forecasters keeping a close eye on its track, saying it won't likely make landfall, but could bring storm surge, flooding and damaging winds to the state. >> there's a lot of uncertainty. what is for sure, though, is that hawaii is going to be impacted by hurricane lane. the question is, how bad? >> schools closed, emergency shelters now opening, residents facing long lines and empty shelves at super markets as they make last-second preparations for hurricane lane. >> scarred, concerned about the storm. >> reporter: with this hurricane moving so slowly, its impacts have expected to be felt from now through the weekend. marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. give you a live look right now, in honolulu on the island of oahu, the pink palace there. you can see the surfers out there. the storm -- >> they're swimming. >> they're swimming and having a

good time. it's 24 hours away from hitting oahu. let's get to spencer christian. this is a massive storm, the center of the storm is just under 200 miles south/southwest of the big island. notice its path is expected to go northward, category 3 tomorrow, and passing just south of honolulu as category one on saturday, continuing to weaken moving farther back to sea. look at the tremendous amount of rain the storm is already producing and will continue to produce across the islands. now a hurricane warning is now in effect for basically the eastern two-thirds of the chain of islands in hawaii, and a hurricane watch is in effect for the western most islands. rainfall totals through 11:00 a.m. sunday, we project on the big island and on maui, six to eight inches or more, generally. i saw in areas hardest hit could receive up to 30 inches of rain

from the storm. talking about maui in the big island, not across the entire chain of islands, and wave heights will be elevated up to 30 feet or higher. at the peak of the storm, as it gets -- as it moves to its closest proximity to those islands. they're huge waves, larry and kristen? >> for sure. >> spencer, thank you. as lane continues to pound hawaii, residents are doing their best to weather the storm. >> lyanne melendez is live in the newsroom. i just got back from another island, puerto rico, which suffered a huge amount of destruction last year. the one thing that everyone highlighted was the fact that hurricane maria moved so slowly. it lingered, hovered, had it moved quickly it would have done a lot less damage. that's the situation that hawaii is facing, slow means being pounded by the rain. >> just minutes ago they tht pub there are not ren

and so people are encouraged to, you know, stay in their own homes if they can make it safe enough to do so. proach, kauai resident kathleen watanabe is worried about the north shore island still recovering following last april's floods. >> roads have been washed out, they're under repair, as you said, the ground is clearly saturated. >> reporter: hurricane lane is moving slowly, residents will experience prolonged heavy rainfall, and that, according to abc 7's meteorologist mike nico, is more dangerous than heavy winds. >> rain that falls down for hours upon hours upon hours saturates the ground and then it runs off and that's where you get your flash flooding. just in the 12-hour time frame, hilo had 12 inches of rain, an inch of rain an hour. >> reporter: a study which appeared in the journal of

nature found that hurricanes are hovering in one place for longer. in the past 70 years hurricane speeds have declined 10% worldwide. another study by the national hurricane center found that about 27% of all hurricane deaths in the u.s. from 1963 to 2012 were from rainfall flooding, where only 8% of the deaths, during that same time, were caused by strong winds. >> i'm hoping it changes course. but we can't assume that, and then have a major problem and say, well, we are hoping. so we're planning for the worst and hoping for the best. >> reporter: so, scientists say global warming is responsible for these hurricanes slowing down. now, the poles north and south are becoming warmer. this affects the pressure in the atmosphere. and then you see less of a difference in pressure between the poles in the tropics, that causes big currents of wind to slow down. in the newsroom, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news.

if you have a trip planned to hawaii in the next few days, the "7 on your side" team says you can rebook for free. but the new flight usually has to be within a couple of weeks. now, if the airline cancels your flight, then you can get your money back. we have information for all the major carriers, just go to abc7news.com and then go to the "7 on your side" page. the preliminary autopsy is in for mollie tibbetts, showing the iowa college student who used to live in oakland, died from multiple sharp force injuries. the state medical examiner is not revealing what weapon may have been used or the extent of tibbetts' wounds, but the injuries include cuts and stab wounds. tibbetts' body was found in a corn field. cristhian rivera has been charged with first degree murder, he abducted tibbetts while she was out for a run. the suspect in the golden state killer case was back in court on new charges. abc 7 news was in sacramento as 72-year-old joseph deangelo heard the charges against him,

the judge read the 26 new counts, 13 for murder and 13 tied to sexual assaults in sacramento and contra costa e wleme never looked at the judge and never entered a plea. the next hearing will be december the 6th. the issue then will be weather deangelo deserves a free public defender. two men are under arrest gnat death of an alameda restaurant owner, the attack was caught on surveillance video back this april. abc 7 news anchor eric thomas is live in alameda with the latest. eric? >> reporter: and kristen, that fatal attack happened right outside the family's restaurant. at the front door here in alameda. one of the suspects made a court appearance today. the other one is scheduled to appear tomorrow morning. these are the two suspects, 29-year-old dante holloway of oakland. alameda police say this surveillance video shows the two

tring to rob 62-year-old cindy lee of her purse outside the restaurant she owned on webster night. on. the two when followed lee and her husband, in california, laying in wait before a murder is a special circumstance that can carry with it the death penalty. police further say holloway attacked with a metal pipe as lee and her daughter's boyfriend struggled with them. paez is accused of punching her, resulting in a fatal head wound. the family released a statement today saying in part we have heard the suspects have been arrested this news only begins to give us a small sense of closure. our family is still grieving over the sudden and violent loss of our beautiful mother, wife and sister. relatives of defendant's paez and holloway were in court today, but left without making a statement. we talked to cindy lee's husband off camera today, he says

they're gratified with the support they've received from the community and the police work that finally led to arrests in this case. he also said that somewhere out there he thinks cindy is happy that the police have solved this case. live in alameda, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> eric, thank you. we're learning that dangerous narcotics likely killed a woman hours after she was released from alameda county's santa rita jail. jessi jessica st. louis was found dead outside a bart station. her body was found with fentanyl-laced heroin. they want them to stop releasing inmates when public transit does not run. >> a man was stabbed on bird avenue in san jose this morning. sky 7 flew over the scene after it happened. san jose police spent the day looking for clues. no word on any arrests right now. the man was taken to the hospital, not sure of his condition. also in san jose, arson

investigators believe somebody may have set a fire that gutted a cafe. firefighters encountered heavy smoke and flames shooting from the roof of cafe paradise. it appears the fire started overnight outside the restaurant, took crews about 20 minutes to bring it under control. nobody was hurt. in a single move today the city of san francisco wiped out tens of millions of dollars of debt owned by people served time in jail, or oweed by people. they'll no longer levy criminal justice fees, the fees intended the recoup the cost of incarceration. but breed and public defender -- argue they saddle low-income residents with debilitating debt when they're trying to put their lives back together. and going one step further the city is making the move retro active. >> this burden has been bearing down on thousands of families across our city. today we are announcing that we

are eliminating this debt, $32.7 million of debt. >> breed and adachi say more than 20,000 san francisco residents will now be freed from the fees which are often collected from their paychecks and bank accounts for years after their release. a new ride hailing app that's geared specifically toward women, how it promises to be a safer ride, and when it's coming to the bay area. also, it's n is actually m. how long the skies will stay gray. i'll bet you're looking for ideas for perhaps a home remodeling project. welcome to the sunset 2018 idea house, located in los g los give you a sneak preview. and warriors coach steve kerr is preparing for his team's move to san francisco, got a chance to go inside his new multimillion dollar purchase. a much less pleasant picture

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a new ridesharing service is promising safer rides, letting you pick the gender of your driver. >> melanie woodrow is live in san francisco. >> reporter: a concept exactly, safer not only allows you to pick the gender of your driver, but let's say you have a positive ride share experience with that experience, you can

set them up as a trusted driver to fake future rides with. sfer says they're head today san francisco this fall, and female commuters we spoke with say they understand why. a new ride share company is headed to san francisco this fall with a specific target audience in mind. safer's ceo says while anyone can use safer's ride share app, they expect to cater mostly to women, who prefer female drivers. kathy chang told us about her worst ride share experience. >> he was very flirty, got too close to me. and then kind of like unwanted physical contact. >> reporter: chang says she reported the driver. san francisco police recently arrested a man they dubbed the ride share rapist. sfbd says orlando people. lyft says they deactivated his

account. last week an offduty driver was arrested who they said picked up a woman in july who mistakenly got in his car. he took her to his home and sexually assaulted her. safer not only lets riders request if they want a female driver, but female drivers have a -- drivers are background checks, its rides are realtime monitored and there's an sos button on the app in case of emergencies. the reaction depends on who you ask. >> it's unnecessary. >> i do prefer a female driver. >> chang says she'll definitely consider it, especially late at night. >> i'm all for it. >> reporter: safer is already in boston, orlando and pakistan. san francisco is one of several big cities slated for this fall. live in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> melanie, thank you.

warriors head coach steve kerr preparing for the team's move to san francisco. he and his wife just bought a home in the presidio heights, views of the golden gate bridge in this home. they paid $7.3 million. it's a four bedroom, three and a half bathroom home. kristen is shrugging her shoulders, that's about average. that amount, by the way, is more than $1.5 million over the asking price. it's a lovely home, kristen, nonplussed, kerr recently signed a contract extension. >> only because i know the real estate prices it's crazy. >> kristen is whatever. >> a wet, muddy mess morning for some in walnut creek. take a look. a water main broke there. >> my husband was having a nice shower, he left and then i got up and turned on the tap and

said uh-oh. >> that's how the morning started on 94 households. the residents we talked to all assumed it must be something wrong at their house. >> i immediately went out to check our lines to see if we had something broken. that's happened before too. i walked down the street and saw water gushing down the street. >> reporter: it was a water main break. here is the view from sky 7 of the wet, muddy mess left behind from the break, water officials say a four foot section of pipe broke. they started getting several calls this morning as people woke up, wanting showers and coffee and not having any water. the residents weren't too surprised this happened, saying they've had other breaks in the area in recent years. >> just old age, deterioration, it happens. >> reporter: he's right. east bay mud tells us this pipe is 62 years old. it has been here since 1956. residents look at this as a good test of their preparedness.

>> thankfully i have emergency water for, you know, earthquakes and so on. >> reporter: it was also a ctn . they had to bring tice valley boulevard down to one lane. a stop and go through here throughout the day. in walnut creek, amy hollyfield. air quality advisory for the entire bay area has been extended all the way through sunday. sky 7 over san francisco today, see how dark and murky the air was? we're told it's smoke from wildfires in the northwest and all the way from canada in fact, the bay area quality management district says conditions were supposed to be better today, but that's not the case, clearly. visibility was zero on the bay bridge this morning. >> when is it going to get better, spencer? well, despite the ugliness of the air, we don't have spare the air day, the air quality is

moderate. here's a look at the chart right now for tomorrow, saturday and sunday. you can see tomorrow we expect moderate air quality across the entire bay area. on saturday and sunday it will be good in the south central bay and santa clara valley, and despite the relatively good news here, an air quality advisory remains in effect through sunday due to the continuing buildup of smoke. here's a look at live doppler 7, mainly is your honorny skies, hazy, fog on the coastline, a live view once again, that ugly air, the buildup of particulate matter over san francisco, 65 degrees in the city, oakland 68, low 70s at mountain view, san jose, 85 at morgan hill, 64 at half moon bay. here's another view of the hazy air from our east bay hills camera. temperatures low 70s right now. upper 70s at fairfield, concord, 74 at livermore. one more live view at the golden gate where skies above are clear, but the air, of course, is hazy. forecast features low clouds,

fog and drizzle overnight. we've seen this before. we'll see minor warming tomorrow and saturday, forecast animation, starting 7:00 this evening, we'll see a sudden surge of low clouds and fog out over the bay. and locally inland, we're familiar with this, lingering fog, may be reduced visibility for commuters in some spots. by afternoon tomorrow we'll see sunny skies once again with, of course, haze once again. overnight lows, mainly mid to upper 50s, mild overnight, and tomorrow's high temperatures will rainge from low and mid-60 at the coast to upper 60s and low to mid-70s on the bay. inland highs coming up a degree or two tomorrow, to low 80s, 81, 82 in the east bay, north bay, we'll see mid-80s. so a slight warming will be under way through saturday, but look at what happens here on sunday, here's the accuweather seven-day forecast, we have a gradual climb in temperatures tomorrow and saturday. then on sunday, high temperatures inland, and monday,

we'll reach only about 80 degrees, mainly upper 70s, actually, low to mid-70s around the bay, upper 50s to about 60s on the coast. despite this pattern of mild and pleasant weather, temperatures remain generally below average for this time of the year. >> and try not to breathe any air. >> yeah. >> it's good air, only the good air. >> thanks, spencer. the weekend is around the corner, and we have some ideas for you. they start with san

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you are going to need your putting skills instead for a new miniature golf spot in the city. san francisco's first ever outdoor mini golf course is now open. stagecoach greens is located in mission bay. the course pays city's past and present with holes that throw back to the gold rush, and modern times like the sales force tower battling the trans-america tower battling dominance. >> there's something so relaxed about being outdoors, everybody can play the course the way they want to. the course is challenging. and i think even avid golfers find it pretty fun. >> i got lucky there. the whole course is wheelchair accessible. stagecoach greens is open 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. there's a beer garden that opens at 5:00 p.m. daily. admission is $16 for adults, $8 for kids. the dog days of summer are

upon us. check out treasure fest this weekend from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on treasure island, shop, eat, enjoy live music. $5 to get in. kids 12 and under are free. it's a special doggy theme this weekend, including a yapy hour. there's also a dog gone scavenger hunt. >> the return of dollar days af starting this sunday. $1 general parking, $1 general admission, $1 programs, $1 hot dogs, $1 beers and $1 mimosas. go to abc7news.com, and we'll hook you up with hoodline. and a lot more fun. a vintage ferrari may soon become the most expensive car ever. >> 1962 250 gt. one of 36 ever built. how much do you think? who's the most you think as you look at this car, that anybody

would ever pay for this? >> $2 million. >> they're talking about the possibility of it going for $60 million. >> what? >> 6-0. the current record -- 0 million. rd is $38 mgto. i was going to chip iand help you to work. >>r trapped in the thai cave for weeks, how they were able to rely on each other to survive. and joan ryan joining us live on set, her book on the abuses going on in the gymnastics world is so relevant 20 years later. the terrifying moments for

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and on the abc 7 news app, we will, of course, bring you updates throughout the afternoon. here's other stories making headlines at 4:30, hurricane lane is bringing heavy rains to hawaii and heavy winds to the island, especially the big island right now. the national weather service is warning of life-threatening conditions through saturda, including landslides and flash flooding. a packed hallway today in sacramento superior court where golden state killer suspect joseph deangelo was arraigned on 13 new charges. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony will have more for us at 5:00. two men have been arrested in the death of east bay restaurant owner. police say the men attacked cindy lee in alameda in april. new developments in the fallout between president trump andicoh. the president's former attorney said this week that trump ordered him to pay adult film star stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign.

abc news reporter kenneth moten has the latest. >> reporter: they shouted down reporters as they tried to ask president trump about the latest headlines engulfing him. >> i'm not involved, i wasn't charged with anything. >> reporter: hours after michael cohen pled guilty to violating campaign finance laws, by paying stormy daniels to keep her claim of a -- the president blasted cohen for pleading, and pointing fingers. >> there's this whole thing about flipping, they call it. i know all about flipping for 30, 40 years, i've been watching flippers. i've had many friends involved in this stuff, it's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. >> reporter: cohen wasn't the only person close to trump talking to the feds. the "national enquirer's" alleged involvement in hush money paid to the campaign, for karen mcdougal who claimed she

had an affair with trump a decade ago. recording a conversation, mentioning david pecker, the tabloid's long time friend of trump's. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer about info regarding our friend david. >> abc news learned the feds granted pecker immunity in the cohen investigation, in exchange for information. >> the gop chairman of the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley reached out to cohen's lawyer, he wants to hear from cohen to decide whether the committee needs to investigate the claims against the president. kenneth moten, abc 7 news, washington. the white house political climate is inspiring "time" magazine's new cover, it has the headline "in deep" and an image of president trump treading water in the oval office. congressman duncan hunter has reportedly agreed to step down from his committee assignments, this according to the hill. this morning the san diego republican and his wife pleaded not to charges of misusing campaign funds.

>> lock him up. shame on you, shame on you. >> you could hear hunter faced a gauntlet of protesters walking into court. the lawyer says the couple is broke and they're living paycheck to paycheck. >> this investigation, we believe, was politically motivated. it was started by prosecutors that attended a democratic fundraiser. >> the hunters are charged with using a quarter million dollars in campaign money to pay for things like a flight for a family pet, 30 shots of tequila, and their children's tuition. we're now hearing more from the 12 boys who spent 17 days trapped inside a cave in thailand with their soccer coach. they've been meditating and studying as novice monks inside a monastery. they've contemplated the support they got from across the world while rescue teams improvised to

free them. the boys are focusing on their future. one shared his dreams with abc news correspondent james longman in an exclusive interview. >> reporter: and what do you want to do in the future? >> so play football. >> reporter: play guitar and play football? >> yeah. >> their coach is a full-time monk at the monastery, all of them couldn't believe the overwhelming interest in their plight from people everywhere. all right, if you're afraid of heights you may want to look away at this next scene. well, not them, not you. terrifying scene, hundreds of feet above a city in central china, two window washers, they're dangling out there, stuck outside the 57th floor of a skyscraper. my goodness. they were trapped for more than three hours after their basket malfunctioned. emergency personnel and crews rigged a rope and a pulley system and pulled the workers to safety. the rescue is almost scarier

than the malfunction. >> no kidding. one of the nation's large grocery store chains is fazing out plastic bags, planning to stop using them by -- they run foodsco, they join disney, marriott, starbucks and mcdonald's in the effort to reduce waste. coming up at 4:00, what do you do with your gift cards to orchard? michael finney has answers. whale watchers get the surprise of a lifetime, all caught on camera. i'm spencer christian, the

the big liquidation started at orchard supply store. it's going out of business. the savings are small, just 10%, but that is $100 off when the top of the line weber grill, some items like nuts, bolts and piping are 20% to 30% off. orchard supply hardware has terminated its rewards program. keep in mind, all sales are final. the sales percentages would be bigger. >> once they get closer to selling out. what do you do with gift cards? >> michael, i suspect you're going to say use it up quickly. >> yeah, you've got to get on it, holding the bag here. now is the time. we reported that all stores will be closing, just a few moments

ago these guys told you that, as parent company lowe's tries to compete with home duride, a pur turned through september 5. youon't time. items purchased august 23rd onward through the store closin honored through the store closing sales. the gift card can only be used at orchard supply hardware. they will not be honored at lowe's stores. so get on it and tell your friends. sears is adding two more bay area stores to its list of closures. the company just announced it will close another 46 stores, all across the country, including the last remaining location in its hometown of chicago. now, here in the bay area, the sears in santa cruz will shut down. the k mart in antioch will close its doors. the stores are expected to close

by november. liquidation sales will start as soon as next thursday, august 30th. employees who work at these stores will get a severance package, we're told, and then they can apply at other locations in the area. no job guarantees. walmart is branching out into ebooks. the retailer says it's partnering with toronto bay's kobo, the e-reader many independent bookstores offer, walmart will offer more than 6 million titles by kobo. customers can also take advantage of an audio book subscription which includes one audio book a month for $9.99, similar to an amazon deal. this is walmart's latest move in its effort to compete with amazon's kindle. if you have any questions about consumer affairs, let me know about it, my "7 on your side" hotline is open monday through friday 10:00 to 415-954-8151, and reach me on

facebook and through abc7news.com. will the sales get better? yes, they will constantly get better the next couple weeks. pretty soon you're down to 80% off, and it's a foot of >> gotcha. thanks, michael. >> thank you. abc 7 mornings, jessica castro shows us an up close encounter with a hump back whale. this is good. >> oh, oh. >> that was awesome. or terrifying, depending on who you ask. a hump back in alaska just soaking some whale watchers, kristen krause says he was enjoying a wail watching tour when he and his fellow passengers experienced a close encounter with a hump back whale. it leapt out of the water and drenched everyone on board. >> well, that was exciting. >> what an experience.

do you think the whales go, let's distract them over there, and i'm going to get them over here. >> sure, they have fun as well. >> dolphins will interact with the boats that go by and put on a show. >> they play with you. >> yeah, they jump around, they know you're into it and they get into it too. >> not sure the weather is so great right now for whale watching. >> you can't even see anything outside, spencer. >> that's true. the air is ugly. live doppler 7, above the buildup of smoke and pollutants, we have sunny skies over the bay and inland. of course, overnight we'll see low clouds and fog push out over the bay, more coastal drizzle on the bay shoreline, overnight lows mainly upper 50s and tomorrow's highs sunny, but hazy -- low 60s at the coast to mainly upper 60s. low 80s inland in the warmest locations. speaking of warm, it is not very warm in the bay area. mild, but temperatures are generally below the average for

this time of year. look at the seven-day forecast for high temperatures in san jose, the average high this time of year in san jose is 83 degrees, not one of the next seven days we'll top out at not even 80 in san jose. although the weather is pleasant, we are well below average in terms of high temperatures for this time of year. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast, partly to mostly sunny skies through the seven-day period, lingering low clouds at the coast just about every day. a little bit warmer inland tomorrow and saturday, but then temperatures will drop back down below average again. by the way, i will continue tracking hurricane lane and its approach to hawaii. sandhya will have the latest at 5:00. you can track it also with the abc 7 news app. >> good to know. >> thank you, spencer.ha the gym thnastics community shunned an author, but joan ryan is now more than vindicated. they happened to be passing by at the right time, the

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new fallout that sexual abuse investigation of larry in thisser, the former doctor sentenced for abusing 250 young girls and women in his role as a doctor for usa gymnastics, and

also at michigan state university. kathy klagis is a long time, she was charged with lying to police during an investigation, and the university's handlingo ryan who wrote a book about abuses in women's gymnastics. the making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters. i was stunned when i was told about this a couple weeks ago. you wrote this in 1995, 1995, two decades later, and the abuses continue. in the larry nassar case, they got so much worse. what was your reaction when you heard about all this, given what you had written? >> fury. i mean, absolute fury that this was 23 years ago. so there is no accepting that the gymnastics community didn't

know about this culture of abuse. my book doesn't address the sexual abuse. it talks about it a little bit, but back then nassar was just coming, and that wasn't really happening at that moment. but there was, you know, girls would tell me about their coaches. but i couldn't nail it down so i couldn't put it in the book. but when you have a culture in which these coaches and the federation have so much power over these girls, and they're so young, you're dealing with children, this is exactly the environment in which sexual abusers can get away with everything. >> outside of the sexual issues, you're talking about borderline starvation, fat shaming the girls, forcing them to compete through injuries where they clearly should not have been competing. you brought up an interesting point in that elite gymnasts, female gymnasts, you're in your prime at age 15 or 16, these are little girls easily manipulated.

>> yeah, they are. and now you see that they're in their prime a little bit later. especially our last two olympic teams, they're 17, 18, 19, even 20, 21 years old, which is, you know, a terrific thing that's happening. you know, you don't have to be a child. unfortunately you're still basically having to have a child's body. so that hasn't changed too much. but yeah, that is the thing that you -- in order to be an elite gymnast, for your viewers, we're only talking about elite gymnastics. because youth gymnastics is fabulous, wonderful sport, we love it. when you get to the elite level, all the rules change, all the expectations change, and these girls have just a window in which they can be the best in the world. so, you know, they're staving off bpuberty, they have to havea body like an adolescent boy's body and their careers are over when they turn into women. >> one of the most controversial

figures in gymnastics is bella caroley, a lot of gold medal winners, so we see these girls who are stars and american heres in some cases, but there are hundreds or thousands who have been physically and mentally broken, and some for life. >> there's a payoff for all those years and years of literally suffering. in the book i call it legal child abuse. that is what it is. and these girls, there's no safety net for them. there's no government oversight because it's a sport. it's not a job. well, tell that to these girls. i mean, it is a job. >> and isolated from their parents in many cases, so 23 years later, you know, here we are. if we come back and do this interview in another 20 years, will things be better, i hope? >> they will absolutely be better. and i say this for one reason. when i was watching, as many of us did on cnn at the sentencing hearing for larry nassar in that

lancing, michigan courtroom, and i saw -- i think it was originally a list of 75, 80 gymnasts and former gymnasts coming forward to testify at the sentencing. as it was on live television, other gymnasts saw it, packed their bags, and went to michigan, and at the end of the sentencing hearing there were 156 gymnasts and former gymnasts who testified. having written that book and seeing what it took for these girls to be the best in the world and be elite gymnasts, it's that tenacity, it's the hyperfocus, it's the grit that they needed to get through that. and i could almost visualize now as you said it's almost 300 of them, like their gaze turning from gymnastics onto the federation and these coaches. >> right. >> and they are the ones that give me hope. they're not going to let it go

this time. >> joan will be tonight in the marina, books in ink on chestnut, and the book has been rereleased. see her at 7:00. thank you for coming in. >> thank you, larry. >> joan ryan. years ahead of her time. an amazing story of heroics from the east bay, two teenagers happened to be passing by this huge fire at a burning home as abc 7 news reporter carlos saucedo explains, a family of five and their pets made it out alive thanks to two young women. why has this happened? >> cell phone video show it is dramatic moments as flames were engulfing this livermore home early saturday morning. confusion took over as everyone was being accounted for. this video was taken by 19-year-old sarah colson. >> we saw the flames so i kept going and then we were so shocked and we were like what do we do? >> sarah was driving home from work with her friend when they

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a brand new house opens to the public this weekend in los gatos, no ordinary house, sunset magazine's 2018 idea house. some are already calling it the lighthouse. it takes a classic design and adds modern touches for today. abc 7 news reporter david louie gives us a tour. >> reporter: who doesn't like to tour a house and discover interesting ideas, designs and features. sunset's 2018 idea house looks like a traditional craftsman. on the main level it's difficult to distinguish the outdoors from the inside because the golding glass doors in the living room and in the green room, outdoor eating area and yard seem to be a natural extension of the house. even the staircase lets light through. >> a craftsman would typically have a pickett rail and here we

have a house with a glass rail. it allows us to see through the house. >> the house is 2,900 square feet, three bedrooms with a study. >> it lives more like a 4,000 square foot, no dead end rooms, you can see straight through, even the basement has flow in >> the basement has a media room with a i filled with light blls a ataircase leap to the yard. there's plenty of technology too, including whole house lighting controls by noon home. >> if you're cooking, the lights will be a bit brighter, if you're entertaining, set it to entertaining mode. and they'll be dimmer, more intimate. >> reporter: the bedrooms are not oversized. >> i think that smaller bedrooms, and larger communal living spaces are sort of what people are after right now. >> reporter: ticketed tours over six weekends will provide people with plenty of ideas. it took 13 months to build this house from the ground up. a question i know is burning in your mind, how much isgotooswh p

for sale? the answer $3.6 million. >> wow, thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm larry beil. abc 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. we haven't really heard the charges like that before. >> the new charges against the accused golden state killer. new surveillance from bart, the man officials want to find for a stabbing today. questions about the everify system following the murder of mollie tibbetts. home sweet home, who's living at this old motel 6. >> announcer: live breaking news. we begin with breaking news in the east bay, a fire is burning on mt. diablo right now. sky 7 is there live. you can see it's not big, it's only a couple of acres at this point, and there's a reasonable amount of smoke coming off this fire. but we want to keep a close eye on it. >> you can see the red retardant that had been dropped.

let's show you a map. the fire is in the mt. diablo state park near the juniper campground. our video is 20 minutes ago, what you're seeing there, see the dropping of both water and retardant. the flames, as dan mentioned, two to three acres growing to maybe five acres tops in heavy brush. >> it started about an hour ago, just jumped summit row, though it does appear crews are getting a pretty good handle on it, we hope. sky 7 live, firefighters have brought in bulldozers as well. kristen just mentioned the orange fire retardant, see that in the middle of your screen, a band of that, on the left, between the two columns of smoke, you can see they've dropped fire retardant from a fixed wing aircraft, to prevent the fire from continuing to progress. >> as you mepgsentioned, dan, i a small fire, but however there are radio towers there on mt. diablo, that's something to watch. hopefully they're getting a good handle on it.