims. they are being added to the

piece. the sculpture is part of the upcoming exhibit which opens october 18. gatorade has agreed to mott make disparaging comments about water. allegations in a cell phone game featuring sprinter usain bolt. users would refuel bolt with gatorade after being told to keep your performance level high. gatorade paid $300,000 in the settlement and the game is no longer available. a sports legend returns a lost cell phone he found after lost cell phone he found after sunday's raiders game. elissa harrington has the story. >> never thought they'd meet rickey henderson, a

player they cheered for at a's games when they were kids growing up in theast bay. but a twist e of fate brought tm together sunday. herrera was leaving when anthony realized he lost his phone. jessica called it and a man answered. >> he just said hello. hey, you have my phone. i'm willing to meet you anywhere. >> reporter: the man said he was rickey henderson. rickey was at the game to light the al davis memorial torch but jessica assumed it was someone who shared the same name. they agreed to meet in the sports center parking lot where highway 13 and 24 meet. >> all after sudden this car comes up and a black escalade, fancy, fancy car, and i was like, oh, my god, that's really him! and we just started, oh, my goodness. it was such an amazing moment. >> reporter: anthony told me over the phone he could not believe the superstar went out of his way to help aas a good . >> reporter: rickey found the phone on his bumper, returned it, took pictures and signed

autographs. >> like an idol growing up. i played baseball. everybody wants to steal bases and being like rickey. doing a rickey was something growing up in the '80s. >> reporter: i was told rickey thought the herreras were great people. elissa inrrha >> that's a fun story. >> yeah. >> i wonder why the phone was on his bumper? >> interesting. who knows? mike? >> just rickey being rickey. >> phones being phones. >> hi, everybody. let' t tskal weekend we have a lot of activities we'll have pristine weather for it. here is a look from our roof cam. the flags on the ferry building unfurled a little bit. a slight breeze but not nearly as aggressive as it was yesterday and a lot of sunshine again today. temperatures will bounce back this weekend and look at that, yes, i know, autumn begins today but we have a heat wave possible

next week. it always happens in october. here's a look at some snow though. how about up in the sierra another 1 to 3 inches possible. snow levels down to 6,500 feet. we'll talk to alexis about any issues in just a second. talk about our forecast. temperatures don't look much different than yesterday and they won't be so i hope you liked yesterday. 63 in half moon bay. oakland 69. everybody else about 7076 degrees. tonight almost as chilly as this morning. 49 in santa rosa. we'll have some 40s in the san ramone valley. everybody else about 50 to 56 degrees. you ca snee 48. let's step through my seven-day forecast. tomorrow near 70 at the coast. mid-70s to mid-80s around the bay and inland. a little bitmeitarer bit warmer then check out tuesday and wednesday. some mid-70s at the coast. upper 80s around the bay and mid-90s inland. that's an offshore breeze. that's how you get that

coolness -- i should say that warmth all the way to the coast. remember, fog fest is this weekend, also, in pacifica. probably no fog sunday. let's talk about the sierra. some snow yesterday. more snow today. >> we don't have any current chain controls. yesterday the first chain controls of the season and we had, wouldn't you know it, a pretty big crash on 80 as well. it takes folks time to get used to driving in those conditions again. nothing happening if you are just about to head out right now. but definitely use some caution a quick check of our driving conditions around the bay area. we do have one slow spot this morning and that is for some overnight construction on southbound 880. they're still working on that 23rd avenue overpass so all lanes were blocked between 23rd and 29th. supposed to be until 5:00 this morning, that backup starting to thin out a bit. so i'm guessing they're pic thatp rig nowngki if you want to avoid that stick to 580 instead.

southbound 680, no delays. friday light volumes. we'll look at mass transit up next. they came, they swung, and every single one of them failed. >> one got really close, though. the oakland a's gave 100 lucky fans a chance to swing for the fences at the oakland coliseum yesterday. anyone who could hit a homer went home with a pair of season tickets. no one pulled it off but one fan did very well. >> i definitely thought it was out. i was getting ready to make my trip around the bases. i guess the wind pushed me back a little bit. >> coming off his bat was different than everybody else's. you could tell when he gotsn i a little, knew what was coming, and he delivered. >> i know they haven't played in a while so you don't know what you're going to get. i learned something today, you >>eaid to heck with the ts wooden bats, bring your own.

let's get someone to actually d? >> maybe that's a baseball term? >> i was shamed off my baseball team in sixth grade so i don't know the term. nicholas stewart of san jose hit the ball 360 feet, so the a's gave him the grand prize anyway. >> give it to all of them! >> tasting himself. whatever that means. >> okay. 4:50 in the morning. forget spf. the questionable advice coming from tom brady about avoiding sun burns. >> hollywood has a sign. so does south san francisco and now a bay area hillside is getting one,o. what makes thisto one a bit different. right now this morning's "tech bites." in today's "tech bites" it's iphone 8 day. >> the new device hits the market six weeks before the iphone x, a move many experts say could hurt sales. an australian man was psyched for today's release waiting in line 11s to theirst payson t do get his hands on that phone. there he is celebrating in sydney. >> and you can use

instagram. >> they can be added during or before. instagram says it could take a couple weeks for the upgrade to be available around the world. and porsche is offering style and speed, but you can't take it on the road. >> it's the first ever porsche super yacht. the high-tech all aluminum vessel with two electric motors has four cabins and a spa pool. has four cabins and a spa pool. only seven will

happening today a group of san francisco school kids will help unveil the city's first official sign. the artist who created it found her inspirtion in an existing tribute to graffiti artist. >> and i thought, well, why can't we echo the word and have up the hill? >> the center for the arts commissioned the art installation. kids from martin luther king middle school helped make the letters. >> it was really cool. i got to screw in the mini mirrors that reflect the sunshine. >> the kids will take part in the public unveiling ceremony at 11:00 this morning at the farmers market. the d.r.e.a.m. sculpture will be up for at least two years. happening today competitive practices will be held at lake merritt in oakland -- >> this is sped up, right? no? >> this is the international festival. excuse me now? >> is this sped up or real? >> no. >> wow. look at them go. >> that's why it's competitive.

yeah. tomorrow and sunday thousands of paddlers will be on the water competing in the 40-foot dragon boats. it's the second year the competition will be held on lake merritt. it runs from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. >> holy moly, mike. >> impressive. >> very impressive. >> twitch fibers there. not me on the weekend. hi, everybody. we've been joking with pacifica having fog fest at the time of the year it's not really foggy. it's more than just promoting the fog but celebrating the community, raises funds for local community groups as well as the gift for pacifica funds. they've raised over $1 million. 54 and 59 tomorrow. 55 and 73 sunday. a couple games to talk about. rangeers in town to take the a's 7:05 first pitch. 62 and 60. usc at cal tomorrow, total sunshine. sun burn factor, high 71 to 75 of the later on down on the farm

at 7:30 ucla coming to stanford 68 and 62. have fun. here's alexis. >> so far so good this morning on the roads. here's a live look at the richmond side of the san rafael bridge. some extremely light volume so far this morning and then a quick reminder for the weekend the warm springs b.a.r.t. station fully closed this weekend and next weekend. that is for work on the silicon valley b.a.r.t. extension. there will be a free bus that will pick you up and take to you fremont station but that could add 20 to 30 minutes. head to fremont instead. next traffic update at 5:00. >> thanks, alexis. sunscreen? who needs it? >> not tom brady. he says he believes he rarely gets sun burned because he drinks gwoallo tns of water a day. the 40-year-old brady says he got sun burned a lot growing up in san mateo and then he started hydratinging and, poof, no sun burns. raising eyebrows from the medical

community. i can't -- it's hard for me to read this and not be distracted by the hat. the centers for disease control says there is no proof drinking water can in any way help prevent sun burn, so they recommend wearing sunscreen. >> yeah. >> because that's how it works. >> right. my mom told me to wear spf. >> what is he talking about? >> it's the hat. >> it's that pompom. >> that hat is shielding hayes face. next at 5:00 a.m., berkeley braces for free speech week at cal. >> what the city is asking residents to do when controversial speakers hit the campus. and breaking news on the future of uber overseas, you definitely won't see prince harry in an uber, but you might not be able to hop in one either. i'll explain. and thousands of political ads are part of the russia ads are part of the russia investig

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good-bye, summer. fall officially starts later today. gonior m so ep tngtember 22nd. >> what's weird is mike's forecast, the seven day, it gets hot again. >> we have a nice cold spell, everybody gets excited for the seasons. people start drinking their pumpkin spice lattes. >> naturally. >> and it gets hot again. what's going on? got a heat wave coming. hi, everybody. a look at live doppler 7. you can see a little breezy. sfo 13 miles an hour, concord and fairfield 10. that's going to be the case today as high pressure takes over. we're going to have, look at that, hardly any clouds out there on the exploratorium camera and temperatures running from 51 to 56 this mornin