a surveillance vidilicon va is helping. >> it addresses residents who live in rvs. >> matt keller live at city hall. good morning, matt. >> good morning, reggie and jessica. the city council is doing something that has never been done before and i'm sure bay area cities will be watching to see if it works. all about housing. the east palo alto approved the rv parking program. you would see a lot of parked cam percent and rvs, many blame that on the housing crisis. the city teaming up we h open up a city owned lot and allow rvs to park safely. city officials admit the one-year pilot program has its challenges. >> when i assign case managers to each of the families so they will have someone to help them

navigate to that road to self-sufficiency. >> there has been concerns from residents that live nearby about the potential impacts of this program. >> reporter: those concerns include security and sanitary issues. mobile hygiene units will be made available. once the site opens in november, the area will be able to accommodate about 20 rvs. reporting live in east palo alto, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> an update on your weather and traffic and start with drew tuma. >> good morning. a weather alert this morning, we have some areas of really df dense fog. half moon bay down to two miles but dense fog in the north bay, one mile visibility in napa at this hour. early on you will encounter the low louds. later on today the cloud cover first thing. by noon those clouds are pretty much confined to the coast and into the afternoon, it will be sunny and it will be the warmest day all week into the 80s around the bay and inland we're

approaching 100 weather. a cck of the roads with alexis. good morning. >> good morning, drew. we're looking pretty good. talking about the fog we have a lot of it on golden gate bridge, not seeing much for the bay bridge commute, at least not yet. a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. a little stack up in the cash lanes on the left-hand side. we should have just under an hour to go before the metering lights are turned on. so that is still extremely light here, just after 4:30. westbound 580 tracy to dublin, 38 minutes, antioch to concord, 13, no delays, san rafael to san francisco, looking good at 17 minutes. tolafy m h adir ng with p16llectn but he ie misspoke. kenneth is live in washington for us this morning. >> good morning. once again president trump is

defending his summit with vladimir putin in a new tweet this morning, the president says, quote, many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference performance in helsinki. we've heard the opposite. there is still confusion this morning about whether or not the president truly believes u.s. intelligence about russian meddling. >> reporter: this morning new details about president trump's russia reversal. >> i have a full faith in our intelligence agencies. oops, they just turned off the lights. that must be the intelligence agencies. there it goes. >> reporter: after that moment sources shedding light on what led the president to backtrack on his answer in helsinki about russian election meddling. >> i have president putin, he said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: reading from prepared remarks, trump said he misspoke. >> i said the word would instead of wouldn't. the sentence should have been, i don't see any reason why it

wouldn't be russia. >> reporter: abc news learned the president came up witht clarification after a bipartisan condemnation. as he appeared to side with vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence community. >> the russians need to know there are a lot of us who fully understand what happened in 2016. >> reporter: on the trump walk back. >> i don't accept the president's comments today. if he wanted to make those comments he should have had the strength to make them in front of vladimir putin. >> reporter: but the attempted cleanup muddied even more when trump said he accepts russia interfered but others may also be to blame. >> it could be other people also. there's a lot of people out there. there was no collusion at all. >> reporter: democrats are fired up more than ever demanding top trump officials and the u.s. translator inside the trump/putin meeting testify in front of congress about what was discussed. reporting live here in washington this morning, kenneth

moten, abc news. >> thank you. happening today, the bart passenger seen smoking what appears to be meth on board trains is expected in court. video that air on abc 7 news helped lead to his arrest. tracy daniels was arrested after a viewer recognized him and called police. officers took him in because there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest, not because of the alleged drug use. on monday daniels' hearing was rescheduled because of medical reasons so he will be in court today. the fbi and oakland police have issued a $30,000 reward for information that leads to the solving of a murder case. 27-year-old patrick scott was shot to death february 3rd at a bus stop at 62nd and market streets on the berke/oakland border. taking a bus to his grandmother's house when he got shot. scott's mother said she heard nine shots and found her son bleeding as he tried to make it home. before her son died he told her who shot him. that's information she says she

cannot disclose right now. >> do the right thing. turn yourself in. i'm going to do all i can to save the next child and child after that. i'm not going to stop. >> police say this was not a random shooting. they have not released a possible motive. new this morning, a free church parking program in mission district is here to stay. it allows cars to be parked in the medians on sundays. according to the examiner, the board just voted to make the pilot program permanent. neighbors complained the program was a violation of church and state but church leaders say rising rent pushed many members out of the city and they needed a place to park to attend services. cars can only park on the median on sundays until 6:00 in the evenings. an east bay man that proposed a bill to benefit pg&e has a son that works for pg&e. the chronicle reports pg&e and democrat bill cork's office

confirm his son ian works for the company. assemblyman cork's bill would allow pg&e to issue state authorized bonds to pay settlements from last october's wildfires. state investigators blamed pg&e for starting 16 of the fires. pg&e's customers would repay the bonds over time. both the utility and cork's office say the personal connection has nothing to do with the bill. firefighters on the front lines of a fire burning just outside of yosemite are trying to make crucial progress before high winds today. the ferguson fire west of the park has burned more than 13,000 acres since it started friday night. it's only 5% contained. no structures have been damaged, but flames are burning very close to four evacuated communities. yosemite is open but highway 140 into the park is closed. officials warn visitors not over exert themselves because of all the smoke and the fire is producing in that area. and time now 4:37. that smoke from the fire going

as far north as liake tahoe. for us locally we seeloud ve doppler 7 zoom in closer the past four to five hours the fog has been filling in, visibility along the coast is down to two miles, some areas around napa, visibility down to one mile. dense fog in spots. live camera outside the exploratorium camera, a lot of fog for many of us this morning. we're looking at temperature wise, 50s to low 60s. 62 right now in san jose with that cloud cover in san francisco, we're at 56. 64 in brentwood with mainly clear skies. later on today, today will be the warmest day we have all week. look inland, we're approaching 100 in antioch, 71 in san francisco, 87 in san jose and 77 the high in oakland. unfortunately lo you'll look towards much of california and we're baking. 107 in fresno, vegas up to 103,

palm springs a very hot 102 degrees. from here on how, temperatures just start to cool off later this week. good news there. the roadways, how are we looking? >> we're doing okay. a lot of that fog that you mentioned. so golden gate bridge still under the dense fog advisory. we're seeing it in a few other areas too. not many crashes to go along with that. one in the south bay, southbound 280, ram top south bay 101 in the san jose area. solo vehicle crash, almost two hours ago. this is in the clearing stages. sounds like they have been able to push that to the off ramp and air bag did deploy there in the vehicle and possibly some injuries to that driver. that is in the clearing stages now. i'm not seeing delays approaching that scene. a check outside a live look at smaits bridge, westbound 92 light as you leave hayward towards foster city. the other side the big issues yesterday that is gone at this point. all ramps and main lanes are open. we'll look at mass transit coming up next. >> thanks. the palo alto police department can't find enough

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minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> this is "abc 7 mornings." >> good morning. 4:42 a.m. we have issues with fog. it is dense in spots early on this morning. you can see visibility on live doppler 7 napa and half moon bay one mile visibility. drive slow, use the low beams. elsewhere we're doing okay, a slower than normal commute. extremes today, wide range. inland near 100 degrees but along the coast, we're cool in the 60s. the accuweather seven-day forecast in a few minutes. the founder of papa john's pizza says it was a mistake to step down after accused of using a racial slur. john snadser says the board of directors asked him to resign without any investigation and he should not have complied. snadser accused the board of not knowing how to hand al crisis based on misinformation and blaming a marketing agency for pressuring him to use the "n" word during a conference call back in may. if you're looking for uncle jesse in san francisco he's not home and you can't ride a tour

bus in front of the "full house" house anymore. tour busses will be banned between pine and bush under new yaordinance. the "full house" reboot spiked more interesting in the home which is featured in the opening credits. in addition to the traffic headaches there's been a spike in car break-ins, taking advantage of unsuspectng tourists. the ban applies to vehicles that seat more than nine people. a job in palo alto offering a starting salary of $98,000 a year with no college degree required, but the palo alto police department can't find enough people to apply. abc 7 news reporter david louie shows us the new approach to draw in recruits. >> reporter: you would never know it but this police lieutenant used to be an attorney who took a pay cut as a recruit. others on the palo alto force were welders, school teachers and nurses. they're being showcased in a

recruitment video hoping to lure a new applicant to become officers. 13 openings but with every other department in the county trying to fill jobs palo alto decided to showcase ten officers who took the plunge and changed careers. >> maybe it's not too late for mehaeo something that means something and really it's not too late to change and into a career in public service. >> reporter: mario es straed da is a one-time welder. >> we're not coming from the same cookie cutter mold. it's important to bring different aspektsz of careers and lifestyles. >> reporter: another phenomenon that could become a good recruiting tool. ♪ >> reporter: officer lip sync videos have proliferated in sonoma as agencies compete against each other. like the palo alto approach, potential recruits see officers in a different light. >> it really does humanize police officers and shows that hey, we're just like you. we sit in a car, we sing to the

radio, we have fun too. >> reporter: it is too early to know whether or not the new approach will work. palo alto still has an unsurmountable issue, the high cost of living. only 5% of officers live in town. in palo alto, david louie, abc 7 news. all right, how about this. did you lose several thousand dollars at sfo over the past few days? really? i know we're all saying yes. a traveler found an envelope stuffed with cash at the international terminal on late saturday night. the man didn't have time to turn it over to security, so he plans to do that when he get backs from a trip overseas. we did talk with him on the phone. >> i think that person who lost this should know [ inaudible ] properly. it's something very specific. >> it was hard to understand what he said, but something very specific that was with this cash that you should know about.

>> okay. >> to identify yourself. if you lost a large amount of cash at sfo the spokesperson for the airport says get in touch with san francisco police. . i would have turned around immediately. i don't know. >> anybody see anything? >> calling every day. >> maybe they don't know yet. >> that's true. >> maybe. how do you not know that -- >> maybe like uber rich. >> 20,000. >> that happens on occasion. >> right. >> just like where did that 20k go. who knows. >> wonder what the specific item is. >> take a wild guess. >> i have so many questions. >> me too. we'll find out the answers later. what's happening with the fog out there. we still have issues, dense in spots, live doppler 7 along with satellite, gray overhead but we'll turn on the visibility mode with live doppler 7 and see where the issues are. the coast and the north bay have the hardest fog right now. the densest, so to speak.

one mile visibility in napa and half moon bay. that's your weather alert early on this morning. temperature wise, where we had the low cloud cover, in the 50s, more in the way of clearer skies like brentwood and livermore, holding in the 60s. '60s in mountainview, at 54 with the fog in half moon bay. hour by hour we go, future weather we'll time out your morning, the fog early on. i think by about 10:00, 11:00 in the morning the fog will be confined to the coastline. a lot of sunshine later on this afternoon. highs here we go, 87 in san jose, about 83 for cupertino, along the peninsula, cooler in pacific at 64, san francisco 71, into the north bay, a wide range, 88 in san rafael, 68 vallejo, 82 in fremont, and inland hot in the 90s. 96 pittsburgh, 97 livermore, 99 in brentwood. accuweather seven-day forecast we will show you today cool on the coast but hot inland. more in the way of cloud cover thursday. it turns humid on fry, remains that way on saturday before we cool off on sunday. all right.

that's the weather. >> good morning. we're off to a quiet start here today. bay bridge toll plaza still looking good with the exception of a little stack up in the cash lanes this morning and we always see that this time of day until they get a few more booths open. no metering lights yet. that usually happens between 5:20 and 5:25. mass transit looking great, bart, 30 trains, no delays no delays for san francisco bay ferry and capital corridor looking good. normal service and no delays reported. we'll take a look at the central valley drive next. walmart getting ready to challenge netflix, hulu and amazon. >> ups testing smart locks. here's this morning's tech bites. >> in today's tech bites walmart reportedly going after amazon again. >> this time it's not in retailing. the information website reports walmart is considering launching its streaming video service. the service would reportedly cost less than amazon prime and netflix. ups is testing a way for people to get packages delivered when not home.

>> it started as a pilot program in new york city where drivers use smart locks to gain entry into apartment buildings that don't have doorman. they launched a service last month using lockers in common areas. and the girls scouts are changing introducing a badge for cyber security. >> to prepare girls with a modern world with digital opportunities and threats. it's among a batch of 30 badges aimed at promoting s.t.e.m. education. >> wow. aren't you bright. >> s.t.e.m. >> those your tech bites. >> i love that idea. >> popular electric toothbrush under recall. why you shouldn't use it today. why you shouldn't use it today. >> and ground is broken on a

good morning. 4:53 on our wednesday. want to look at your morning planner. the big story early on, we have areas of dense fog. that cloud cover should begin to pull back to the coast by about 10:00, 11:00. by 11:00 we're warming into the 80s. going to be a warm day today. >> thank you. construction under way on a major condo tower on the san francisco waterfront down the street from us at abc 7. it's going up on the corner of howard street and the embarcadero. city and labor leaders held a groundbreaking yesterday. here is video of the site. we will take you from drone view 7 to see what it looks like. the 20-story building will include 120 units, supposed to have spectacular views of the

waterfront, prominent on the skyline and provide 200 construction jobs. >> it's not off we get to work on a new project on san francisco's waterfront. something that people will see coming across that bridge, something that they will see coming in on the ferry, something our members can be proud of. this will be a handsome building. i think it's going to be a great addition to san francisco. >> this is expected to be one of the last new condo complexes on the waterfront and should be ready by late next year. a head's up before you brush your teeth this morning. water pick is recalling thousands of electric toothbrushes because they could be unsafe. the charging station of the sonic fusion flossing toothbrush can overheat and catch fire. no other water pick flossers and toothbrushes are affected. if you own one, logon to abc7news.com for additional details. some of the best rugby teams in the entire world are in the bay area on the

field there's time for singing and dancing? ♪ >> abc 7 news was in union square for a performance of song and dance to celebrate the rugby world cup 7s tournament in san francisco. the dancers are here to support their team. the world cup 7s tournament features teams from 29 different nations and takes place friday through sunday at at&t park. >> the espy awards will air live tonight at 8:00. sports director larry beil will be on the red carpet before and after the show and catch his live reports on abc 7 news at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00. it's 4:55 a.m. we're tracking the fog in a lot of spots. the visibility in the north bay, napa down to one mile. similar story in half moon bay. the picture right now we'll take you to the exploratorium camera, san francisco that deck of cloud cover overhead. highs later today we will see sunnier skies this afternoon. we've been in the pattern for

several days. it will be hot inland nearing 100 degrees in our warmest spots. 71 in san francisco, 87 san jose and napa, up to 89 degrees. >> good morning, drew. no major here's a live look at our walnut creek commute, north of 24, moving along just fine and that overnight work inside caldecott tunnel continuing that way, they reopened after the mechanical work around 4:00 today. no delays there. taking you out to the central valley, delays, normal vols on the westbound side, 580, 14 miles an hour, eastbound side. we'll take a look at drive times next. >> thank you. the area around jupiter is much more crowded than we thought. >> and you know what, i thought it was crowded. that's good to know. a team of astronomers found 12

more moons circling the planet. that brings the number of moons around jupiter to 79. the astronomers spotted the moons searching for objects on the fringes of our solar system. scientists say they weren't seen before because they'rethne are across. >> that makes sense. old parking meters have new life in santa rosa. 80 have been stacked together to form a solar powered sculpture. it's downtown on fifth street and mendocino avenue next to the exchange bank. once the wiring is finished this will feature an interactive light display. that's a cool idea. love it. >> coming up next at 5:00 a.m., an mma fighter takes down a suspected burglar near san diego. >> and the fight isn't over for campus police officers fired at uc berkley. uc berkley. >> an apology from

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sonoma. good morning east bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is "abc 7 mornings." good morning. it is wednesday, july 18th. 5:00 a.m. >> never more than 7 minutes away from your accuweather forecast. meteorologist drew tuma has a first look at the day ahead. >> good morning, guys. the issue we have early on on our wednesday is fog. that low cloud cover has descended and dense. half moon bay we're at one mile visibility. napa up to three miles right now. you will encounter areas of dense fog early on. san jose, a live look, clouds overhead. your 12 hour day planner features the cloud cover, areas of dense fog. by noon the clouds confined to the coast and by 4:00 later on this afternoon, it is sunny but will be rather hot inland. today is the warmest day we have all week. the sun going down at 8:29 p.m. that's weather. see how the roads are doing. >> good morning.

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