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the acreages. the ranch fire is the larger of the two and is burning northeast of ukiah. the river fire is burning near the community of hopland. >> vic lee is live near a community meeting. >> reporter: well, larry, the community meeting obviously is to update residents of lake county on the progress firefighters are making. already today most of the residents of kelseyville where i am and the nearby town of hopland are being allowed back into their homes. there will be a measure of good news here tonight. the mendocino complex fires are still burning uncontrolled. a fire that's consumed some 31,000 acres in lake county alone. but last night firefighters made progress. the southern flank called conta. evacuation orders were lifted, and most of kelseyville. jeremy and simone dotton where
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on their way home. >> what did you miss most? >> our bed. >> reporter: still this warning from cal fire. >> just because you do come back to your home doesn't mean the fire is out. >> reporter: a sign of normalcy returning, the town post office reopened today. a sigh of relief for many, like doug wallen. he had important and timely mail to send. >> it's the beginning of the month, if you don't get it to the credit card companies, they still fine you. so anyway. >> reporter: the gas mart that cut its hours returned to business as usual. most of the customers we met defied the evacuation order and stayed home. >> we worked our butts off for everything we have and we don't want to lose it. >> i was going to take care of the house. >> many stayed because they were afraid of looters. yesterday police and sheriff's deputies arrested eight people who were trespassing in the evacuated town of lakeport. >> we've gotten a couple people that have outstanding warrants.
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there was at least one person that had a significant amount of mia methamphetamine on his person. >> reporter: shelly barnes also stayed, but not to protect her property. she was afraid the power would go off. >> we're on a well. animals would start dying without water. we weren't going to let that happen. >> her animals, three horses and this -- >> come say hi. >> reporter: an 800 pound pet pig called mouse. >> reporter: well, an 800 pound pig called mouse. how can you top that? i'm just going to sign off. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> yeah, i don't think you can, thank you, vic. well, the stats are staggering. take a look at this map that we're about to show you, 16 major fires burning right now across california. 32,000 people are out of their homes. the governor talked about the fire fight late this morning. >> we're in a new n we're inhthat will continue. now, whether technically you
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call it a drought, that's a matter for the weather people. but i would suspect there will be more fires to come.ye, for a very long time. >> we have 13,000 firefighters spread out to battle these flames. 17 states are sending resources from as far away as florida and maine. in previous years cal fire might have to face tease types of conditions in late august or september. now fire season could extend until december. just a few hours ago senator dianne feinstein tweeted the senate passed her provision to transfer seven c-130 air tankers to california. the tankers will join in the fight against the wild fires. crews are gaining ground on the carr fire this afternoon. it's now 115,000 acres, 35% contained. esem mall community of is the
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threatened there, and more than 1,400 have already been destroyed. among all tnot all of the ur animals. >> one woman found her beloved horse was still alive thanks to abc 7. >> hey, baby girl. how are you? >> reporter: you can't say everything is back to normal for terry fox of redding and her 3-year-o 3-year-old mare ellie. >> he's got a puncture wound here and here and lacerations right there. >> reporter: but no burns even though she was running loose in the thick of the carr fire. she's one of three formerly wild horses that terry was trying to evacuate by trailer as the flames closed in. ellie refused to get in. >> i had to turn my back on her and make a hard decision to leave her there. >> reporter: there were rumors she had been spotted in various areas, but nothing solid until someone told terry to look at this video from abc 7 sneeze
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laura anthony and of fire crews trying to calm a runaway horse. >> it's got to be here, it looked just like her. >> reporter: but ellie got away that time, later someone, terry thinks it was animal control, located ellie and reunited them. it's not all over yet. terry's home survived, but it's still in the evacuation zone. she's staying with a new friend joe knee who's putting up her horses and their family until they can go home. >> i've made a wonderful friend in terry, already made plans to go riding together after this is all over. >> reporter: jodi's also taken in other animals, four baby goats, 30 chickens and a couple potbelly pigs. >> these people were strangers and they opened up their homes and said come on in, we'll take your animals, stay here and live here. >> the evacuees are grateful and hoping to help out in return one day without the fire as the
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inventive. in redding, eric thomas, abc 7 news. another wildfire burning in mendocino county has now grown to a thousand acres. the so-called eel fire broke out yesterday afternoon 40 miles north of the mendocino complex fires. this is new video of the fire fight from the air. road closures and evacuations are in place for many residents in the community of covello, no containment to that fire. take a look at the satellite image from the national ocean antic a atmospheric administration, you can see how much spoke is coming off these fires. according to noaa, there are 98 active fires burning this week. spencer christian, for a closer look at the conditions the firefighters are facing. no change in the weather conditions near these fires, at least no helpful or encouraging change to the fire fighting effort. conditions near the ranch fire,
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89 degrees right now, relative humidity, 28%, wind gusting to 27 miles per hour. river fire, 93 degrees, 24% humidity, 21 miles per hour wind gusts. tapering off tomorrow morning, 8:00 or sor. they will intensify again late in the day and into tomorrow eening. now, over at the carr fire it is 100 degrees right now, or at the nearest reporting station, relative humidity, 24%. wind gusting to 15 miles per hour. if you're hoping for rain, not much to hope for, looking at the august average, most bay area locations received a couple hundredths of ichlg inches of rain. in ukiah, one tenth of an inch. we're hoping for weather conditions to change cooler, calmer wind, higher humidity.
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rain is not likely. for the latest information on these fires, go to abc7news.com as well as the abc 7 news app. make sure you enable the push alerts. that way you can be sure you get the latest breaking fire news as soon as it happens. well, today nearly 400 family members, friends and former teammates of dwight clark filled grace cathedral for a private service. >> he died on june 4th from als, this debilitating disease. it may have taken away control of his body, but the remembrances today made it clear dwight's spirit never waned. >> reporter: the stories about dwight clark are funny and uplifts. this is definitely a difficult loss. he was known for humility, kindness, charisma, loyalty, compassion, and his sense of humor. he will be part of the san francisco history for the catch. to those who knew him, clark's
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biesinuences the manner in we ved. >> reporter: nfl commissioner roger goodell and nancy pelosi were among the dignitaries who celebrated dwa celebrated dwight clark's life. he chose the people himself to speak at his funeral. >> this is probably one of the toughest things i've ever had to do. >> the difficulties were overcome by the pure joy clark was known to bring to the fans and all of those who knew him best. >> anybody that knew dwight would not want a solemn, sad service. he would want an all-out celebration. and he would never want it to be about him. he would want it to be about us. >> he had this southern accent, and he was so incredibly good
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willing, with a big smile and infectious laugh. i knew we would instantly be friends. >> the one thing that he always would say to me, though, is, you know, they don't call it the throw. you, dc, yes, that's true my friend, and i will catch you on the other side. >> reporter: the former team owner has the goal post from that game in which the catch took place on his ranch in montana. a portion of his ashes were sprinkled underneath those goal posts. his 49ers legacy is well marked, indeed. >> joe montana, great timing on that. >> great timing. that was really good. >> you worked with dwight doing
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preand post-game shows for years. can you share personally what this loss means for you? >> it was hard. there were a lot of tears today. it was a great, beautiful service and so many wonderful sri a humor eayth heas aenne only 61 years old in the manner we lost him was certainly had. he made work fun, every day he made work fun. >> just to share with everybody, when i came in the office, i saw mindy, she said i've been crying all day. i know it's a hard day. thanks so much. >> anytime. a new ruling on so-called sanctuary cities, a judge says the federal government cannot withhold funds, what that means for sanctuary cities and the federal government, plus -- >> you know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need id. >> reaction today to the president's comments about id cards, and what his press
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and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program call or visit we're on live tv, kari, any day we can get six feet of sun sunshine in our studio. this is beach volleyball kari walsh jennings. >> they call you 'ol blue eyes. >> beautiful eye yrself.anyway,. kari has big event you're bringing to the south bay.
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it's called p 144 of. explain what this is. >> it's hard to say, but it looks really good. platform. event series in the what does that mean? we are having a festival, our first event will be in san jose the last weekend in september. we will have the best in the world beach volleyball competing for the crown, we have prize money. a health and wellness village, live musk, foster the people, we have an amazing music lineup, personal development experiences so you can come get strong, train as the athletes do, they're bb guns, i shouldn't have done that. but basically we're a festival. it's all about people, 1440 is there are 1,440 minutes in every day. >> i was doing the math, what does that mean? >> that's all you get every day. that's not that much. for me, my husband, for so long was like, kari, you've got to spend your time mindfully.
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i was in a sports psychologist session, and my psychologist was, like, kari, you only get 1,440 minutes, what are you going to do with it? we want to elevate the sport of beach volleyball. the pros are not pros anymore, they're hobbyists. >> there should be more money in the sport. this is at the end of september, and you're doing this not just in san jose, this is one event, you're around the country with this, right? >> we're largely west coast in our first year. four events in 2018. we also go to las vegas, an olympic qualifier. we are in san diego and huntington. the goal is to create more momentum, more magic to revolutionize the way the sport is brought to the market. number one sport in the olympics every summer, it's nuts, volleyball and beach volleyball together.
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the market supports us. we have to be more relevant. we want to be the nba of beach volleyball. >> that's ambitious. let's talk about you personally. we've seen you in the olympics for many years, and people remember you from stanford, you grew up in the bay. but mom of three, i believe. >> yes. >> so how are you -- i mean, first of all, launching this endeavor, you've got a whole family, you've got this whole business you're trying to do, and i'm sure you're playing on the side as well. so how are you doing all this, like this is a huge undertaking? >> man, i do it as i've done all things in my life with great faith, with great focus, and belief, and with a team that supports me, that complements me that gets things done. our team at p1440 is incredible. my children are incredible, my husband makes it all go. you know, you have to surround yourself by that which you love and by that which makes you better. and that is my life in a nutshell. i want to give access to that to you, to the world.
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you know? >> now you know why they call her six feet of sunshine. look at the camera. you can't not be -- feel better during your day when you see kari. >> yeah? >> no, it's true. every time we do interviews i always feel after we're done, i'm like, oh, so nice to see kari. but i learned today that you played in high school, if you remember this, against our own ama daetz. see the pictures. look at ama. >> i remember you from this picture. i swear. >> oh, come on. >> i swear. >> she played for lee high school. >> how did that match go? because kari must have crushed you. >> we had very good teams. but you had some ringers. >> we had a good time as well. we always knew kari walsh was going really far. >> i want to, and i'm going to my sixth olympics in tokyo we're building 1440. we won a bronze in rio. i want to go out on top. >> you've got a lot of stuff
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going on. go on the website. and ama, i asked her, she said i dug her a few times. >> no one digs me. are you kidding? >> it's a challenge. >> i've got to get a hug from you. good to see you again. >> one more thing, p1440.c tickets go on sale tomorrow. >> god, she's really 6'3". >> i am not. 6'2" and a bit. all the guys say this. >> it's good to see you. >> see you in september? >> larry always needs uplifting, you know. a young man from contra costa county is tied for the lead at the boys junior championship. he shot a 6 under par, 66, in the opening round louisville, kentucky. he played a bogey free round. he said, quote, i know you can't win the tournament in the first
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round, but i put myself in good position for the next three days. he will be a freshman this year at st. mary's college in moraga. wow, good for him. >> well, do we need larry for this? i don't think so. spencer, i think you can handle weather. >> i'll just introduce myself. >> get over to the green screen. >> here i am with weather. some fog near the coastline. we have sunny areas as well. certainly sunny areas over the bay and inland. here's the view from sutro tower looking at san francisco, hints of misty fog pushing out over the city. oakland, 64, 64 in mountain view. san jose 79, 90 at morgan hill. 57 at half moon bay. the view from emeryville, we don't see quite as deep or prominent marine layer yet as we did this hour yesterday. 79 in santa rosa. 72 in napa. 84 in novato. 90 at concord. here's how it looks from the
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east bay hills. foster features, fog overnight once again into our early morning hours. hazy, smokey, aer sesre tomorro minor temperature swings going through the weekend. right now it is breezy, all around the bay area, we have wind speeds at the surface of mainly 15 to about 25 miles per hour across the bay area. the winds will diminish overnight as the winds will up in the fires north. winds will intensify again. overnight lows with a little bit of fog pushing out over the bay. mainly mid to upper 50s, there's a chance of spotty drizzle along the coastline. tomorrow, sunny skies once again, except for some parts of the coast. highs range from about 60s at the coast, upper 60s and mid-70s around the bay, mid to upper 80s inland. not likely inland locations -- all concerned about air quality with the fires raging all over the state, especially the ones close to the bay area where we still have and will have
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tomorrow mainly good air quality indicated by the yellow and green circles. however, the farther east and north you look, go poorer, the air quality becomes because of the accumulating smoke. the areas of orange and red indicate poor to unhealthful air quality. that continues as long as those fires continue to burn. generally, i should mention, the wind is flowing from west to east, although a little bit northwest to southeast and it's carrying smoke continuously into these regions. back to the accuweather seven-day forecast here in the bay area, we'll see a slight warmup on friday and saturday. inland highs will move into the low 90s. but nothing very extreme. and temperatures sort of drop off again on sunday and monday. and then we have a little bit of an upswing in temperatures again tuesday and wednesday. and as i pointed out earlier in the program, now that we're in the month of august, don't expect much rainfall this month. the average here is generally a couple hundredths of an inch of rain for the whole month. we could certainly use some to help contain the fires. but it's not likely. it's not something we should
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mentioned tesla was looking to hire game developers as well. if online gaming is more your style, new twist here. parents are hiring tutors to help their kids bring up their scores. we're talking about the shoot up victim called fortnite. all the teenagers are playing, this game million players worldwide. it's become kind of a social proving ground for a lot of kids since other friends that they have that play, everybody knows your scores, right, so some parents are now shelling out money to coaches to make sure junior starts winning at fortnite. >> our time with them is super limited, especially with work, and i was kind of watching them play, and i thought, like, i should check this out. >> a lot of people say paying for a video coach is no different than hiring a pitching or a basketball coach. i don't know. facebook is instagram is jumping into the battle over
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social media addiction, the company rolled out a setting called your time and your activity. this breaks down the time you're using on each app on a daily and weekly basis. you can mute the push notifications and set limits. the tool will let you know when you've gone over and it can also halt your ability to use the apps. >> that could be eye opening for a lot of people. >> for sure. targeting crime and homelessness, san francisco mayor london breed science a new budget for the city. we're going to break it down for you just ahead. an apology from alaska airlines after a gay couple says they were asked to separate what does help for heart failure look like? ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten. ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. ♪ la-di-la-di. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart... so you can keep on doing what you love. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital.
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>> announcer: live where you live, this is abc 7 news. and here are the stories making headlines at 4:30. two fires continue to ravage northern california, the mendocino complex fires in lake and mendocino counties have burned more than 91,000 acres, the carr fire has burned 115,000 acres, a thousand homes have been destroyed. abc 7 news reporter vic lee tweets this photo from lake county community of kelseyville where evacuation orders have been lifted. eric thomas tweets a similar scene. evacuation orders were lifted here today, and first responders and pg&e meeting with residents as they drive into their community to check out their homes.
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san francisco's new mayor london breed signed a new two-year budget for the city. it targets homelessness, housing, street cleanliness and public safety. lean lyanne melendez joins us live to break it all down. >> reporter: if you live or work here in san francisco, homelessness is a big problem you know. housing, how many teachers, for example, do you know that can't afford to live here? street cleaning? well, look around you. and third or fourth of public safety, most of us have been victim of smash and grab. now, this is an $11 billion budget, $5.5 billion each year. she signed a budget negotiated by all city supervisors, 11 billion needed to run the city over the next two years and address our most pressing problems. on the top of that list is homelessness. an additional $60 million will be spent on a number of new services, including $4.4 million
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on a navigation center for homeless youth, 12 million will go to rapid re-housing programs for those who have just become homeless. and 6 million to fund street medical teams. a first in the nation program to bring treatment directly to people suffering with addiction on our streets. >> reporter: the problems on the streets here have become so overwhelming that it's only natural that some people are skeptical. >> you want to have faith and hope. you hope they try. at the end of the day the problem is systematic. throwing money at that issue is doing only so much. it's a band aid more than a solution. >> reporter: money will go to create 330 new permanent supportive housing units like this one for people with disabilities who don't have a place to live. that's where mayor breed held her event today. more than 800 million will be used to construct and preserve nearly 3,000 units of affordable housing. more money will also be spent for comprehensive street
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cleaning. >> when you walk the streets, you will feel the difference. >> reporter: now, those -- that's one of those sound bites that you want to keep and use for much later. now, you heard me say more, more and more. and today the president of the board of supervisors reassured everyone that no cuts were made to fund these programs. the city, she says, is in the black for now. i'm live in city hall -- from city hall, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> speaking of more, lyanne, how much more are we spending just on the homeless services? >> reporter: yeah, well i did take a look at those numbers. and let's compare them now. when then mayor ed lee decided to have his 2017 -- or present his 2017 budget, he asked for and he did receive about $305 million just for homeless
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services. the year before that it was about $275. and right now we're close to $365 million. >> all right,or that report. well, california's ninth circuit court of appeals has ruled president trump's executive order on sanctuary cities is unconstitutional. the order threatened to withhold funding from cities that didn't cooperate with immigration authorities. it came from san francisco and santa clara countys. the trump administration said the order applies to a small amount of money in compliance. jeff sessions was ordered to end special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian election interference. the president tweeted that sessions should top this nfgts right now because it's hurting the united states. the white house said it's an opinion, not an order. however, the republican senator
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susan collins of maine said it was highly inappropriate. and it's evidence of obstructing justice. >> that's ridiculous. if the president is innocent, he should act like it and he should cooperate with the mueller investigation, have it go through to its logical conclusion and then have his name cleared. >> sessions recused himself from the investigation because of conflict of interest concerns. so far the justice department declined to comment on mr. trump's tweet. >> the president raised some eyebrows last night during a rally in florida over his comments promoting voter identification. >> if you go out and you want to buy groceries you need a picture on a card. you need id. you go out and you want to buy anything, you need id, and you need your picture. >> the comment prompted some to wonder if the president didn't understand how grocery shopping worked. the white house tried to clarify the remarks today. >> pretty sure that everybody in here who's been to a grocery store that's purchased beer or wine has had to show their id.
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if they didn't, that's probably a problem with the grocery store. >> sanders couldn't say when the president last went into a grocery store. the white house launched an investigation into illegal voting last year. the president shut it down in january without significant findings. new cell phone video know shows the moment of impact when an aero mexico plane crashed in mexico. and there you see the result. the crash happened yesterday afternoon in durango after the plane took off. they took off during a storm. there were 103 people on board. the plane, miraculously no one killed. most only had minor injuries. calling a seating mixup. a man on a flight from new york to los angeles he had to give up
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his premium coach seat to accommodate a straight couple. the man and his partner objected. the gate agent told the man he had to move to coach or get off the plane. the gay couple got off the plane and voiced their outrage on social media. the couple has accepted the airline's apology. a diamond in the rough, a family fire. a common cause of wildfires, and what you can do to make sure you're not at fault. mainly clear skies right now, fog building along the coastline. i'll give you a look at how far it might pus
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may qualify for home internet at a discounted rate of $10 a month. no commitment, deposit, or installation fee. visit att.com/accessnow to learn more. more now on our coverage of the devastating wildfires all across northern california. >> the property loss from the carr fire is most poignant when you look at before and after photos in the affected neighborhoods. abc 7 news anchor kristen sze is here with a closer look. >> ama and larry, drone view 7 got special permission to fly over the neighborhood of redding yesterday. we created a still image of the dramatic destruction on foot bridge court. look how that looked before on google maps, stunning. the tragedy that swept through this nice little street with ten homes, again, the destruction. this is the after the fire
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photo. we'll go back to before. you can just keep looking at this and get the breadth of the tragedy there. we want to show you another view. take a look at this one. we're going to pull out that same court, just a different vantage point. see that house at the very end of the cul-de-sac, the only one out of the ten that survived. and if you look towards your left you'll see a swimming pool filled with soot, also destroyed. we want to go ahead and show you a different view yet again. i took a before and after. this is, again, before of the neighborhood, see on the left that beautiful crystalline swimming pool, look at it afterwards, filled with soot and just look at the devastation on foot bridge court. the only home that survived where everything else burned just a stunning look. this is one street, of course, one story, one tragedy, and, of course there's so many of them. larry and ama?heng we,ir
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ikingtave be refighrsaveotf ahd o d now many people are saying that californians need to do more to help with fire prevention. >> chris nguyen in san jose w that story. >> reporter: these students in the college of engineering are getting a crash course on vehicle maintenance. it's a timely lesson. >> this is a combustion engine. you need to maintain it fairly well. >> reporter: the other week professor fred berez was driving south down interstate 280 when sparks started flying from his engine. likely related to a nest created by a rat. ehengineest is nothitt g into 'soing t >>iforniowxtdee a thi
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ferng you vehic isimportant. you have to water and maintain the oil in the engine, maintain the transmission. you have to maintain. >> cal fire says the deadly car fire was ignited by vehicle malfunction last week. dry conditions have made california prime for wildfires. >> the poorly maintained cause sparks. >> some good reminders. in san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >> announcer: now your accuweather forecast with spencer christian. here's a look at live doppler 7, mainly sunny skies over the bay and inland, of course. coastal areas are enjoying sunny
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skies. overnight lows mainly mid to upper 50s. spotty drizzle near the coastline. here's an animation of the movement of the fog overnight. it won't push very far. not widespread except along the coastline. the fog will pull back on the coastline rather quickly, and much of it tomorrow afternoon will have sunny skies as well. high temperatures will range from 60 in the mildest coast allocations to upper 60s and mid-70s around the bay. mid to upper 80s inland generally. this is the accuweather seven-day forecast showing a warmup on friday and saturday as inland highs will climb into the low 90s. not a lot of change on the coast though. minor cooling on sunday and monday with temperatures sort of rebounding by two or three or four degrees tuesday and wednesday. not much variation over the man gives up his teaching career to shop for a living.
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we've got a couple of months left in baseball's regular season. a's are playing really well. it's a good time to think about how to make the most of the remaining games this season. >> yes, and here to help us with that is michael finney. >> it is always a good time to get the most of your money. that's really what we're talking about here. how to have the best fan experience. dollar for dollar when attending a giants or a's game. here with all the inside tips is the head of partnerships for stubhub. half my family root for the giants, the other half for the a's. i need help here. >> that's not an easy problem to have. >> it is not. makes dinners a tad rowdy sometimes. ultimate fan experience, what is that? >> yeah. so, you know, you've probably heard stubhub as being -- we are your ticket to getting into an event. we want fans to have an incredible experience while they're there at the event. you have family who are fans.
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you know what it's like being at a baseball game. some of my favorite memories growing up are catching foul balls when i was at a game. catching a home run. i've got one home run ever. we want fans to have an understanding, when buying tickets, where to experience these things, where the best food is, what the best sections to sit in are if you want to catch a foul ball. we've done that for the majority of the ballparks across the country. >> talk about here. say you want to catch the foul ball. i talked to a guy who's been a thousand giants games. >> i hope he bought all those tickets on never caught a foul ball? >> never has. so where do you sit? >> the best place, club sections on either side. if you're watching the a's, it's behind home plate. but, you know, hopefully he can get a game at one of those seats, and he can catch a ball. because a thousand games without
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a foul ball, that's really tough. >> brutal. where is your best view both of those parks? >> the best view in the bleachers for the a's. the view section for at&t. but i will tell you this, so i'm i'm not from san francisco. i still remember my first ball game at at&t stadium. it's just walking into that stadium, the view is spectacular anywhere. >> anywhere, with you on that. let's talk about -- that's where you catch a foul ball. how about a home run? >> home run, generally the bleachers. in both parks, the bleachers are where you can most likely catch the home run. you're most likely going to have to fight a few folks for it. >> food. what's the best? >> i'm biased. we talk about the garlic fries. i love fries. at at&t, i think, you know,
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ballpark food has been getting so much better. and there's so much more variety. in san francisco, we're the hub of food. so both ballparks have really, really great food options, can't go wrong. >> just wander around. >> can't go wrong, get the garlic fries. >> okay. best place for a selfie? and best place to get your picture taken if you want to be on the kiss cam. >> the kiss cam i can't speak to. not sure you always want to be on there. the selfie, the willie statue, can't miss it. and we have these for not just bay area teams, but we have these guides up on stubhub.com for the majority of baseball teams. >> i with us today. we have a link on our website so you can check out any ballpark you can go to and where the coolest places are to
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an experimental state program is taking off, market match, matches dollar for dollar the amount cal freshers spend at local markets. berkeley's ecology center announced the results. 73% say the inventive helped them buy more produce. officials say an additional $10 million in funding for market match. >> a florida man said good-bye to the classroom and hello to doubling his income by delivering groesh res. he spent 20 years teaching students, never making more than $50,000 a year. tired of working two jobs to make ends meet, he became an employee of the internet grocery delivery service called shipped. >> i make over $100,000 a year. >> delivering groceries. >> delivering groceries. i guess my approach and making sure that i know my customers,
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and know exactly what they want. >> ed works up to 60 hours per week, and doesn't get summers off anymore. but he says the raise in pay is more than worth it. >> that's remarkable. i like that. i've got to talk to -- i've got to get the se cereal. the possibilities being considered to get you where you need to go without the hassle. kristen's here with what's coming up on abc 7 news at 5:00. new at 5:00, the government issues an alert, the salads sold at major chain stores and the concern over contamination. also ahead after a night of flames and sparks, some people are starting to return in redding. we have the story of one neighborhood going back home. and why you might want to check for signs of surfing if someone you know goes missing on september 20th. these what does help for heart failure look like? ♪ the beat goes on. it looks like emily cooking dinner for ten.
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hour it can take 26 minutes by car to drive eight miles from downtown san jose to cupertino, home to the new spaceship offices at apple park, and double that, one full hour to go by bus. how do you get across silicon valley faster and smarter? the answer could be hyperloop at speeds up to 670 miles an hour, about as fast as a commercial jet liner. the potential benefit came up at cupertino's city council meeting. >> this has come to a realization. >> andrew walters says it's one of several ideas to address congestion. he's board chair of the chamber of commerce. busy stevens creek boulevard has a center median to support a path for a hyperloop. it needs to be broader than cupertino. hyperloop within cupertino is not something that would produce benefits. it needs to be a regional
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solution. >> reporter: the idea is so new. it's expected it could cost in the billions and billions of dollars. to help pay for that, they're thinking about a public/private partnership. so far version hyperloop one says it's not had any discussions about cupertino's initiative. >> it's possible you could see a new system, most optimistic, somewhere in the neighborhood of five to eight years. >> entails brainstorming with neighboring cities. in cupertino, david louie, abc 7 news. whether it's a hyperloop or some other system, in the start in san jose, and extend to danza college. the goal, service every two minutes. you can get the latest news anytime with the abc 7 news app. it is enhanced live features and personalized push alerts to get the news you want to your phone in realtime. thank you for joining us today for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm ama dates. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts now.
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huge relief, seeing all my stuff there. >> returning home. talking with people allowed back to their houses today. plus the latest on the northern california fire fights. >> a deadly accident, a man run over in a parking garage where people who knew him say he may have been doing inside. a sea lion mom and pup rescued. we'll explain what's going on in this video. lessening the line, how the dmv is making it eadsisier for to get in. >> announcer: live where you live, this is abc 7 news. it is very serious. we've seen the lives that have been lost. whatever resources are needed, we're putting them there. a promise to tackle the fires that have forced thousands from their homes. we have new video of the carr fire, governor jerry brown saying the state will spend whatever it takes to get control of these flames. we have a map showing you where fires are burning in california right now. 13,000 firefighters have
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responded to 16 fires, more than a dozen states are also sending additional help. good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm larry beil in for dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze. the biggest battle closest to us is burning mainly in lake county. the ranch and river fires total 90,000 acres. that's about the same size as fremont, union city and milpitas combined. get to vic lee with the latest. >> reporter: well, larry, there's a community meeting here at kelseyville high school. supposed to start in an hour. there have been plenty of developments in the past 24 hours. for one thing, most of the residents of kelseyville where i'm at and nearby hopland are being allowed back into their homes now. the southern flank called the river fire is now 38% contained. evacuation orders were
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