wildfires. it would cost the county $475,000. eight cameras would be positioned on communication towers and other existing structures to spot fires in the lake sonoma watershed. they hope they will one day allow firefighters to detect wildfires the moment they begin. >> interesting idea. anything we can do to get a heads-up when the fires begin. it's been such a bad fire season already. >> one of the worst. at 4:30 in the morning, we'll check in with weather and traffic. we start with mike. >> hi, everybody. let's take a look at live doppler 7. it tells the tale of the morning. more gray out there this morning. mist and even drizzle as you get near the coast in san francisco. you can see from our exploratorium camera at pier 15, we're seeing a lowering of the clouds here and a little moisture infusion. temperature about the same. mid to upper 50s at 7:00. as we head through the 12-hour planner, we'll stay at the 50s at the coast, low to upper 70s at the bay, and low 80s to low 90s inland from noon to 4:00. we'll be back in the 50s if we

ever leave them in a few selected spots along the coast. the rest of us in the 70s by 7:00. let's talk about the fire when we come back. conditions in one respect are going to get worse the next couple days. >> good morning, mike. we're starting off incident-free this morning so no major blocking issues and really quiet to kick off the tuesday morning drive. we have a stack-up in the cash lanes for the bay bridge toll plaza, but fast track users will not have delays and we should have under an hour to go before they turn the metering lights on. westbound 580, tracy to dublin, our only drive time in the yellow. 37 minutes. westbound 4, antioch to concord in the green at 13, and southbound 101 could have fog along that stretch, san rafael to san francisco, not slowing you down in the green at 16 minutes. >> speaking of the commute, this morning b.a.r.t. riders may notice more officers as the agency is trying to reassure riders the system is safe. >> fr after a series of high profile and deadly attacks,

b.a.r.t. attempts to repair its image and holes its in security. amy hollyfield is live for us in pleasanton. >> hi, reggie. b.a.r.t. is looking at spending $28 million on improving safety and is even looking at turning to technology to try to help them solve this issue. one b.a.r.t. director says he wants to look at the idea of using facial recognition technology. the idea is to try and add the technology to b.a.r.t.'s 4,000 cameras and to use the technology to keep riders who are known to pose a threat to the system, get them out of the system. but riders we talked to are skeptical. >> i think a lot of people are going to have a lot of suspicions. a lot of paranoia about it and it may be more trouble than it's actually worth. >> i think that is a bad idea. i just think that it impedes more on our own privacy and because it's technology, there may be some errors.

>> officials behind this idea promise it would target people who have warrants out for their arrest, but yes, there are questions about the accuracy of the technology. the idea will be proposed at b.a.r.t.'s board meeting on thursday. reporting live from the dublin b.a.r.t. station, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you. a facial recognition system is in place this morning on the san jose airport. security officials unveiled it yesterday. it will scan the faces of passengers arriving on international flights. the system will cut the time they have to wait to pass through security to about 22 minutes. right now, it can take up to a half hour. the airport is the first on the west coast to use this technology. happening today, california lawmakers will hold a t s t issue of those extremely long wait times at the state's dmv offices. phil ting from san francisco and jim frazier will spearhead

efforts to find solutions. wait times have grown out of control because of a crush of people trying to get those federally compliant real i.d.s. the dmv recently expanded saturday hours to try to cut down on wait times. >> now to the peninsula where one city is debating just how high buildings should rise into the sky. san mateo city hall rejected a proposed ballot proposal. the limit expires in 2020. supporters of the proposal say the city doesn't have the infrastructure to support taller buildings and the larger population that would come with it. opponents argue the city needs more housing. san francisco police want to find the two people who beat an man and woman who offered the 86-year-old a ride. happened in the mission district sunday night. police say the attackers asked the man if he needed a ride near 16th and hauf streets. when he got in, they asked him

for money and then punched him as he tried to get out. the man is expected to be okay. the paul manafort trial continues today in virginia. this follows explosive testimony yesterday. the prosecution's star witness took the stand and testified he helped president trump's former campaign chair commit crimes. abc news reporter linda lopez has the story. >> the hugely anticipated courtroom showdown bringing paul manafort face-to-face with rick gates. gates' explosive testimony key to the prosecution's case against manafort in the first trial stemming from robert mueller's russia investigation. before working together on the trump campaign, manafort and gates spent years working together making huge salaries consulting for foreign political clients. now, manafort on trial for falsifying tax returns and failing to report millions in income. and gates, having pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities, now testifying against his former

boss. gates telling jurors that over several years, they hid their income in foreign bank accounts. at least some of the money hidden coming from mab afort's work on behalf of ukrainian politicians with deep ties to russia. this criminal case has nothing to do with either man's work for the trump campaign and no discussion during the trial about whether the trump campaign coordinated with russia, but rick gates is a crucial witness for the government since he pleaded guilty to the two felony charges and agreed to cooperate in robert mueller's russia investigation. linda lopez, abc news, new york. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. let's head up to the mendocino complex fires and in the valleys where our ranch fire observation station is, it's very calm this morning. the hills are at about 2800 feet. winds are still gusting 14 to 20 miles per hour add least over the river fire. you see how things can spread in the overnight hours. let's take a look at the winds

over the next 24 hours and they'll remain pretty quiet. they'll pick up about 10 to 15 in the afternoon and evening hours and drop down to calm conditions overnight. now, this is going to allow the heat to build up, 98 today. 100 tomorrow and thursday. and then mid to upper 90s friday through next monday. back here at home, just a touch cooler in san francisco. that mist hanging in the air. 51 at glen park to about 54 in many neighborhoods. lake merced, sunset, and the financial district. here's a look at south beach. the clouds hanging a little low. didn't need the windshield wipers when i was driving in buzz you may as you get close to the coast. ferry rides choppy this afternoon and mass transit has a huge summer spread once again. the south bay, 65 waking up with increasing sunshine to 79 at noon. and then we'll hang out in the mid 80s most of the afternoon hours, down to about 80 at 6:00, and 72 at 8:00. that's pretty comfortable. unlike the ride was yesterday

morning on the bay bridge, how are we doing this morning? >> nothing like that today. in fact, we're extremely quiet here this morning all the way around. i'm having a tough time finding anything, any slow spots to show you. here's a look at walnut creek, 680 in the southbound direction, slowly starting to fill in. just north of treat boulevard. that's about it for you so far today. just those typical volumes starting to fill in just a little bit here. mostly green on our traffic maps. really the only red we're seeing still getting out of the tri-valley. that's not terrible, although it is quite a bit slower than just a few minutes ago. westbound 205 was at 30 miles per hour, down to 25 now. we'll take a closer look at mass transitt coming up in ten minutes. thank you. two new programs getting bay area kids off the sidewalks and onto a bike. the life lessons they are learning. a $30,000 cello leaves an american airlines passenger fuming and singing the blues.

>> and one charger hmm. [cell phone beeps] hey! [police whistle blows] [horns honking] woman: hey! [bicycle bell rings] turn here. there. excuse me. uh.

uh. [indistinct announcement on p.a. system] so, same time next week? well, of course. announcer: put away a few bucks. feel like a million bucks. for free tips to help you save, go to ♪ feed the pig

nearly 4 million people across the state will be breathing potentially hazardous air, and it starts around lake tahoe. dense smoke advisory until 5:00 this evening. still have this huge area across the southern half of the centra

people still dealing with poor air quality, and the same area yesterday continues today for the high fire danger around santa barbara in the mountains north of l.a. 94 in l.a. 115 in palm springs. 91 in yosemite with the poor air quality. it does filter into tahoe and may stay there through at least thursday when we reach 90 degrees. >> all right, thank you. >> we're getting a look at the man accused of putting an m-80 style firework under a sonoma county sheriff's deputy car. the department shared this picture of 22-year-old trysten protoo. they say he decided to light the firework under the car on friday because he does not like the sheriff's office. happened at the guerneville safeway parking lot. he tried to run from the scene but he was caught. the bomb squad responded and blew up his backpack, fearing it contained other explosives.

meanwhile, investigators also say proto was doing meth right before the explosion. >> a musician says she was kicked off an american airlines flight after she bought a separate seat for her $30,000 cello. the woman flew to miami from chicago, no problems there. she says the crew even helped strap the instrument in. on the return flight, a much different tune. she says she was told to get off the plane at the last minute because the aircraft was too small for the cello. the woman ultimately did make it back to chicago one day later on a different american flight. the airline is blaming the issue on a miscommunication. two fast paced programs are getting east bay kids off the streets and onto a course that challenges their physical and mental skills. in richmond, the city recently opened a new bmx bike course called dirt world. city funds and donations helped build the course in hopes of luring kids off the streets. that's where the

founder howard cato was once paralyzed in a shooting. he says what fueled his for me, pretty much helping give back to my community for the good things it has done to me, i can help the next kid do that. >> both dirt world and flood the streets with bikes have partnered with gofundme to raise money for the programs. if you would like more information, we have links at abc7news.com. >> before the warriors defend their back-to-back nba titles they'll thrill fans with bobbleheads honoring some of their biggest names. >> the warriors tweeted out photos of draymond green, steph curry, and kevin durant. they'll give them away at preseason games in september and october. if you're looking at the kevin durant one and saying what is that all about? he's holding a hockey stick because that particular bobblehead will be at the shark tank in san jose. >> i like it. k.d. looks good in that color. >> how would he be on skates? is k.d. a 7 footer? >> yes.

>> it seems like a long way to fall on ice skates. >> center of gravity, push it up four or five more inches. >> okay. well, he looks good as a bobble' head. >> he does. i like it. >> nice. we've got a little concern out there again today. we have to switch gears and talk about some poor air quality that's going to develop in places like tracy and maybe out towards fairfield and up towards lakeport like it did yesterday. the rest of us, we got the sea breeze that's going to keep us pretty mild. it hasn't quite reached walnut creek. temperature running about 62 degrees. it will hit the 90s once again as we become sunnyithhe here a look at the low clouds, fog, and drizzle. it will return tonight, and the weekend heat relief, that's what's going to develop inland and take away the 100s and possibly even the 90s in some of our neighborhoods. here's a look at the cloud cover. a little more formidable this morning. sunshine will be a little slower and it's going to cling to the

coast. the clouds are, so expect not much in the way of brightness there. as far as temperatures, you can see we're 80 at milpitas, 90s around los gatos, morgan hill and gilroy. head up the peninsula, low to mid 80s. redwood city, palo alto, los altos. everybody else in the 70s. along the coast, upper 50s to low 60s. 70 in sausalito. how about 86 in sonoma and petaluma, and everybody else hitting the low 90s up in the north bay. along the east bay shore, comfortable weather from 74 in oakland to 79 in hercules and fremont, and 96 in san ramon to nearly 100 in brentwood. tonight's temperatures, low 50s to mid 60s. my seven-day forecast, the heat still going to peak wednesday and thursday and get back to average by the weekend. hey, alexis. >> good morning. and we do have a little bit of fog out there, as mike has been telling us. i don't have any dense fog advisories in effect through chp. we'll take you live at the

golden bridge right now, you may want to slow down and increase that following distance just a bit and make sure you're driving for conditions. definitely some on the bay bridge once you make it to the san francisco side as well. mass transit looking great. 30 trains in service for b.a.r.t., no delays there. ace one out on time out of the central valley, and ac transit, they had a lot of issues with the bay bridge, huge debacle yesterday. today, normal service, no delays. hopefully it will stay that way. a new order by the pentagon is limiting when u.s. service members can use fitness trackers or kehl phone apps. a memo obtained by the associated press said troops and other defense personnel are barred from using the trackers and other devices a certain sensitive bases and war zone areas because they can reveal their location. technology on personal or government issued devices present a significant risk to military personnel. >> the largest food delivery service took a big bite out of its

grubhub has acquired e-24 from ye yelp. grubhub also reached a long-term partnership agreement with yelp. here's what you'll see when you go to eat 24's website. it says the service is now powers by grubhub, and users will be prompted to switch over to grubhub. smartphone users in europe may soon have just one type of phone charger to deal with. >> alexa will let you know if it's learned the answers to questions that stumped it before. >> in today's tech bites, a move overseas that might put an end to the tangle of mobile phone chargers ever. >> regulators in the eu are considered pushing manufacturers for a universal charger. officials cite the more than 51,000 tons of discarded chargers every year. amazon's alexa is reportedly about to get a whole lot smarter. >> tech crunch reveals a new feature is coming to the device. it will allow alexa to answer

you at a later time if it doesn't know the answer to your question right away. >> a man in michigan is putting more horsepower into ride sharing. an amish resident calls his horse and buggy amish uber, although he's not affiliated with uber since he doesn't have a cell phone. each ride is only $5. good deal. >> a good uber. those are your tech bites. speaking of getting around, no car, no problem. lyft is beefing up its car rental program for drivers. and a woman with cerebral palsy is turned away from a manicure salon, and a good samaritan steps in. >> and the sea

all right lake and mend assigno counties and points to our east is where the poor air quality is right now. good news for us, the sea breeze is kicking in and bringing us clean air. everybody has good to moderate air. that's the way it should remain the rest of the day. if some places get bad air quality, it will be places like tracy, like we had yesterday. >> after months of eruptions, the la kilauea may be slowing down. take look at this photo. here's what one of the volcanic craters looks like before it erupted and then three months later. since early may, the florida crater has dropped almost 1500 feet. hawaii's civil defense agency

has lava has destroyed 577 buildings. >> rental car company avis has signed a deal with lyft to let drivers rent cars to pick up riders. both companies say the partnership will allow lyft to respond to changing attitudes about car ownership. lyft still wants to give drivers who don't have a chance to own their own cars an opportunity to drive for them. thousands of vehicles will be offered through the program. drivers can rent cars directly through the lyft app in the next few months. a study from consumer reports is raising concern about peer to peer payment systems. they checked out five systems. apple pay, facebook payments and messenger, venmo, square's cash, and zel. they found they're generally safe but there are some risks. the systems could impose more protection including defaulting to the highest security level. users would have to opt out to use a lower security setting. consumer reports says most of the systems also need to do more to tell you how they use your

personal information. and it's almost back. american idol will soon be hitting the road in search of singers that are hoping to become the next big star. >> the idol bus tour kicks off august 25th in san diego. that is the closest it will come to the bay area for auditions this time around. southern california's trevor holmes became one of last season's most memorable competitors when he caught the eye of judge katy perry. he has simple advice for anyone thinking about auditioning. >> breathe. breathing is key. don't worry about trying to be anything you're not. just be yourself and they will see that. if they can see the authenticity in you, that's what's most important. ♪ i got a lump in my throat because sunsets. >> anyone interested in auditioning has to be 15 years old. you can audition online. we'll link you to the right place. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. day game over at giants, a 12:45

first pitch. 60, warming up to about 66 under total sunshine. a rare tuesday game. only two games set against the world series champs. dodgers in town but taking on the a's at 7:05. 69, dropping down to 61. african-american heritage night. giving away really cool looking hats. here's a look at hector, still a category 4. winds down to 130 miles per hour. still slated to slide south of the islands, but it's going to kick up wicked surf, thunderstorms, and even winds up to 50 miles per hour. there could be damage, sfaelsh on the big island. okay, we're looking at a really quiet start to the tuesday morning commute. we do have a little lineup in the cash lanes on the left side of the bay bridge toll plaza. if you're paying cash, you may want to to the right side. no litering lights. i did work in seattle for three years before i came here. that's my excuse. westbound 80, highway 4 to the

maze, 17 minutes, and san francisco to sfo, 9 minutes. i have been here two years, that's the first thing i did that. >> that's pretty good. >> i had a good run. >> welcome to san francisco, alexis. >> kfc has a new colonel. jason alexander is the latest celebrity to play the lead role for the fast food chain. the company has had a number of people play the colonel including reba mcentire and rob lowe. alexander had fun with this on twitter saying, well, reba and rob are prettier. george hamilton, crispier, but kfc has a new colonel coming to feed your family. a michigan woman's ug thettti of the world. >> she helped a disabled woman who had been turned away from a nail salon. look at this photo. it shows walmart employee ebony harris skipping her lunch break to paint angela's nails. she suffers from cerebral palsy and had been turned away from a local salon because the manicurist said she couldn't do

her nails because they were too shaky. harris overheard the conversation and wanted to do something to help. >> we're not trying to match the nail salon, not trying to make them lose customers, make them look bad. but maybe spread awareness that no matter the person, who they are, what color they are, disability, whatever, they're people too. >> such a nice gesture, and peters and harris do plan to continue their friendship they have established now. the two are already scheduled for dinner at angela's favorite restaurant. >> new friends and she did the right thing. i like it. >> if you become an instant millionaire, do you go back to work? next at fave:00 a.m., reaction in the south bay after several mega millions lottery winners went back to their jobs. and the new technology being and the new technology being in

good morning north bay. let's get up and get going. >> and good morning, it's fife:00 a.m. on this tuesday, august 7th. thanks for being here. >> aloha. >> aloha, look at you. >> i feel like i should say that with this shirt on. >> it's all about tuesday. >> fit the occasion. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. let's check in with mike nicco. >> i'm sorry, what? >> welcome. >> great. hi. all right, let's take a look alt the winds. they're stronger than they were yesterday. expect me gray around the bay and mist and drizzle as you get near the coast. as far as the accuweather 12-hour planner, waking up same temperatures, mid to upper 50s and then we'll have the 50s stay at the coast while we warm to 70 around the bay