meteorologist mike nicco has been on a streak recently. >> punxsutawney who? >> not here. >> six more weeks of what? let's talk about what's going on. places in the coast and san francisco feeling like sun while the rest of us are enjoying the spring and some of the pollen coming with it. let's focus and transition into my 12-hour day planner which shows 59 to 55 degrees this morning. absolutely gorgeous there. by 4:00 a little cooler at the coast, 64. still 70s for the rest of us. a delightful evening. avoid oakland and 880 if you can. a sig alert northbound with the two left lanes blocked and an overturned vehicle and southbound is also slow past the scene due to debris in lanes. we'll zoom in and show you the

traffic volume and it is just bumper to bumper. if you can imagine that long stretch so 580 would be a great alternate. let's head to san jose where we've had an accident there for a little while now. north 101 before tully. speeds are very slow. we'll see the slow traffic backed past the capital expressway heading past 880 and on in the northbound direction. we are tracking breaking news in san jose. right now police there handling multiple investigations. it has been a busy morning for them. our team has made this map to make it easy to see how close they are. a double shooting at a denny's.

the second we see police activity at 9th and keyes. multiple officers on scene. matt? >> reporter: good morning, jessica. i just got some new information since i last saw you about a half hour ago. i talked with an owner of a bakery across the street from the car wash and he told me officers said this is a homicide that they are investigating. officer are now asking for the surveillance video from when the shooting took place from his camera. this is a large scene. roads around this area are blocked off. they also have humboldt street blocked off next to spartan stadium in between 8th and 10th streets. an officer told me they did a car stop there. two people were killed in another shooting. multiple calls of shots fired on 1st street and alma avenue around 10:50.

officers found a male and female with at least one gunshot wound each. they both died at the scene. traffic was blocked off. we're told that is now open. here on keyes street a lot of traffic in the area. we're about a half mile away from happy hollow park and traffic delays in this area during this investigation. you expect san jose police to be out here a few more hours. reporting live, matt keller, abc 7 news. the message this morning do not look at your 401(k) and do not panic. >> but do be aware that futures show we could be in for another stock market drop this morning at the opening bell, and we're going to see that in a few minutes. the dow saw its biggest single day decline yesterday. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live for us in the financial district and will help us put this into perspective. amy? >> reporter: hi, reggie. all the experts are saying stay calm, just ride out this storm. analysts are saying that the market -- they don't consider this a crash.

the market has been too hot for too long. it was at a pace unsustainable. this is just the market self-correcting. but watching the dow drop 1,175 points can be upsetting. so this could be a good time to meet with your adviser about your risks and rewards. >> do you work with the financial planner, make sure they're doing some income and risk modeling for you. figure out exactly how much risk you can take because investments are a lot like a roller coaster and people get pretty nauseous. >> reporter: analysts say this does present a good opportunity to buy. one expert we spoke to suggested looking at consumer staples like costco and procter & gamble. keep that long view. don't let the headlines sway you. focus on your long-term plan. i have been checking twitter to see if the president has had anything to say this morning about the market. he has tweeted a couple times this morning but nothing yet about the stock market.

live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. thank you, amy. the opening bell happens in less than a half hour. we'll bring it to you live. we'll send out updates on our abc 7 news app so download that right now. it is free and make sure you sign up for push alerts -- see, it's got me shook. stock market updates will happen throughout the day. >> it will go straight to your phone. a housing workshop for victims of the north bay fires. the sonoma county board of supervisors is hosting the day long event to provide information on housing after the fires destroyed thousands of homes. it starts this morning at 9:15 a.m. and goes until 5:00 p.m. at the board of supervisors chambers in santa rosa. if you can't make it, though, and this is important, you can still provide feedback and watch the workshop online. you will find a link for that on our website, abc7news.com. this week marks four months since the start of the north bay wildfires. sky 7 flying over one of the most damaged areas yesterday to see what is happening now.

this is what is left of the journey's end mobile home park. two people died here. 43 homes survived the fires, but people are still locked out by red tags and an ongoing hazmat cleanup. there's a huge outpouring of support for a paralyze the pleasant hill wrestler. a sophomore at college park high suffered a spinal cord injury during a match. there was a fund-raiser for joseph yesterday. more than 500 people showed up including wrestlers from the area. >> we all felt pretty bad. it was a freak accident. there's nothing we could have done. we're here to support. >> the goal is to raise money to help cover joseph's medical costs and buy a lowered floor mobility van to accommodate his wheelcha wheelchair. a go fund me campaign has raised nearly $200,000. joseph's grandmother says he is making progress at the colorado facility where he's being treated. she says he can now talk and has

feeling in his feet. >> we are just wishing him all the best. 6:07 now and we want to know what you think this morning. our poll is up live at the bottom of your screen. you can see it asking you if you think lottery winners should be able to remain anonymos. >> and you have made your feelings clear. look at those numbers. 94% to 6% that they should be allowed to remain anonymous. we're asking because a woman won a half billion dollars in the lottery, and she is suing to keep her identity private. we'll update those results to see how you feel. >> vote right now. bay area traffic is bad but how does it measure up to the rest of the country? what about the rest of the world? we may not be as bad off as we think. >> and neither is the pollen so far even though things seem to be blooming every day where our tree pollen is moderate, weed and grass pollen is low. watch out for the uv index. it's moderate and will be higher it's moderate and will be higher if at stanford health care, it's moderate and will be higher if we can now repair complex aortic aneurysms

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hi, we're coming up on 6:11 on this tuesday morning. check out the temperatures at the coast. pacifica, 60. daly city, 62. half moon bay, 63.

menlo park at 43. everybody else from belmont up to san bruno low to mid-50s. the other side of the bay mid-to upper 40s. 55 in san jose. mid-40s in san ramone and concord. low 50s around napa and san rafael. here is a look at our activity planner. uv index moderate. breezy in the hills if you're doing a little exercise. a light chop on the bay. here you go. another day closer to no rain. all seven days. still showing nothing. there are some big changes in the temperature coming. i'll see you in a few minutes. here is sue with the commute. better news now all the way around for our earlier problems so let's first check back with the san mateo bridge approach. an accident at the toll plaza blocking a couple of lanes. that's been cleared. we still have a major backup back to 880. on the span things look good. up to oakland better news. northbound 880 near 23rd. an accident just cleared. sig alert lifted.

very slow traffic still remains we'll zoom in with our 3d look on our maps and super slow heading northbound. we were backed up to the coliseum. it looks like that should be recovering but for now it's still very slow. i would suggest 580 for the next little bit and we'll check on another accident in san jose and how that's affecting your drive on 101 in just a few. breaking news, a tsunami warning going out for the east coast right now. jessica is at the live desk with why it was a false alarm. the super bowl commercial a hit with the ocean spray cranberry juice cocktail tastes real good and it's packed with powerful cranberry nutrients that can help your body defend against certain infections. i'll be your body on cranberry juice! bring it on, bad stuff! still healthy.

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welcome back. there is no tsunami warning for anywhere in the united states right now, and why am i telling that you? several false alerts went out from the national weather service this morning on smart phones along the east coast within just the last hour. accuweather saying this. the national weather service tsunami warning this morning was a test. there is no tsunami warning in effect for the east coast of the united states. and look at this. even all the way north in maine we're seeing reports of people receiving erroneous tsunami alerts. there is no threat to maine. no one here in california or the west coast got that false alert. the story actually still developing right now. we don't know yet what led to

this error and, of course, this follows the false missile alert in hawaii. we're trying to get to the bottom of it. >> jessica, thank you. 6:16 now. it is now up to president trump to release a classified democratic document to the public. that document is the democratic rebuttal to a gop memo on the russia investigation. the house intelligence committee voted unanimously to make the memo public yesterday. the president has five days to sign off on it. bay area congressmen and intelligence committee member eric swallow says the democrats had to respond. >> we believe what the republicans did last week with their false memo was so poisonous the only antidote would be to give the public the full picture. >> a couple of developments with the russia investigation, too. "the new york times" is reporting that president trump's lawyer does not want him to meet with special counsel robert mueller. former white house strategist steve bannon was supposed to testify yesterday. reports say that has been delayed. new at 6:00, did amazon drop

a big clue as to where its next headquarters will be located? >> according to internet speculation the answer is yes. the twitter verse thinks the hint was in a super bowl commercial. listen very carefully to this. >> in austin it's 60 degrees -- >> alexa? >> in austin -- >> why austin? why austin? the internet is wondering. not long after the spot aired people on twitter began speculating it was austin, texas, that would be home to the next headquarters. austin is one of the cities amazon says is still in the running. the company has already thrown cold water on the rumor saying they are totally unrelated. >> okay. people are reading into this too much. >> i love this ad. this is my favorite. >> it was really good. >> i liked the grilled cheese part with gordon ramsay. >> it's in the name. >> let's talk about some record warmth once again. should we? shall we? we have to because that's what's in the forecast.

hi, everybody. the first signs of a warm day unfolding in the south bay as we look at san jose and 280 at 17. brighter, drier, and warm again this afternoon. that's my first accuweather highlight. calm, clear, and cooler tonight. i have a change in our weekend plans at least weatherwise. two jet streams and that is what's steering all the storms right around as we have strong high pressure over the top of us and that offshore flow will bring warmth to the coast. 17 at half moon bay. 76 in san francisco. 75 in oakland. san mateo, some of the cool spots. the rest of us are in the upper 70s to almost 80 in some neighborhood inland. a look at the south bay, 49 this morning. look at that, 20 degrees warmer by noon. 69. 76 at 4:00. 64 at 7:00. let's look at your high temperatures, 76 in milpitas. 79 degrees. all right, up in the north bay we have 46 to 71. look at that jump. 35 degrees. 25 degrees, excuse me, by noon.

and then 77 at 4:00. 59 at 7:00. let's take a look at temperatures. clover dale possibly. 78 today in napa and novato. lows tonight, a lot of mid to upper 40s in most neighborhoods. some 50s to low 50s around oakland, san mateo. here is a look at my seven-day forecast. you'll see temperatures pretty steady through friday. and then an inside slider that will bring snow showers to the sierra will drop our temperatures back into the low to mid-60s by monday. sue? good morning. and an earlier accident before the toll plaza cleared. now look at the brake lights across the entire span. filling in since the accident out of lanes. near 23rd, that accident cleared but the damage done. southbound is improving but northbound 880 still very slow back from the coliseum. it should be recovering shortly. if you can wait a few more

minutes to get on 580 or 880 you're in good luck. currently we have this accident still blocking a lane north 101 near -- pardon me, near tully, after tully and 13th street and that is slowing things. they hope to get that out of lanes. it is blocking the right lane, lane number four. traffic backed up to the capital expressway. we'll come back and take a look at your toll plaza commute in a few minutes from the bay bridge. sue, bay area traffic is the worst. actually, it's not. for the sixth year in a row the most congested city is los angeles. this according to a new report out this morning from traffic analytics firm. now drivers in l.a. spend 102 hours stuck in traffic last year. new yorkers spent 91 hours battling congestion followed by the rest of us here in the bay area. san francisco in particular, 79 hours.

atlanta and miami round out the top five u.s. cities with the worst traffic. 79 hours is still nothing to sneeze at. right now go to what you think about the lottery lawsuit. the $560 million powerball winner is suing to remain anonymous and this is the question, do you think that lottery winners should be able to remain anonymous? you vote yes or no. lottery officials claim she gave up her right to do that after signing the back of the ticket and that in the small print it released the owner's right to anonymity. the winner says she didn't read the fine print and only signed the back because the lottery website told her to do so. and that raises the question. go to abc7news.com/vote and vote. we are tabulating the results right now and you are speaking, 95% of you saying, yes, you should be able to remain anonymous. >> lottery officials say you can avoid this -- she could have avoided this by signing not her

name but signing the name of a trust. first you have to set up a trust, contact somebody. you can't just sign it right away. now you know the next time you win the lottery. >> that fine print can get you in trouble. how people in san francisco feel about those red transit only lanes. and a training exercise turns into a real-life operation. the whole thing was caught on camera. first, let's check in with a look at what's ahead on "good morning america." good morning. coming up on "gma" we'll give you some ideas what you can do with your money as the dow experiences its largest single day drop in history. plus, the man at the center of the gop memo, carter page, joins us live in our studio this morning as the russia inve

check out the temperatures, notice the lack of asterisks. only san jose's 78 is a record high temperature. gives you an idea how warm it was several years ago in the 80s for record highs. that's nothing to sneeze at, reggie. >> thanks, mike. an aircrew at the sheriff's office was in the right place at the right time. they were in the middle of a training rescue when they

spotted something unusual down below, a calf that got its head stuck in a tree. they landed nearby. you can see the calf couldn't get out so they broke the stump away to set the calf back running again. it's unclear how long the animal had been there, but the crew said it looked like it had been a while. turns out one of the best counties to live in in the u.s. is right here in the bay area. according to the website marin county ranks number nine. education, poverty rate, life expectancy determine the ranking. a typical household earns just over $100,000 a year. only about 8% of the population lives below the poverty line. life expectancy 83 years. how caltrain makes it easier to buy tickets. >> you can now text 911. there are some major rules, though, you need to know about. plus, the stock market opens in just minutes. it could be another rough day, i'll have an update on how the dow is doing moments

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in history. >> now to a special report with george stephanopoulos. we are coming on the air with the opening bell on wall street. there it is. the dow coming off two tough days, 1,175-point drop yesterday on top of 666 points on friday as you see right there the dow down again starting this morning. the third day in a row. wiped out all the gains for the last year. i'm here for the first month of the year. and rebecca jarvis, business correspondent, last year the markets down more than 500 points. officially down 10% from its high. they call this a correction. >> exactly, george. correction territory means after a long upward trajectory, which we have now been on for many, many years, after a long upward trajectory, the dow now down more than 10%. that is in the near term. and oftentimes wall street is looking for something like a correction, george, to say it's safe to get back into the market. that's what traders look at it as.

for the long-term investor, people who have a 401(k), that nest egg, it's all about thinking over the long term. >> let's put this into context. the dow coming off a powerful run for many years. >> nine years essentially, george. if you look at the last nine years since march of 2009, the markets have been on an upward trajectory about 160% higher since january of 2009. in just the last year even after all of the sell-off we've seen in recent days, in just the last year stocks are still over the full year up about 20%. in the last couple of weeks so far this year stocks are now negative. but even here at 23,854 points, we're back to basically where stocks were late in 2017. you're basically seeing the marks shave off about three months of work. >> in part the result of a strong economy. we'll be watching this all day long. you'll be back for the west coast edition of "gma" and for

you at home you can get breaking news alerts by downloading our app. all right. that was a special report you were just watching. a lot of people watching the stock market this morning, of course, after that huge plunge we saw yesterday and it looks like we may be seeing a repeat today as well. >> and rebecca jarvis made a good point when you look at the percentages of what we're down -- >> what happened over the last nine years. >> look at what happened. it's a percentage overall. we're so high up the percentage is not going as far down as most of us feared when we saw the raw numbers. there's no time to panic. >> we'll keep tracking that for you. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. here is meteorologist mike nicco. let's talk about our weather which is going to stay very even

keeled the next couple of days, near record high temperatures. it all starts with a dry live doppler 7. a look at my 12-hour accuweather planner. 47 to 53. breezes keeping temperatures all over the place. shelter valley is the coolest. now by noon, 67 to 71 at the coast. 70 to 76 for the dry air and total sunshine at 4:00. still a gorgeous evening, 60 to 63. let's see what sue is watching for your morning commute. updating a couple of problem spots, our traffic maps. right now we have a gentleman sitting in the fast lane in the car banging his head against the seat so something strange happening there. fortunately it's not really slowing their other drive. chp is en route to make sure that person is okay. an earlier accident heading to the toll plaza of the san mateo bridge cleared but traffic is still bumper to bumper heading to the tolls from 880. and speaking of 880 another accident just cleared about 20 minutes ago north at 23rd.

but still the damage is done there with very slow traffic heading northbound from the coliseum making it just a grind. if you'd like a better route 580. a quick look to the south bay where we had an accident, 101 in the northbound direction. this one near 13th street that is still blocking lane number four and traffic is backed up beyond the capital expressway here in san jose. still following breaking news in san jose. police handling two investigations there this morning, just one mile apart. the first one a double shooting at 1st street and east alma avenue happened at a denny's. the other incident was at 9th and keyes which is where we find abc 7 news reporter matt keller with the newest information. matt? >> reporter: good morning, jessica. i just spoke with the bakery owner of the bakery that sits on the other side of this crime scene tape here on keyes street,

across the street from the car wash. he says officers told him this is a homicide and they're asking him for the video from the surveillance camera at the time of the shooting. we have new video we just shot in the past 20 minutes. these detectives walked up about a block from the main crime scene on 9th street and keyes to humboldt street next to the spartan stadium complex to check out this car. we were told earlier this was the scene of a car stop after the homicide. no word if this is the suspect's vehicle or how it is involved in the case. the focus for investigators and the crime scene unit has been near the car wash at 9th street and keyes street. not too far from here two people were killed. police got multiple calls of shots fired. officers found a male and female with at least one gunshot wound each. they both died at the scene. here at the scene on keyes street, this is a busy area for traffic. the investigation has only been taking place for about two hours. no word on when they expect to

finish up and open up all these roads. reporting live in san jose, matt keller, abc 7 news. and now we do want to get back to the stock market plunge. the dow is already plunging this morning. this morning we're down about 10%. so what does this mean for your 401(k)? serena marshall in washington will help us understand this. >> reporter: good morning. another tough day on wall street but analysts and the white house caution it's part of the ups and downs of the markets. it was the single biggest one-day drop in history. anxious traders as the dow plummeted before rebounding and ending the day still down more than 1,100 points. but before you go racing to make changes to your 401(k), that big drop isn't signaling another great recession. >> the stock market has gone too far too fast. it is just appropriate to hit the reset button. if we look at the results from

last year, they're way above the normal historic averages. >> reporter: those historic highs, wage growth and job gains, a signal for the federal reserve to hike interest rates leading investors to fear a correction. the white house is downplaying the drop as typical market seesaw. >> today's sell-off represents the ebb and flow of our stock markets. >> reporter: even with those drops, one thing to keep in mind, the long term. it's not about trying to time the market. it's likely today will bring another rocky opening with the dow futures way down. analysts say before acting to take a deep breath and remember the drop was expected given those record highs. serena marshall, abc news, washington. and now we want to get you a real-time update from our live desk. a look at the big board right now. you can see it's down about 71 points. that's only at 0.2% so that's

leveled out since what we saw about seven, eight minutes ago when the dow first opened this morning. it went down to about 260 points and now we're only down about 60 points so that's a leveling out. we're going to see if the sell-off continues today again on wall street as a whole or if things start to rebound as we are starting to see right now, of course, all of those markets across the world have followed suit. we mentioned the asian markets were down overnight as well, and we're going to track this throughout the day, sending out breaking market developments. you need to enable your push alerts and you'll get the notifications as they happen. >> jessica, thank you. on to other local news, there was a shooting near the pittsburg station just before 10:00 last night. the victim was driving his car when he was shot. he crashed into a pole in south wood drive. police were able to get hem out.

no word on his condition or potential suspects. santa clara county supervisors expected to put a petition to recall the judge in the brock turner case on the june ballot. the recall campaign against judge aaron perskey gathered almost 100,000 signatures, enough to qualify for the ballot. perskey sentenced the swimmer to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus. election code requires the petition be put on the ballot so today's is a formality. check out what the breezes did to our temperatures overnight. we're 13 degrees warmer at half moon bay. 14 in livermore. 17 in fairfield. even 10 in napa. 8 in palo alto. where does that put us? in the south bay, from 45 in alum rock, same thing in saratoga. cambria park, 60. 55 in san jose. 48 right now in newark to 60 in danville and fairfield.

55 in san francisco. the same thing in napa. look at the bottom. 46 degrees. looks like a lot of traffic out there this morning. let's talk about your commute planner not seeing fog, no clouds. sunshine definitely will have the glasses. breezy in the hills. if you're driving and taking mass transit and you want the polarized sunglasses on the bay so it reduces the glare off the water. dress the kids for about 52 to 60. one of those days where make sure they bring the hoodie home. look at these temperatures by 11:00. 66 to 67. by the time they're finished with school, 66 at the coast but mid-70s around the bay and inland. i'll tell you how much longer this record-setting temperatures will last. let's see what sue is watching. >> we'll check now. yes, metering lights are on. typical for your morning drive. the car-poolers are getting by just fine as you can see. if your commute is from hercules into the city or any points,

there's urbaner to see what your commute will be. you can gauge it at about 40 minutes into san francisco. most of that is delayed at the toll plaza there. speaking of toll plazas, an earlier accident is long gone now but still very slow approaching the toll plaza from 880 and that earlier accident north 880 near 23rd still has things very slow along the nasty nimitz and we're heading down to san jose where there was an accident northbound 101 near 13th. that is still partially blocking a lane there and you can see your northbound 101 commute is really a grind. you can try to take 87 but that looks bad, too. 280 over there looks better. if you have to stay on 101 and give yourself an extra 20 to 30 minutes this morning. >> sue, thank you. happening today financial relief could be coming for sonoma county residents impacted by the fires. dorito drama. now the company is responding to

backlash. a look at the golden gate bridge behind us. first a look at what's coming up at 9:00. good morning. >> hello there. >> coming up we're hanging in the bahamas. >>

welcome back. let's take a look around the state where spring is everywhere from 67 in san diego to 75 in l.a. 87 palm springs. low to mid-70s through the

central valley. 75 in yosemite. we talked about down to 24% of average, 16% of the yearly average which goes through april 1st. a look at heavenly. let's throw the seven-day forecast on there. what's different today, that little clipper system. it was a dry cold front yesterday. now it's gaining moisture. hopefully it will crank out a couple inches over the weekend. quickly an update here on wall street and the new york stock exchange this morning. look at this. we have crossed over into the green, up 28 points right now. in fact, i've seen it even a little bit higher up 0.2%. it's been hovering there. that's good news. a little bit of a rally this morning. it opened low at negative 260 points. it's been hovering in that range. we are going to track wall street all day long as is everyone else, watching wall street to see if we get that rebound today.

natasha, reggie, back to you. all right. do not look at your 401(k) and do not panic yet. >> we're seeing a roller coaster on wall street. amy hollyfield live in san francisco's financial district. amy? >> reporter: reggie, just stay calm. that's what all the analysts are telling us saying we can get through this. yes, it was difficult to watch it drop yesterday. 1,175 points, but financial analysts say they do not consider this a crash. experts are saying there's no need to panic or sell. just stay focused on your long-term strategy. don't abandon that. the hot economy was possibly a little too hot and needed to cool down a bit. >> feel like it's a short-term market correction that is happening, and it's going to provide an opportunity for people that maybe didn't quite get in and missed the boat now are going to have an opportunity to invest. >> reporter: he says consider buying right now especially

consumer staples. he suggests costco and procter & gamble. and don't lose perspective. we have been watching twitter to see if president trump had anything to say about the market. in the past he has bragged about how well the stock market has been doing. so far nothing from the president about the current situation. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. 6:47 now. now your morning money report. an investigation into how equifax allowed hackers to steal personal data of millions of americans is on hold now. >> reuters reports the head of the consumer financial protectin bureau has not ordered subpoenas or asked for testimony from executives. the bureau has also put plans to test how equifax puts data on hold. >> head of lululemon resigned over misconduct. the ceo says he fell short of the company's standards but lululemon did not go into specifics. in a statement the company says

they expect employees to carry themselves with, quote, the highest level of integrity and . sonoma supervisors will consider a plan to give county workers who lost their homes in the october wildfires a financial boost. >> the idea is to let them cash out of unused vacation time. the fire damaged homes of 156 employees. a lump sum payment is a one-time only deal. workers would have to keep at least 40 hours of vacation time on the books. >> the alameda county sheriff's office has launched text to 911 to encourage people to call if they can and text if they can't. it does come with some important limitations you should know about. text to 911 is in its first phase and so that means if you text from a location that is close to a freeway, the message is going to be received by the chp and then the chp has to route that text to the appropriate agency and that's going to cause a delay. dispatchers do say there are

times when texting 911 would have made a difference in a call and they give some examples here. >> her drunk father was trying to get into the room where i had her and her sister in a closet. >> it will be a good thing to make that available for the speech impaired, deaf, hard of hearing community. >> richmond, santa clara, sunnyvale and golden gate division also have text to 911. spacex launching arguably its most daring mission to date. when the falcon heavy rocket takes off on its first test flight. it is scheduled this afternoon with a cherry red tesla roadster inside. the rocket is larger than anything launched since the saturn five mission nasa used for the apollo moon landings. the goal to orbit mars. it is elon musk's longtime goal. >> it's about believing in the future and thinking the future rather than the past. i can't think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars.

>> the falcon heavy is named after the millennium falcon if "star wars." doritos for women may be a no go after all. >> the brand tweeting this message. we already have doritos for women and they are called doritos. and they're loved by millions. >> it sounds rational but wait until you hear the back story. >> that response came after the ceo of pepsico which owns doritos made this statement, that men love to chomp down on doritos, pour the crumbs in their mouth and lick their fingers but women don't. the company was looking into quieter, less messy doritos for the ladies. chuck beyers says the situation calls for more research. >> i would take it to test market. i mean, there is a possibility that all the negative comments on the twitter-dom are coming from people who wouldn't buy doritos in the first place. >> once you buy doritos you're not worried about your femininity anymore.

>> i don't know what that means. >> i've eaten cool ranch my whole life. what does that make me? >> i don't know what any of this means. the internet didn't like this. and it lashed back. the ceo still says in her statement they're going to make snacks specifically aimed for females. >> what is a woman's snack? what is that? >> i'm on the edge of my seat. hi, mike. hi, everybody. let's talk about what's going on with the east bay hills camera where it is gusting up to 28 miles an hour right now. those breezes will relax as we head through the day and high pressure takes over bringing us drier air, total sunshine, and near record warmth for a sixth consecutive day. cooler, not as breezy tonight. a cooler weekend is shaping up. that's the difference from yesterday. here's a look at our high pressure and you can see with the clockwise flow blowing the air offshore and it's warm at the coast. it will stay that way, 75 at santa cruz. places where we could tie or set

a high. concord and livermore, 79. believe it or not most of our record highs are around 80 to 81 degrees today. so at some point in time it was really warm on this day. 7:00. it's 55 in san francisco. 65 at noon. 72 at 4:00. 59 at 7:00. but we have micro climates in san francisco. look at downtown, 76. then look at sunset and we're only in the upper 60s for highs today. on the peninsula, 51 this morning. 67 at noon and 74 at 4:00. and a comfortable evening is 63 degrees. no clouds whatsoever. our highs will top out from 72 in daly city to about 76 in redwood city and menlo park. because of the lack of wind and drier air tonight look for mid to upper 40s and a few 50s. we could make it seven tomorrow, eight thursday, maybe nine consecutive days with near record highs friday. a dry cold front will bring our temperatures back into the 60s by sunday and monday.

hi, sue. good morning. it looks like a gorgeous commute across the golden gate bridge. a live shot, stellar views. no delays getting to the toll plaza. it's just a little bit busy on the upper deck. you should have four lanes southbound direction and two lanes heading northbound. we've had a couple of problem spots this morning. we do have a car through a fence now. this is southbound 880 at crow canyon. looks like really slow traffic in the northbound direction. there was some debris in lanes there as well. through san ramone look for slow traffic both directions on 680. and an earlier accident at the san mateo bridge toll plaza has things still backed up. the accident has been long gone. check out your drive even northbound and southbound 880 heading to the bridge. very, very slow this morning. and an earlier accident at 23rd also gone but very slow. a look at some of your drive times if you're heading out right now. 101 and 880 your drive into the maze. 101 in san jose due to an

accident at 13th still very slow there as well. 6:53 now a. majority of san franciscans say they support those red transit only lanes across the city. according to "the examiner" 55% of people support the red lanes. 30% oppose it. the poll was taken among 500 people. they can be found in the mission, terrible street, parts of downtown, too. last summer muni received approval to put red lanes on at least 50 more streets to speed up buses. starting saturday you can use an app to buy caltrain tickets, caltrain mobile will let riders purchase and activate tickets from their smart phones. that means you don't have to stop at a ticketing machine. the prices are the same and you can buy particular for multiple people on the same device. up next the seven things you need to know before you go. first, our instagram picture of the day. oh, yes, fields of gold. if you haven't yet, follow us and see a lot more great images like this. share your photos and video

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it is 6:57. if you're just joining us or heading out the door, her are the seven things to know before you go. number one, trading is resuming on wall street. this is a live look here at our big board. and right now the dow is up about 0.7%. 158 points. starting to somewhat rally from yesterday's record-setting plunge. number two, people up and down the east coast received a tsunami warning on their phones this morning. it was just a test. no tsunami warning is in effect for the east coast of the u.s. number three, san jose police investigating a murder/suicide at the denny's on south 1st and east alma. also in san jose police confirming a man shot and killed on keyes street at 2:28 a.m. the high-profile lawsuit involving self-driving cars continues in san francisco with travis kalanick taking the stand. google's spinoff waymo claims a former employee who built its

self-driving car stole trade secrets. starting off milder in my 12-hour day planner. we could end up with our sixth consecutive day of record temperatures. problems in the san ramone area. northbound debris in lanes. southbound a car in a fence. number seven, lady doritos? probably not. pepsico tweeting out last night chips meant just for women are not being developed. this despite word directly from the company's ceo that they were coming out with such a product soon. >> i know a lot of people didn't like the idea of lady doritos but a shout out to one of our viewers, napa girl on twitter. she says they should have not targeted to women and been called neetos because they don't make your hands dirty. >> and they're quiet. >> i like it. who can't get onboard with that? >> hire her. >> we'll be back in 25 minutes

a. look at the stock market. down and up again. .own and up again. . . good morning, america. breaking news for our viewers in the west. the dow dropping as the market opens. the largest one day drop in history. now wall street bracing for another rocky day. new twist in the russia investigation. president trump's lawyers now warning him against sitting down with the special counsel and live on "gma" this morning, the former trump adviser at the center of that secret gop memo. was he working with russia? quentin tarantino breaks his silence, now telling his side of the story about that dangerous "kill bill" stunt that uma thurman called dehumanizing to the point of death, saying it left her permanently damaged. lady doritos? the clash over the doritos