hours. >> carlos saucedo is live with a breaking update for us. carlos? >> reporter: dan and kristen, we are at a secure spot just feet away from this tanker truck. i'll take a few steps here and you can see some cars just surrounding that area. we did see some chp officials also surrounding the truck moments ago. hazmat crews, again, were trying to neutralize the substance, the leak that was on the ground there. but as you can see, traffic flowing both directions now on interstate 880. traffic, as you can imagine, a major, major backup as a lot of people were trying to get home during the commute. both directions of i-880 were closed for several hours during this massive cleanup. the sulfuric and nitric acid spill was reported just after 12:30 this afternoon. a shelter in place was issued for the surrounding area here in hayward. people were told to stay indoors

and close their doors. >> it's dangerous, inhalation hazard and absorption hazard. if it gets on your skin, it can burn you. >> reporter: now, that shelter in place was lifted at 4:00. and there weren't any reported injuries. but it did take some crews several hours to neutralize the chemical agents on the ground. and it's believed that up to 300 gallons may have spilled. again, that's why it took officials several hours to clean up to make sure that there weren't any other chemicals on the ground. so a huge concern, a huge precautionary measure for officials here to make sure that people in this area were okay. again, that shelter in place was lifted before 4:00. a few minutes ago the southbound lanes of interstate 880 have since reopened. as you can imagine, as you can expect, a lot of residual delays as a result. reporting live in hayward,

carlos saucedo, abc 7 news. >> before we move on, give you a live look from sky 7 on 880. again, this toxic leak happened near winton avenue. looking from sky 7, you can see finally after a long delay traffic is moving again smartly in both directions, much to the relief of evening commuters. >> we sent out a breaking news push alert at 1:22 p.m. warning you about the hazmat situation that closed 880 in both directions. if you want immediate notifications on your device, download the abc 7 news app and enable push alerts. it is hard to breathe for many folks in the bay area, maybe you, as we have a spare the air day. a bay area air quality warns the air made thick by smoke my irritate your throat or worsen many illnesses. >> avoid outdoor activities, especially if you suffer from a respiratory condition or are a child or an elderly condition.

>> also if you have a heart condition. for more how it's affecting more people around the bay area, here's abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley. it's just hanging in the air. >> reporter: it has been all day, dan. it is starting to clear up a bit, though, in the last couple hours. there is some limited visibility now. and i can actually see my shadow in the east bay hills. earlier today it was a total smokeout. >> there's a beautiful view of the bay, but today we can't see anything. >> we're really worried about the air quality, the effects on our health and our kids. it's really gray out and we're trying to stay inside. >> reporter: it was a quiet day up in the berkeley hills if you tried, really tried, you could manage to see the outline of san francisco beyond the campanili. >> we're seeing the fires in british colombia, oregon and

california are mixing up today and making this lovely soup we're breathing today. >> reporter: he's doing research on atmospheric chemistry. for scientists, he says, the smoke in the air provides a chance to learn more. >> we have a big network that berkeley manages that makes measurements in san francisco and from san leandr north to vallejo. >> we're making measurements in the sacramento delta right now. we're looking forward to seeing the measurements. >> reporter: dennis baldachi is a uc berkeley professor. he says smoke like this could impact california agriculture. they're also looking at how the smoke could have unintended positive effects. >> it causes light to come in many angles. it can pen drat deeply into the forest that way. >> reporter: bottom line, the smoke could be altering our

ecosystem, especially if these layers of smoke linger like they have for weeks or even months, and become part of a normal summer pattern, given all the increasing fires we've seen, dan. back to you. >> leslie, thanks so much. so what can we expect from air quality tonight? of course this weekend. let's check in with meteorologist sandhya patel. yeah, kristen, take a look at a live picture as leslie mentioned, we're starting to see signs from improvement from our mt. tam cam. still smoky, don't get me wrong. there's a spare the air alert up for today. poor air quality in many areas today. take a look at the weekend, air quality advisory through sunday but you do start to see an improvement with good air quality by sunday, parts of the bay area. switching gears to hurricane lane, here's our live doppler 7 tracking copious amounts of rain. so far measuring up to three feet on the big island. and they're going to continue to see rain. great news, it is weakening

quickly now, a category 1, it is going to continue to bring rain as it continues the weaken and make the sharp westward turn. biggest threat with this is still flooding, mudslides, isolated storm totals could be 40 inches. tornadoes, a concern, along with the waves and storm surge. dan? >> sandhya, thanks very much. while wind and flooding are problems for people in the past of a hurricane, they're not the only danger. lyanne melendez is in the newsroom to explain. >> dan, this is two stories in one. people on maui have been bracing for the hurricane, but they never expected brush fires causing evacuations. now they really need that rain. but that hurricane continues to move, remember, very slowly and has caused damage to the big island. five tourists, for example, from california, had to be rescued from a flooded vacation home in helo. >> reporter: on the big island, people were helping others evacuate as hurricane lane unleashed torrential rain

producing major flooding. as predicted, landslides have already threatened to do damage. power outages affected about 4,000 customers on the big island. according to the red class, more than 1,500 people spent the night in 36 shelters on the islands. >> we haven't really faced a hurricane of this magnitude in -- as far as the history as i can remember. >> reporter: then in the morning hours a new threat emerged in maui, brush fires starting, moving up the west side of the island. the winds from the hurricane, and dry conditions, were fueling these fires. abc 7 meteorologist mike nicco says as the hurricane comes closer to maui, those winds will pick up. >> a hurricane's coming, the last thing you wan know it's going to be flooding. you've already seen the flooding on the big island. that's what's coming. but to help put out that fire you could use some rain. so far, they haven't really seen much. >> reporter: one woman was treated for burns and some

residents were evacuated, including former bay area news photographer don mcquag. >> it's going horizontally. they evacuated everybody out. our street is being evacuated. >> reporter: according to the mayor of maui, the strong winds prevented crews from helicopters dropping water on the fires. again, totally unexpected. now the cause of those fires is unknown. the amount of property damage sustained is uncertain at this time. in the newsroom, leanyanne melendez, abc 7 news. in the east bay, a man is now in jail after stabbing a stabbing i should outside the warm springs bart station. he was arrested last night less than 24 hours after the attack. fecker is a transient, the victim police think is also a transient is expected to be okay. after what happened with

russia in the presidential election representatives from the biggest tech companies are meeting to share cybersecurity information before the midterm elections. buzz feed is breaking that story tonight. abc 7 news reporter melanie woodrow is live outside twitter's headquarters in san francisco. melanie? >> reporter: dan, when we reached out to twitter, a spokesperson responded, "we have nothing to share at this stage." even without official confirmation, a security expert tells abc 7 news the more meetings like this one, the better. twitter's headquarters in san francisco reportedly hosting tech giants like facebook, google, microsoft tor according to buzz feed it was to share tactics. >> secret, public, doesn't matter. it matters we're talking, coordinating and that we're all trying to stop this stuff from happening. >> reporter: mike mur re, is

a -- >> no one smart person is going to solve this. we need a lot of smart people to get together to solve these problems. >> reporter: buzz feed reports -- outlined a three-part agenda, each company would present the work they've been doing to counter information operations. discuss problems each company is facing. and talk about whether this kind of meeting should become a regular occurrence. marie says sharing is key. >> we want to be secretive, but it's the ability to share that information quickly and effectively that makes it easier. >> reporter: he says tech companies have become more proactive since the alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. >> i don't think anyone saw what happened in 2016 coming in the way that it happened. if we had we would have stopped it. >> reporter: murray says it's not just industry leaders, but the government needs to also coordinate with tech giants so they can move as quickly as the attackers do. buzz feed reports that a similar

industry conversation was held at facebook in may. we reached out to facebook for comment, but did not hear back. live in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> melanie, thank you. now to the latest on the murder of east bay native mollie tibbetts. abc news reports the girlfriend of the suspect cristhian rivera attended the same high school as tibbetts. they are also friends on facebook. investigators say there's no other evidence that they actually knew each other. tibbetts funeral is sunday in iowa. today people here in the bay area are harnessing their sadness, turning it into acts of kindness. abc 7 news anchor eric thomas has the story. >> reporter: mary spinetti is a runner, something she has in common with mollie tibbetts. >> mollie could have been me, could have been anybody. so i just felt a connection with mollie. >> reporter: she started following the case when mollie was missing. >> every day that would be the first thing, i'd wake up and see

if mollie was found. and the day that -- tuesday when her body was found, i woke up that morning and just cried. >> reporter: instead of letting her grief turn to pa ral list, mary joined an online group started by two of tibbetts' friends in iowa. members printed out little strips of paper to distribute random acts of kindness. >> i'm getting someone ice cream. >> reporter: that meant putting treats like candy on windshields. >> a few people reached out to me, hey, i got this, that made my day, thank you for being so kind. >> reporter: erick silva found one on his car at the gym. >> i think it's awesome. especially in her name, it's a sad story, but turning into something where everybody is helping each other out. >> reporter: mary's husband says he didn't quite get her interest at first. but now he couldn't be more proud. >> she went out and bought all this stuff and this is something she wanted to do, something she

was passionate about. i supported it. >> i really hope that people will take the time to look up mollie and to do something kind. >> reporter: the ultimate goal is to get you to pay it forward. erick silva says he did today when he was in line at starbucks and bought coffee for the total stranger behind him in line. the fight over california's wildfires moves to washington. coming up, lawmakers take action against a telecom giant, accusing it of putting firefighters in danger. also here, you could be affected by a massive data breach affecting millions of cell phone users. save yourself by freezing a little piece of yourself. details o

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later in life. now patients in the bay area are being offered a chance to do something similar with their stem cells. the goal is to create an insurance policy against future health problems. chi chang in his mid-40s, healthy, with a career in tech finance. he looks at the future of his body, the way a mechanic might look at an older car. >> when you fix an old car, you're stuck with whatever parts you can salvage. the whole point, i think, from my perspective is that it's a way to extract things when things are still working properly. >> to ensure against a theoretical health crisis in the future, chi is about to have his stem cells frozen. the service is offered through forever labs, a company based in michigan, like a fertility provider, but instead of freezing eggs or embryos, they freeze stem cells.

>> getting your youngest stem cells is desirable. >> using local anesthetic, dr. abramson extracts a sample of chi chang's bone marrow in a short procedure. the samples are shipped to forever labs where the stem cells are isolated and stored. hopefully there to help with effective treatments for injuries and aging. >> all the potential uses for stem cells are on the table. probably, i think, some of them will work out. >> the company offers several plans from $2,500 to $7,000. chang views it as a cost-effective insurance policy for his body. >> or i just might stay healthy for a very, very long time and would never need, which would be a great outcome. >> but he's got insurance. dr. abramson says patients can experience minor discomfort during the procedure, but most can actually return to work the very next day. >> interesting. all right, if you are a customer of t-mobile, we have a warning tonight.

the company says it discovered a data breach that could affect nearly 2 million customers. customers' names, e-mails, phone numbers and account numbers may have been exposed. be warned. t-mobile is sending text messages to affected customers. they have reported the hack to authorities who shut it down. northern california congressional members are demanding the federal trade commission investigator verizon's throttling of firefighter data speeds. the slow data connections while firefighters battled the mendocino complex fires. the company later apologized and lifted the caps. firefighters say their internet was unusable and lives were therefore jeopardized. >> that information includes things like weather forecasts. we use it to access the internet for things like plume modeling for a hazardous material event to understand which direction the wind is going to blow. >> congressional members want to know if verizon violated any ftc

rules. lawmakers had an information hearing about what happened. here's the latest on the northern california wildfires. right now the 422,000 acre mendocino complex fire is at 74% contained, though firefighters have the smaller of the two fires fully contained. the carr fire near redding is now 93% contained. and in yosemite, highway 41 is back open after being closed nearly a month. highway 140 remains closed. the fire is now 100% contained. now your accuweather forecast with sandhya patel. and we have obviously been seeing reduced visibility because of some of the smoke from those fires. and also we have some low clouds right near the coast. take a look at live doppler 7. that is obviously playing a role as well, and it's pretty much socked in for parts of the coast. here is a view of the hazy skies

from our santa cruz camera. as you will notice the smoke has reached that area as well. smoky skies tonight and into the weekend, a little warmer tomorrow afternoon and it will remain below average as we head into next week. so in case you're wondering, it's going to be moderate air quality tomorrow and we will start to see some good air quality on sunday here in the bay area. as the wind starts to switch direction. from our emeryville camera, we are noticing still hazy, although it has improved today, 63 in san francisco, 66 in oakland, mountain view, san jose, 70s, morgan hill, 83 degrees. it's a nice-looking day with most areas in the mid-60s to upper 70s. kgo roof camera, the flag is blowing in the wind, mixing out the smoke in the atmosphere. 67 in santa rosa right now. mid to upper 70s from novato to concord. right now 77 in livermore. live look right now, and then we take a look at what's going to happen. 7:00 p.m. tonight you'll still have those clouds around. see it pushing, basically,

through the bay and as we head towards midnight. tomorrow morning, we'll see low clouds, fog. i think this time around is going to mix out. so tomorrow afternoon you will see less in the way of the marine layer. first thing tomorrow, though, if you have early plans, do count on fog and low clouds with temperatures in the 50s and the 60s tomorrow afternoon. here's how it looks in the south bay, still hazy, not as bad as today. 80 in san jose, cupertino area. warmer than today on the peninsula, mid-70s from redwood city to palo alto mountain view. 67 degrees in the north. you're going to see temperatures coming up into the upper 70s from napa to calistoga. 80 in santa rosa. fremont, 76 degrees. inland east bay, hazy sunshine, a warmer day. 84 in concord, 83 in livermore. 82 in pleasanton. not exactly where you should be this time of year, but it is pleasant weather for any outdoor

activities if we could get rid of the smoke. the smoke will dissipate more as we head towards tomorrow. but much better as we head towards next week. here's a look at the accuweather seven-day forecast. hazy sunshine tomorrow, a little warmer, mid-60s to the mid-80s. little change expected on sunday. low 60s to the mid-80s. you can expect cooler, breezier conditions and better air quality heading into early next week as that cooler air moves in. we will start to notice the stronger winds coming off the ocean, blowing some of that smoke away so you can download the accuweather app and check out temperatures anytime you want, dan and kristen. >> thanks, sandhya. coming up, is this too risque for france? the demand made to serena before the next french open. and new at 6:00, a museum dedicated to amusement parks from the past is closing after ten years. take you on one final tour before it disappears for

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two 49ers legended shared their wisdom with current and former players today. abc 7 news was at stanford university where 100 campbell honor yees were on hand. he thought it was weird a camera followed bill walsh every year. it was all with a purpose. >> i was creating a tool kit to hand his assistant coaches as i go to be head coach in the league, here's my tool kit, everything that i know. the packers came back and beat us in the championship game. i saw brett favre, i go, what was the speech that he used last night? he goes, blah, blah, he goes, that's bill's big game speech. he pulled it out, right out of the tool kit. >> the 49ers kick off the season on september 9th. the raiders start on the 10th. french tennis officials are

saying sorry, serena, new dress code next year, they told tennis magazine her outfit at the french open will not be allowed. one must respect the game. serena called her cat suit a reference to the movie "black panther". nasa is letting you take selfies in space, not literally, posing in front of a cosmic location of your choice. if you'd rather tour space, the exo exkurgss app is available. you can walk along artist renderings of five planets surroundedly blackness and stars. >> you may not have had this on your calendar, but today is national waffle day. august 24th marks the anniversary of the first u.s.

patent for a waffle iron issued back in 1869. san jose is the first place of eggo waffles. major brand of frozen waffles as you know. it was developed in the 1950s. >> that makes me want to have breakfast for dinner. >> good anytime. an east bay native hopes to turn kids into amateur sleuths over the weekend. >> coming up, details on the special treasure

coming up tonight on abc 7 news at 6:00, a southern california woman poses as a sheriff's deputy to get her boyfriend out of jail. it worked. but not for long. >> 80,000 people are expected at burning man starting this weekend. a lot of drivers heading there end up getting pulled over by police. why festival organizers have threatening a federal lawsuit. a push to register more

voters, especially one group in the east bay, all coming up tonight in a half hour at 6:00. in the east bay, a san leandro man is giving back. >> a scavenger hunt with a four-wheel surprise for the winner. >> christian williams is the original owner of this 2006 chrysler, it's been a great car and he wants to give it away. >> christian created a treasure hunt game modeled after one he played in high school 20 years ago. four keys are hidden around san leandro. each key holds a clue. crack the clues, the car is yours. >> i thought by doing this it would be something that could inspire the next generation to think creatively and to be generous. >> christian says only san leandro high school students can play, more than 150 kids have signed up. >> good luck. >> good luck.

i'm kristen sze. >> i'm dan ashley. see you again in half an hour. tonight, several developing we're watching as we come on. the president and first lady leave town, as yet another member of the president's innermost circle is now sharing secrets. the new immunity deal revealed today. this time, involving the man who oversees president trump's finances. at his side for decades. now we learn he has cut a deal with federal prosecutors. what allen weisselberg has told them. and there is also news coming from the family of senator john mccain. what they have now revealed. the deeply personal decision. the powerful hurricane striking now. and this evening, the images coming in from hawaii. more than 40 inches of rain expected. life threatening floods, and now fear of landslides. our team is right there tonight. the congressman and wife charged with spending campaign