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evacuate and the order was expanded late this afternoon. >> we have team coverage tonight. francis is tracking the changing weather conditions that firefighters deal with but we start with leslie brinkley who is at one of the evacuation centers in lake county. leslie. >> reporter: dion and eric, it's very hot up here. i can tell you every few minutes we ware the sirens on the way to the fire. hipped me the evacuation center and look at that sky. a dark ominous sky to the east. 180 degree panorama of smoke fueled by erratic winds, low humidity and the heat. the entire spring valley community is it o is threatened north of long valley road in lake county. a new evacuation alert this afternoon was followed by
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another asking people to reduce water usage, to conserve water for firefighters, hundreds of them attacking this blaze by air and on the ground. >> i said well if you're in the going to protect my house. i'm going to protect my house. >> tracy gatlin watched her house on cache creek road burn down after she claims her urgent pleas for help were ignored. >> for two and a half hours there were some sort of -- some sort of vehicles on our road that could have been doing something. and i was rolling propane tanks down the hill moving my cars. i had jets. i was doing everything i could. and i needed help and no one would help knee. >> a red cross shelter at lower lake high school became a refuge for this family who skapd with only the clothes on their back and their cat penny. >> we have been through this four times. and this was the first time i really felt like we were in danger. because the fire was just on the
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hill just over from us, like maybe this is the time we lose our house. >> theirs was spared. 600 other structures are now threatened. in lake county, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> the weather this weekend has been scorching hot in the bay area and to the north. the conditions can can only add fuel to the raging wildfire. for a look at what firefighters are dealing with in lake county here is francis. that's where which there is a red flag warrant because of the dry gusty conditions. the gusts up to 25-mile-per-hour. very low humidity during the day time, 4 to 12%. but things are improving. here are conditions right now. the temperatures dropped to 90 degrees. that's dropped on the relative humidity up to 20 peppers gusts up to 22-mile-per-hour. but the winds are dying down over the next 24 hours especially after midnight and
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tomorrow not as gusty. that's better news for firefighters helping to combat this fire dion. >> thanks. now further north calfire is dealing with a destructive fire, the stole fire started yesterday and grown to 500 acres and wiping out multiple homes and building near red bluff. they are making progress and it's 40% contained. a few remain under evacuation. other news now thousands of people verged on san francisco for the 48th annual pride parade. the weather was unbeatable for the celebration of love, tolerance and equality. but politics mixed in. coronell bernhard has this look. >> dikes on bikes rattled windowings and market street leading the parade like they do every year. >> we get the most excited people and we rev engines and people go nuts. >> reporter: pride organizers
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say 50,000 marched this year some groups protesting the recent move to separate migrant families seeking asylum, including congresswoman nancy pelosi's own grandson. >> families belong together. >> every year it's great. this year it's absolutely necessary to show our unity, pride. >> reporter: others made their own fashion statements. so much love, tolerance and equality. it's hard it believe there was a time in california when things were not that way. >> former supervisor tom amiana remembers the defeat of the briggs initiative which tried to ban gays and lesbians from teaching. >> check out this view from stooif a see sea of rainbow pride. janet pearson sharing the pride with her family. >> love is love and that's what we are here to support and make sure our kids know this too. >> reporter: our own dan ashley
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and his band rocking the parade route. >> what a great day. wonderful vibe and feeling out here. and the weather is perfect. >> after the parade there was a pride festival. at civic center. in san francisco. coronell bernhard. abc 7 news. >> we are honored to be part of the parade. here you see drew tuma with other he staff member. the parent company disney had more than 600 in the contingent including employees from lucas film and pixar. people celebrated pride in many ways, including through prayer. abc 7 fuss was at the berkeley fellowship of you know itarian universalist processes. today's service focused on the strides the lgbt community made over the doekds. worshippers left with the message of appreciating the value of everyone around them no matter how they identify. >> take a moment to let the lgbtq people in your life, know you love and support them just
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the way they are. or in other words hug a queer. >> and money collected during the church services this morning will be donated to oakland's lgbtq kmurnt center near lake merit. we have full coverage of the pride weekend. at the website. there are events going on as we speak. we have a photo gallery of the pair are parade at abc7news.com. >> next on abc 7 news the crisis at the border. >> we see terrible things that people do to each other. >> we speak to a guard about what it's like inside one of the detention centers where families are held. the money pours into a fund raiser to help separated families. how much they raised in one week. and see how a california team came to the rescue of
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with children. zbliermgts cheryl yengs was invited to meet jackie speier during heir investigation of conditions at detention centers in texas. >> cheryl talked exclusively with a border guard to hear what the tense situation looks ike from his perspective. >> we see terrible terrible things that people do to each other. >> this officer is a father of four he agreed to meet with us to talk about what it's like from a border guard perspective as the controversy swirls over immigration issues. especially the separation of undocumented children and families and the conditions in which they are detained. >> they are cages. and i think all of us will have a different perspective certainly. but this is not the way we treat people who are seeking asylum. border patrol and all of the agents are doing their jobs. but they are a criminal law enforcement agency. and from my view, they have treated some of these children
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and families as you would treat a criminal. >> officer cabrera says many don't that people turn kw no themselves into the guard. >> the family members have had experiences with us they know we are not bad folks. they any we are here to help them get them started in the process. >> we found a young mother and child who skapd from honduras at the local bus station. she turned herself into the border patrol, detained for three days but did not lose touch with her child. >> translator: thank god the new law was in place because if not we would have been separated. >> reporter: they're taking a nma not complaint about her th a stay at the mcallen facility. >> we have children and family members. if he at the -- you got to treat people the way you want to be treated. if we were in that situation we'd want to be treated accordingly. >> the debate over the fate of
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undocumented children is raging all over the country. while lawmakers try to come up with plans to ease the situation. cherylgenics, abc 7 news. >> well, cheryl will have reports on the trip over the past tlae days this minnesota on news and 4:00 and 6:00. the crisis at the border. you can find more coverage at abc7news.com. >> raiser by a family to help reewe mitt families has copped $20 million. it started out with a modest goal selfie 1500. grproving illegal -- es, a texas rather legal services to undocumented immigrants. just ahead, a random act of kindness. a special skill a california teenager used on an airplane passenger getting a lot of praise. >> and francis is up next with the accuweather forecast. and a record setting day for the a's but they didn't get the
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. a southern california teenager is getting a lot of praise tonight after she helped a man who is both blind and deaf communicate during a cross country flight. clara daley began learning american sign language a year ago the crew faced another challenge. >> though we had a passenger blind and deaf so like do you know how to finger spell yeah i totally know how. >> they weren't sure what he needed. they thought he might need something they weren't sure how to kpungt. >> well it turns out tim wanted water and asked how long the flight was. later in the flight tim asked for clara again process. she spent the final hour of the flight speaking wit spelling.ft mother posted it on ffb. >> a. scorching summer temperatures have people rushing to the water for relief. peanymade tpleootd american river in sacramento county to beat the heat. officials are out in full force
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warning about the dangerous of heat and water play for kids, adults and pets. they say keeping hydrated are ko staying safe. and be aware that even in hot temperatures the water is cold and may extremely cold. >> really that affects your ability to swim, if you are used to warmer water anderteom c sap >> there are life jacket stations where visitors may borrow as many. now the accuweather forecast from abc 7. >> we are looking at live doppler 7. the satellite image, the clouds surged. it's starting to if in. the on shore bra the cooler temperatures. but the red flag warning is inee hours for the north bay mountains and east bay hills. we could see gusts up to -mpeur l humidity as well. but that's starting to change as
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things progress over the next few hours. winds right now are extremely gusty, especially in fairfield. up to 41-mile-per-hour. in san francisco 15-mile-per-hour winds and mountain view 20-mile-per-hour really cooling us down. so a dramatic difference in terms of temperatures in. 35ta dan segree cooler than yes. even concord 32 degrees cooler. cooler for everyone around the bay with the exception of half moon bay they got the cooldown yesterday. here is sand rafael, thelouds t clouds and fog kass kate cading over the mountains spreading inlandve o 63. yesterday the high was 99. lots of low 70s out there right now. napa, nofta, fairfield 73. novato dropped to 68. livermore at 76 degrees. and this time ase w sutro tower there was a pink
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triangle around there. but you see the clouds cooling it down more for tomorrow. san francisco is currently 64. san jose, and 71 in goodwill roy. half moon bay 61. here is what you can expect as we look from emvyville towards the bay bridge in san francisco. the camera is bouncing around a bit so it's breezy throughout the day. overnight patchy fog and low clouds push inland. cooler and brezy again tomorrow but not as significant a drop. and another warm-up if you like it hot and get ready for that coming at the end of the we can. the clouds 7:00 tonight spread in. tomorrow morning we'll wake up to the low clouds and pen pull back again in the afternoon. mostly sunny conditions. but numbers will be coming down a little bit. you'll need to grab a jacket if you're out early. lows in the 50s. 52 in santa rosa, napa. oakland 56. milderer in antioch at 60. but then with sunshine and temperatures pretty comfortable
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you'll be okay inland. temperatures hitting the low to mid-80s in the antioch and fairfield area. fairfield ate. san francisco only 65. oakland 69. san jose, 80 degrees. and of course it's breezy once again, especially closer to the coast. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. the cooling continues but not dropping as much tomorrow. a little bit of change on tuesday. and then we start to really warm things upri fy.da mid-we can. but then for next weekend you'll need the sun screen and bathing suit again. mid-90s for the inland areas. >> announcer: now sports from abc 7 u nsed to rule the track at sonoma winning multiple titles including three in a row at one pnt. but over the last nine years there have been no repeat winner until laps to go. martin truex looked like he was going to pit. but the crew chief had him stay on to build a 17 second lip.
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he pitted 17 seconds later. there fshes t regain the lead. then he cruised to a 10-second victory. that lhe tarst ge sonoma. truex won in 2013 as well but he gives the credit for the result today to the crew chief. >> it's all cole. it's all him. that was amazing. i'm cool with whatever he wants to do. win, lose or trau we do it together. and i just got a lot of trust in him. i don't even say anything when he says pit or don't pit. i just do what he wants to do. awesome jb by him today. >> the giants last game of the series against the padres also happened to be the final game of the 17-game stretch without a day off. actually it was more like 17 and a third games as san francisco e in o work through extra padres arrived at a at&t park on a double decker bus because the team failed to show up. cudos for imagination.
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manual l off for the padres with a second home run off the year offer derrick rodriguez and he was outstanding after that candidate allow another run in 7 innings. gork ys hernandez finally got the giants on the border with the solo shot in the sixth. game tide at 1. that remained until the 11th with the bases loaded and facing two strikes, hunter pence, the 2-run walk off double emotion filled. giants win in extras 3-2 the fil. white sox fans certainly know how to grill up the pregame meal and cooked the a's. mark kanata delivered this sol of shot to the fifth. that set the major league with the 20th home run. the bottom half of the inning bases loaded. he unloaded then a five-run inning for the white sox. then they go and score 5 more in the sixth. thanks to three home runs daniel parkay he ended paul back burn's
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day. sanchez knocked it off liam hendricks. . and then this 3-run shot. the white sox crushed the a's 10-3. gwin jachtksanon t-ho start mon detroit. oakland is a 15-yeareterans's 13th major league team. that matches a record. the 334-year-old jackson signed a minor league deal with the a's on the sixth. the travelers championship and paul kasey had a four stroke lead into the final rounld. bubba watson six strokes back and the best shot came on 10 process. just off the greenolls in for bird y. then this short putt for birdie. kasey day had 2 over.
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bubba had five birdies on the back nine. . the 18th hole almost perfect. so coalesce. but easy tap in. bubba shot a 7-under 63 and wins the travelers championship and picks up the third win of the season. >> nice. >> baotum d. n>> >> i like that to win one seasoh the incredibles 2 didn't last long at the box off. dinosaurs rule now. see ♪ ♪ legendary jockey víctor espinoza is insatiable when it comes to competing. ♪ ♪ so is his horse. ♪ ♪ when it comes to snacking. ♪ ♪
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9:00 on cofi tv 0. another twist to the russia investigation. who federal investigators want to interview about stormy daniels and ties to president trump. at 11:00 on abc 7 we'll have the latest information from the fire lines in lake county. the latest evacuations and calfire's progress on the fire. dinosaurs are ruling the box office this weekend. >> jurassic world fallen kingdom bumped incredible 2 out of the top spot. it blew past expectations. >> fallen kingdom took in 150 million in ticket sales gives hollywood back to back $100 million plus openings.
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>> hi, everyone. i'm lizzie bermudez. welcome to "bay area life," the place where lifestyle, interests, food, and entertainment all come together. there's so much to explore. on today's show, we're lighting up the sky for 4th of july. >> it's fun, and it's really enjoyable to look up at the night sky and see a ton of really colorful fireworks bursting into the air with all this glitter, and sinrat down while the music isically i. >> then, the perfect road trip c the valley.ay >> the people here, they're family people. they've been here for ever and ever. >> it kind of makes you forget that you're kind of out in thea] here in the capay valley. >> and whale watching on the monterey bay. the aevniermay lsda ty. the animals that are swimming around right in our backyard that you might not know have been there. i just want to share thatenthust that we're able to see these animals so close. plus, healthy snacks
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