we'll takia to the scene in a moment and hear from our reporter on the ground there for us. >> that has been affecting traffic since 10:30 last night. good morning on this tuesday. natasha and mike are off today. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> live doppler 7 along with satellite giving you the active sweep. you can see the gray contour. that's the widespread low cloud cover. the look outside, the tops of the buildings in san francisco essentially cut off by the low cloud cover. your 12-hour day planner today has the gray start. we're cool, in the 50s. but by midday, clearer skies. sun prevails. by 4:00, it is a warmer afternoon than yesterday. 80s around the bay. inland, our warmest spots going into the mid yienlts. we have issues on highway 92. >> i'll show you where we're talking about on the traffic maps. in the san mateo area and the connector from northbound 101 to eastbound 92. so the countercommute direction, but folks who want to head east

across the san mateo bridge are having to take a detour due to that crash. it involves a semi. occurred at 10:30 last night and that truck was hauling about 80,000 pounds of lettuce. that's really complicated things. the good news is the detour is in place. hillsdale boulevard to edgewater boulevard and reconnect with eastbound 92 and continue across the bridge. we have had reporter matt keller there for us all morning. they're making progress. that truck now uprighted. what's the latest? >> yeah, good morning, alexis. that big development since i last saw you, the big rig is now upright there, and now they have to work on getting this thing out of here. take a look at the new video. they needed three tow trucks get the job done. the big issue is how much this trailer weighs. i's 80,000 pounds and filled with lettuce. while they were doing it, my photographer and i were standing here. you could feel the ground shake whenever they moved it. in fact, the tow truck tried to get this thing uprighted, it broke the first one. so they had to bring in the

three other ones. the truck was the only vehicle involved in the crash. the driver was not injured. it will still take time to open up the ramp and remove all the equipment, the tow trucks, all the crews here. caltrans will then clean up the road and you can expect traffic rolling through once again. matt keller, abc 7 news. >> growing backlash against president trump over his recent comments following a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >> lawmakers on both side of the aisle say they're shocked president trump openly sided with putin and questioned u.s. intelligence findings that russia meddled in the tent 16 election. >> what the president said today is not accurate. >> the president's comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. >> the president has at least one lawmaker in his corner. senator rand paul praised president trump for talking to putin. the head of national intelligence, though, insists russia tried to sway the

election. new this morning, voters in san francisco will decide whether to tax businesses to help the homeless. a measure would add an average half percent tax on revenue above $50 million a year. it would raise about $300 million a year, and that would double what the city spends right now on homelessness. the money would be spent on more shelter beds and housing for the homeless. yesterday, the city elections department confirmed supporters have enough signatures put the measure on the ballot. >> the santa clara county sheriff's office wants to find this guy. a sketch of a man who apparently hit someone with a car during a fight over parking. it happened in san jose last week. the sheriff's office says the victim was trying to keep this man from parking on sierra road. the two of them got into a fight, and the man ended up hitting the other person with a 2007 toyota corolla. the victim told investigators the car was gray or silver. fwl we're learning more about the young woman who survived a week on the california coast after a car crash near big sur.

angela hernandez recently posted these photos of her injuries on facebook. the 23-year-old from portland was driving to southern california when her jeep plunged off a cliff, leaving her stranded on july 6th. she wrote on facebook, i could see cars driving across the cliff and felt like if i could yell just loud enough, that one could hear or see me. that's all it would take to make it back to my family. just one person noticing me. >> when you rank things as far as amazing, this probably tops it. just her will to survive. i think she just got it into her mind, i'm not going to die out here. >> the monterey county sheriff says angela survived on water from a nearby spring until a couple of hikers found her. she's now recovering from a brain hemorrhage, a collapsed lung, rib fractures, and intense sunburn. angela's sister has set up a go' fundme page to support her recovery, and you can find a link to the fund-raiser at

abc7news.com. it already raised $7,000. >> meanwhile, a mother and her son had to be air lifted out of a canyon in a remote area of solano county yesterday. the chp said the pair had been stranded since 8:00 a.m. a woman called 911 when she found an area with cell reception and found on the line while the helicopter located them. the pair were taken to the hospital for heat related issues. >> calfire close to fully containing a fire burning near the california/oregon border. the wildfire that briefly shut down interstate 5, and containment is up to 95%. the fire has burned 38,000 acres and destroyed dozens of buildings. one person died when their home caught fire. calfire is optimistic it will have the fire fully under control in the next few days. >> santa clara will ask voters to decide whether to tax recreational cannabis. the city council voted to put

the cannabis business tax on the ballot. the tax could generate more than $2 million in revenue annually for the city. recreational cannabis is not yet legal in santa clara but the city is working to have rules in place when that day comes. tired of waiting in long lines like these at the dmv? so are state lawmakers. how they're planning to hold the agency accountable. >> new at 6:00, a warning before you next visit to the urgeants care center. >> why you may walk out with an unneeded prescription. >> time now, 6:06. we're starting out with a fair amount of cloud cover early on, but midmorning, clouds will depart and by 11:00, sunshine prevailing inland. warm in the 60s and 70s. after the break, we'll look at how warm we get around the region today. >> and let's take a live look outside, as drew gives us an update on the weather. look at this, the traffic right now at the bay bridge toll plaza. we'll check in with alexis we'll check in with alexis

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now. let's time out the cloud cover for you hour by hour. future weather, 8:00, later on this morning, still rather cloudy over san francisco. patchy cloud cover around the east bay shoreline. elsewhere, we're sunny. by noon, that cloud cover all the way back to the coast. we'll see full sunshine away from the coast later on this afternoon. highs today, 69 in san francisco. about 88 in san jose. it will be warm in the south bay. 76 in oakland. napa up to 86. and inland, we'll be hot in the mid 90s. 95, that high in concord. we have traffic alerts to talk about. alexis is here with more. >> i want to take you back out live to the scene in san mateo. this is a livelic at the semi that was flipped over, and on the connector ramp from northbound 101 to eastbound 92. since 10:30 last night. i would say, oh, about 15, 20 minutes ago, they were able to get the truck upright. the big problem is there's about 80,000 pounds of lettuce in there. it was tough. i believe the count is up to four tow trucks working to clear this truck. connector still closed but they're working on hooking

right now. we're keeping a close eye on that. in the meantime, drive times looking great here. westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze, 20 minutes. 8 minute drive into san francisco, and southbound 101, san francisco to sfo looking great at nine minutes. >> new at 6:00, an alert for anyone who goes to urgent care. a new study says nearly half of patients seeking treatment for flu or the cold are getting prescriptions even though they don't need them. that's three times more prescriptions than patients get at a traditional doctor's office. dr. jennifer ashton is on gma to explain why it's dangerous. >> antibiotic resistance. you're exposing that bacteria or virus or organisms to something that can then make that antibiotic completely ineffective. >> coming up at 7:00, the doctor explains what you should ask your doctor before getting that prescription. >> good news for your really

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6 clx 14. welcome back. this video here shows the moment a lava bomb struck a tour boat off the coast of hawaii. it's from a boat sitting in open water, but what you're about to see is what it looked like on the boat that got hit. >> terrifying moments, and nearly two dozen people viewing the kilauea lava flow were hurt when flying chunks of molten rock launched into the sky. one chunch knocked a hole right through the boat's roof. passengers onboard another boat watched it all happen. >> exploded straight out at the boat. we could hear the rocks hit the boat and the people yelling. >> we saw a bunch of steam and rocks and stuff flying. and a lot of it landed inside the boat. and some large pieces landed on top of the boat. >> 13 passengers were taken to the hospital. others had minor injuries.

hawaii's kilauea volcano started erupting in may. >> the difference this time, in documentary form. a new film debuts on thursday night and it's called urban inferno, the night santa rosa burned. fire victim dr. steven seager made the film. it recounts the events of the deadly october firestorm. he used a lot of cell phone video and air checks from ksro radio. the film focuses on the first eight hours of the fire seen can told by those who lived it. >> you tell people about it, but they don't get it until you show them what it was really like. it's the worst thing most people here will ever go through. >> urban inferno is set to premiere this thursday in downtown santa rosa. producers expect a strong response. there will be crisis case workers outside the theater. and profits from the movie will go right back into the community to help fire victims.

>> a bill ipcongress aims to set a minimum size for airline seats within a year. this comes as the department of transportation has also started an audit of airplane cabins to make sure they're roomy-to meet emergency deplaning safety codes. regulators are working to improve passenger health and well-being by providing more leg room. a reese btdant study showed the average domestic airplane has increased the number of seats by nearly 8% in the last 15 years. there's two of us sitting here who are mostly made up of legs. right? >> yes. i love this bill. fantastic. >> i'll take the middle seat, guys. >> you would? >> this is perfect. >> the perfect alignment. >> window, middle, aisle. >> let's go to hawaii. >> good news this morning, no delays at sfo. you take this picture, live look. it's foggy out there. >> and no delays? >> no delays right now. the faa may change that, but sf,

a foggy look. look at this picture, going to switch it over. exploratorium camera. the fog has gobbled up the bay bridge right now. visibility is being reduced in a lot of spots. underneath that cloud cover, we're mainly in the 50s to low 60s. 55 right now in san francisco. at 60, good morning, hayward. 62 in san jose, and brentwood, 54 is your current temperature. highs today in our microclimates, starting in the south bay. a lot of sunshine in the afternoon. warm in san jose. 88 degrees. 94, the high in morgan hill. along the peninsula, 83, menlo park. cloudy, cooler along the coast, mid 60s for half moon bay. downtown san francisco, 69 with afternoon sunshine. later on today, more in the way of cloud cover for daly city. only 65 this afternoon. to the north bay, it will be warm in spots. 86 for napa. 90 in novato. 86 that number in vallejo. into the east bay, 76 in oakland. 83 in fremont, and warm in the 90s, so the ac certainly getting

a walkout inland. seven-day forecast, warm today, even warmer tomorrow. and then the humidity will be on the rise for thursday and friday. let's get an update on the traffic from alexis. >> i want to take you back live to the scene here, san mateo, the northbound 101 connector to eastbound 92, still shut down. doesn't look like a lot has changed in the last few minutes. i'm seeing the tow truck drivers getting in and out of their trucks. they did manage to get the truck upright, but they have not made any movement as far as towing that away. that connector is closed. that traffic alert still in place. we'll get the latest in ten minutes. matt has been live at the scene for us all morning. >> in the meantime, a new issue just outside of the caldecaught tunnel. initially sounded like possibly a crash, but sounded like someone maybe having a panic attack and blocking the left lane. so emergency crews are there. they did just run a traffic break, and once you make it to the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights are on and there's a vehicle stuck between

the carpool lanes and the fast track lanes just beyond the metering lights. next traffic update right around 6:30. >> alexis, thank you. "good morning america" is coming up at 7:00. >> resrr say hi to ginger zee joining us with a look at what's ahead. >> morning. so good to be with you both this morning. coming up, the fallout growing from president trump's stunning summit with russian president vladimir putin where he appeared to side with putin over american intelligence. the president standing behind his claims overnight. now one of the toughest critics, though, from president trump's own party, is going to join us live. >> also ahead, this terrifying video getting millions of views. masked men hiding in the yard. then they open fire on a car full of teenagers. they're still on the loose. we're hearing from two of the survivors this morning. >> and something a lot of parents are wondering about. how much screen time is too much? well, we did an experiment with a family, and we give the kids unlimited access for an entire

week. the results might surprise you. and it's all coming up only on "good morning america." we're not there yet with my 2 1/2-year-old, so it scares me. so this story is important. >> we were saying earlier, sometimes the little ones, they eyes are drawn to the light on the screen. >> mm-hmm. yeah, we only use it on airplanes right now, the only place we play games. >> it's an uphill battle for all of us. ginger, thank you. we'll see you in a little bit. >> thank you. new at 6:00, the local stars of the movie "blind spotting" and what they're revealing. >> plus, a wild chase. a las vegas police officer a las vegas police officer opening fire

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good morning, time now, 6:24. i want to give you an update on sfo. we now have delays for arriving flights, averaging about 45 minutes. the next three days, it will be a comfortable afternoon today, but warmer weather will move in here on wednesday and by thursday, we're tracking an increase in humidity. jessica. >> drew, thank you. look at your screen here. something you don't want to miss. an intense shootout between las vegas police and two murder suspects. ends with one suspect dead, the other in custody. yesterday, police released this stunning body cam footage of the chase. the chase itself happened wednesday. they saw the suspects fire at officers 34 times. and it actually forced -- look

at this -- one officer to return fire and shoot through his own windshield. >> when you look at this video, it payments a clear picture of what those officers were dealing with that day. the officer could have backed off, but he didn't. he stuck with that individual, knowing what type of individual he was dealing with. >> the suspects at one point crashed their car and tried to reverse toward officers. police shot and killed the driver. the other suspect ran to a nearby elementary school where he was eventually caught and arrested. >> california lawmakers want answers about the wait times you experience at the dmv. the state approved a combined $69 million so the dmv can hire more employees this year and last year, but despite all that staff, the lines are still long. assemblyman jim patterson plans to request a former audit into how the agency is spending the money. that will happen when he appears before the joint legislative audit committee next month. >> new at 6:00, the east bay

natives behind the new movie blind spotting are in the spotlight themselves this morning. >> they'll be on good morning america, and the best friends will sit down with anchor michael strahan to talk about their new movie, they explain how they met in high school and connected when david got out of college. >> when he got out of school, i was running a recording studio, and a mutual friend was like, you should hear his music. and he came by and we started working on music, and sort of been that way ever since. working on projects nonstop for the last 14 years. >> blind spotting is a movie about friendship and also the reality of life in oakland. you can see it in select theaters friday. it goes nationwide next week and you can watch the full interview on good morning america, it starts in about 30 minutes right here on abc 7. >> next, the popular san francisco neighborhood where cannabis shops could soon be banned. >> and the protests that greeted president trump at the white

house overnight as he arrived back from finland after the summit that shocked the world. we're live in washington, d.c. next. >> and we still have our traffic alert, going on since about 10:thirbt last night. looking live in san mateo. matt keller and his photographer at the scene for us. northbound 101 connector to eastbound 92 is still closed due eastbound 92 is still closed due to a

good morning, south bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. >> now, a traffic alert near the san mateo bridge. a major connector is closed after a crash. the impact for the commute. >> protests at the white house for president trump overnight after the stunning summit with vladimir putin. new reaction this morning. >> and bay area summer is here. live look from our east bay hills camera. foggy start this morning but by the afternoon, you'll need sunglasses. >> everywhere you look. there are tourists outside of the "full house" house, so what's being done to slow down the sight seers? reggie, hit it. come on. >> what? >> the words, reggie. the words. >> i know. see, i never knew it was everywhere you look, everywhere you go. >> we didn't know that. >> there's a heart, there's a heart.

why don't we hold hands. >> so weird. >> let's just get to weather. >> i never held hands before, jessica. >> you guys just became friends. weather wise, let's talk about the foggy start we have early on. visibility issues. petaluma, done to three miles, four miles in half moon bay. early on this afternoon, we'll have dense fog. a live look at the exploratorium camera. the bay bridge gobbled up by the fog early on. sunnier skies prevale, and by 4:00, it's a warmer afternoon than yesterday. the coast is cool in the 60s, but around the bay, a lot of low 80s. inland, we're warm in the mid 90s. issues on the roads. alexis has a traffic alert. >> the same one we have been tracking since 10:30 last night. this is in san mateo. the northbound connector from 101 to eastbound 92 is still closed. this is due to a semi crash that happened last night. the big issue is how heavy this truck was. it was hauling about 80,000 pounds of lettuce.

they have the truck upright, but for the meantime, a detour is in place. you can take hillsdale to edgewater to get back to 92 wrrbs and matt keller has been there for us all morning. what's the latest on getting this truck cleared, matt? >> i actually have good news. just talked with chp. you can see behind me, the trailer is gone. it's just been towed off the connector ramp. that's great. that's out of the way. now they need to start cleaning up this area, get all the equipment out of here, the tow trucks out of here. the chp officer told me that they think maybe within 30 minutes to an hour that they're going to have this ramp back open, which is great news considering that just probably about ten minutes ago, they were saying 8:00 a.m. so we're looking at maybe 7:00 or 7:30 this morning. here's video from about 40 minutes ago when the trailer was uprighted by three tow trucks. not a lot of space, so they were extra careful bringing it down. the big issue is how much it weighs. 80,000 pounds and filled with

lettuce. the first tow truck to try to get it uprighted actually broke. now that they have the trailer out of the way, you can see crews are bringing in the shovels and brooms and they have some equipment that they're going out here with, going to clean up, make sure there's no fluid or liquids out here on the ramp. this truck right next to me was stuck behind the other truck, the poor driver has been waiting here all morning long. so now that they're going to be getting this opened up, he'll be able to leave as well. reporting live here in san mateo, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thank you. outrage this morning following president trump's summit with russian president vladimir putin. >> in an effort to improve u.s./russian relations, president trump appeared to side with putin on denials of russian election meddling. kenneth moton is live with more. >> jessica and reggie, just moments ago, president trump tweeted his thanks to the one gop senator, rand paul, who defended his summit with vladimir putin. the white house is in damage control mode this morning,

actually pointing to another presidential tweet, which said that he has great confidence in the intelligence community but the u.s. and russia must get along. president trump back at the white house. [ chanting traitor ] welcomed by protested after his extraordinary one-on-one with russian president vladimir putin. the president side by side with the man u.s. intelligence said was behind interference in the 2016 election. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people. but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> putin saying we should be guided by facts. but just days ago, special counsel robert mueller's investigation led to the indictment of 12 russian military officers. >> i think it's a shame. >> in his first post-summit comments, the president again appeared to side with putin on fox news. >> we get questions on the witch hunt. and i don't think the people out

in the country buy it. >> some of the harshest criticism came from fellow republicans. like senator ben sasse, saying this is bizarre and flat-out wrong. >> i never thought i would see an american president throw the intelligence community under the bus like that. >> senator john mccain called it one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. >> millions of americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that president putin holds damaging information over president trump. >> putin denied having anything damnng on trump. as for meddling, president trump's own intelligence director dan coats actually released a new statement saying that the intelligence community has been clear about russia's ongoing pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy. reporting live here in washington this morning, kenneth moton, abc 7 news.

>> thank you. happening today, the man accused of posing as a ride share driver and then sexually assaulting his passengers expected in court. >> the case is now raising questions about immigration policies in san francisco. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield live at sfpd headquarters. >> good morning, reggie. i.c.e. says he's here illegally and this is an examine of how san francisco's sanctuary city policy shields criminals. police arrested 36-year-old orlando lazo and say he was posing as a ride share driver and would drive his victims to another location and rape them. they say he raped four women over five years. and that they have dna evidence to prove it. >> these assaults were violent rapes committed by a serial rapist. a sexual deviant predator who was not going to stop until he was caught. >> lyft released a statement saying we have confirmed that

this person did drive for lyft. but as soon as we were made aware of these horrific and deeply disturbing allegations, we immediately deactivated him. uber says he never worked for them. lazo is due in court today. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. >> we have an update on the east bay fire official who was bit in the face, got attacked by a pit bull. the owner of the dog could now be facing a citation. john whiting was responding to a house fire in unincorporated san leandro saturday when the dog attacked him. there were 20 dogs inside the house at the time. while there were no signs of neglect toward the animals, that does violate a county ordinance that allows residents to only have two dogs. the pit bull is still under quarantine. there's also questions about what to do with the other dogs. >> any time you have a lot of dogs and you're not complying within the law, you open

yourself up to extra scrutiny. >> whiting has a long road to recovery. he's still at stanford hospital. a coworker who visited him says he's in good sporets with his wife and son by his side. >> happening today, tour buses could officially be banned outside the "full house" house in san francisco. the board of directors will decide whether to ban the buses from brodrick street between pine and bush. that's where the tanner family lived in the '90s sitcom. the proposal would impact commercial vehicles with nine or more seats. the goal is to keep traffic moving along on that busy street. more people have been visiting the house since "fuller house" debuted on netflix two years ago. >> and time now, 6:38 a.m. we'll give you a live look at the south bay. good morning, san jose. fair amount of cloud cover to start your tuesday, but we'll take you to walnut creek, you see sunshine inland. the cloud cover will be decreasing rather rapidly this morning, and sunny skies will

prevail this afternoon. temperature wise, waking up to 50s and 60s at this hour. good morning, novato, 57. the same in san mateo. san jose at 62 degrees. hour by hour we go, we'll time out that cloud cover. future weather by 8:00 this morning, still some cloud cover over san francisco and parts of the east bay shoreline. elsewhere, we see sunshine. by lunch time, that cloud cover well away from most areas along the coastline. we have that cloud cover, but sunshine will be the dominant forecast feature later on today. highs, 69 in san francisco. with afternoon sunshine. about 76, the high in oakland. 88 in san jose. it will be warm in the south bay, but much warmer inland. concord, 95. nixon antioch. santa rosa up to 93. weather, not a huge issue, but issues on the roadways. >> we're starting time prove. in fact, i got an update from matt keller. i want to take you back live to the scene in san mateo, where we had a flipped big rig, not the tanker truck you're seeing, the

actual truck that flipped is gone. the trailer and cab now towed away. caltrans crews just cleaning up the roadway now. it could be from 30 minutes to an hour. and they should have the northbound 101 ramp to eastbound 92 back open. so a lot of progress being made. i will certainly let you know as soon as that is back open. in the meantime, you can use surface streets to get around that. a couple issues on westbound 24. if you're traveling in the caldecott tunnel, we have the far right lane blocked. i believe it's a medical issue. just behind that westbound 24, in bore number three, we have a two-car crash, and then a quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza. we did have a minor issue just beyond the metering lights and that's cleared. this is what not to do when a drawbridge is going up. yeah, that woman ignored the crossing arms and rode her bicycle right into a gap in a bridge in wisconsin as it was being raised. she is okay.

thankfully, witnesses came to help her out of the gap. and they alerted the bridge operator before she got stuck. what was she thinking intrying to do dukes of hazzard fly over the drawbridge? i have no idea. >> i don't know what she expected. >> she could have fallen down below if it was a big enough gap. >> or gotten crushed in there if it closed back up. not a good idea all the way around. >> i used to live in that area. this is in wisconsin. there are a lot of bridges, and i get it. it happens at the most inconvenient times. but also -- i get the frustration. >> i don't have time for thus. >> you also can't physically drive up a 90-degree incline. it's not going to happen. okay, glad she's doing all right. thanks. >> going beyond growing. this building you see here holds the key to a new way to make money off legal marijuana. >> and you're looking live at the big board at the new york stock exchange. down just a few points. actually down 65 points right now. the meeting that could impact

markets today, plus a look at how netflix is doing after a less than stellar earnings report. >> tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00, could the day be near when you pull out cryptocurrency instead of cash or credit? some people are already using it for their everyday purposes. for their everyday purposes. michael finney looks at this

this is abc 7 mornings. >> it's 6:44 a.m. on your tuesday morning. want to show you this beautiful picture from the east bay hills camwithdraw. fog settled over most of the bay. once you get above 1500 feet, you have plenty of sunshine. wide range in temperatures later on. 65 for half moon bay. san francisco near 70 later on this afternoon. warm in oakland at 76 for tuesday afternoon. 93, though, gets hot in walnut creek. even hotter than that, 96 the high in antioch. we'll look at the seven-day forecast in about six minutes. >> drew, thank you. a live look right now at former president barack obama taking stage in his first high-profile speech since leaving office. he's in south africa celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of nelson mandela. the hill reports the speech is expected to be a rebuke of many of president trump's policies while also celebrating the ideas mandela worked to preserve, including democracy, diversity,

and education for all. and by the way, we're streaming it for you on our app and on our website. we also sent out a push alert notifying you this was beginning now. >> given what we saw yesterday, it will be interesting to see what he says. >> oh, yeah. all right, we're going to stay on top of that. we'll bring you updates throughout the morning. >> a deadly wildfire burning near yosemite park doubled in size in the last day and a half. >> calfire reporting the ferguson fire now covers 9300 acres and is still only 2% contained. the main entry to yosemite remains closed. so far, no structures have been destroyed but more than 100 are threatened. firefighting efforts are hampered by heavy smoke in the burn area and steep terrain. calfire crews had the somber job of recovering the body of one of their own yesterday. people in mere aposa county and fellow firefighters lined the road as a procession transferring braden varney's body passed. he died saturday when his

bulldozer rolled over as he tried to build a fire break. crews couldn't get to him until yesterday. he was 36 years old, married with two children. >> mgm resorts international are reportedly suing more than 1,000 victims of the 2017 las vegas mass shooting. that's according to the las vegas review journal, saying it's an effort to avoid any liability claims from the massacre. 58 people died when a gunman opened fire at a country music concert just outside of mandalay bay hotel. the company which owned mant allay bay and the route 91 harvest festival venue argues it cannot be held responsible for the deaths and injuries from the shootings and claims all of the claims against them must be dismissed. >> marijuana shops could soon be banned in san francisco's chinatown. supervisor aaron peskin represents that neighborhood, and he introduced the idea, saying he's respecting the wishes of the people who live

there. yesterday, the land use and transportation committee voted in favor of the ban. it's now going to go to the full board for a vote next week. and in the east bay, for the first time, the city of pittsburg has approved a commercial cannabis permit. that means workers at this warehouse will begin manufacturing a wide array of cannabis-based products this fall. that includes topical creams, ointments and lotions. canyon laboratories won its commercial cannabis permit with the majority vote from the pittsburg city koirnl council. the city negotiated a sliding tax scale. if canyon grosses $10 million, for example, the city will get half a million bucks. now to your morning money report. amazon prime day is still going, but it got off to a rocky start. >> the site temporarily crashed yesterday just as the sale began, and some shoppers were met with these images of dogs and an error message. but even with technical difficulties, amazon already is breaking some records.

amazon says customers order more items in the first ten hours than they did in the same time last year. rebecca jarvis said top sellers include the echo, kindle, and fire tablets. >> this old favorite, the senate pot 6-quart 7-in-1 multiuse programmable cooker can slow cook, steam, saute, and it's 40% off. no wonder it's a top seller. >> should i get that? >> every time we see that, you ask the same question. >> alexis, you have one? >> no. >> but she wants one. okay, our producer says it's great. >> okay, and by the way, insta pot, normally $100. it's on sale, $58.99. >> that's a good deal. >> netflix investors, get ready for what could be a rocky day. lower than expected earnings and fewer than expected subscriptions sent netflix's stock price plummeting. we'll see what it looks like

now. as you can see, it's down. $47, so almost 12%. the company added just over 5 million subscribers in the second quarter. that's a million viewer than what they had projected. here's a live look at the new york stock exchange. we're also down 49 points right now. the fed chair begins two days of questions before congress today. what he says, of course, could impact the markets. we'll be watching that. >> summertime means extra screen time for a lot of kids out of school. >> for parents, this is typically a struggle. they're constantly telling their kids to put the tab down, but a family in phoenix, arizona, experimented with an unconventional approach. they gave their three kids, age 10, 7, and 4, unlimited access for a week and used an app to track their usage. >> this is another great example of what happens when they spend too much time on them and they're coming off of them. fighting, taunting.

>> the 4-year-old's screen time varied between an hour and six hours a day. while the 10 and 7-year-old's usage leveled off at about five hours a day. at 7:00 on "gma" what the american academy of pediatrics is saying about healthy screen time for kids. it seems like that's always sometimes changing, but you know, trying to adjust as there's so much new technology. >> i know. and they're so drawn to it. it seems like most kids really want that. my sister sets a timer for their kids. they know when it goes off, they get 15 minutes. they have to hand it over. they're done. >> good idea. >> like the new tv time, when we were going up. >> a certain amount of time, then you're out until tomorrow. >> use it wisely, kids. >> today, beautiful to get out and about later on this afternoon. a lot of sunshine. today, this morning, we have visibility issues. live doppler 7 showing you that visibility along the coast, done to four miles in half moon bay. low cloud cover certainly greeting many of us out the door this morning. 50s to 60s, your starting

temperatures. 55 in san francisco right now. 57 in oakland. san jose a little warmer at 62. your 12-hour day planner, later on today, a gray start early on, cool, mainly in the 50s. by lunchtime, the cloud cover mainly just along the coastline. a lot of sunshine by 4:00. a warmer afternoon today than yesterday. remember, download the accuweather app on your smartphone and track these temperatures as you're out later on today. highs in the south bay, 88 in san jose. 94 in morgan hill. the peninsula, 86, redwood city. 84, mountain view. cool in the coast. 65, for daly city. 87, san rafael. 86 in vallejo. 76 for oakland, 81 in newark, and inland, we're going into the 90s. hot inland today. 96, brentwood. 92 in san ramon. the seven-day forecast, hot inland today. even warmer weather moves in here tomorrow, but by thursday and friday, what will be on the increase is the humidity.

it feels muggy before cooler air moves in over the weekend. let's get a check of the roads. >> i want to take you back to our traffic alert. we have been keeping track of this in san mateo all morning long. they are making a lot of progress. there goes the street sweeper. we have caltrans, we have chp. they're working on cleaning up this connector from northbound 101 to eastbound 92. we had big mess since 10:30 last night. a flipped big rig finally got that truck towed out of there, and they're working on cleaning up the roadway, probably inspecting to mog fic sure everything is safe. right now, the official time 8:00, they're estimating it will reopen. it could happen sooner than that if they wrap up the cleaning efforts. also want to update you on highway 24, we had some type of medical issue blocking one lane. that's cleared. but behind that, two-car crash inside caldecaught tunnel and that's still blocking one lane of bore number three. about a 15-minute delay from arinda. >> alexis, thank you. a santa rosa video store that's been part of the

community for more than three decades will close for good next month. this is the message on videodroid's website right now. it says the owner has decided to close following the north bay wildfires and because of personal health issues. according to the press democrat, videodroid had more than 30,000 titles at its store. most are now for sale for about $4 to $6. the store closes for good on august 26th. >> believe it or not, an east bay dog that was missing for nearly three years is back home with its owner this morning. >> such a bizarre story. antioch animal services posted this video of the weekend reunion, and you can see, the owner is overjoyed when she sees her french bull dog. the french bull dog suzant seem to really respond. but who can blame her? her name is henny. she went missing in november of 2015. what happened between now and then isn't really clear. we're told henny jumped into an

antioch police car in a traffic stop early saturday morning. the officer then brought the dog in and antioch animal services discovered it did have a microchip. that led them to henny's owner, who lives in arinda, and the reunion happened. unless henny is about to spill the beans, i don't know if we'll ever know where he was. >> quite the adventure. three yers. >> heme seemed very low key about the whole reunion, right? well, the places i have been, the things i have seen. what's next? >> sometimes you can't compare. >> coming up next here, the seven things you need to know. >> first, our instagram picture of the day. if you haven't yet, follow us. you can see a lot more great pictures like this. pictures like this. look a that beautiful

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time now is 6:58. theres are the seven things to know before you go. we have been following a traffic alert all morning long in san mateo. the northbound 101 connector to eastbound 92 is still closed but they're getting closed to opening it. caltrans crews just working on cleaning up the roadway. >> number two, president trump is back at the white house and facing a lot of backlash after

his one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin. good morning america is covering all the new developments. that's coming up right here. >> number three, the man accused of posing as a ride share driver and raping four women in san francisco is due in court today. i.c.e. says the man, 36 yesterday orlando lazo was here from peru illegally. >> number four, new b.a.r.t. cars need a lot of maintenance. the chronicle reports ten cars who went into service in january have had an average of 20 mechanical problems every month. >> number five, tour buses may be banned from stopping in front of the full house victorian. they'll decide whether to prohibit the buses on brodrick street where the tanners family lived. >> a sunny afternoon. 88 in san jose. >> grab your phones. new emojis today. new editions include new ha hairstyles or lack of hair.

a kangaroo, parrot, peacock, and a lobster. >> i could have used the lettuce one today. >> and a cupcake. >> everything is so perfect. good morning, america.t. breaking overnight -- [ chanting ] protests at the white house for president trump after that stunning summit with russian president vladimir putin. >> i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> trump did not back down overnight siding with putin over american intelligence agencies, defying his own advisers. members of his own party call the summit disgraceful. the shock waves around the globe this morning. lava bomb. new video showing the moment a flying chunk of molten rock from that erupting volcano in hawaii crashes through the roof of a tour boat packed with 50 people injuring nearly two dozen.