shaking at a neighborhood there. one person on the seventh story of a building in l.a. said he felt like he was sitting in jello. a 3.2 magnitude aftershock followed later. scientists at cal tech got a three-seconds head's up regarding the quake. the usgs early warning system worked. a 4.4 magnitude quake was the largest to hit the l.a. area in three years. >> interesting, they got a little bit of a warning. 4:30, if you're just joining us, a quick update on your weather and traffic. hi, mike. >> hi, everybody. take a look at the cloud cover, you can see it's broken compared to what we've been dealing with the latter stages of august. 16 miles per hour, fairfield, the sea breeze not nearly strong. we're seeing stars and clouds from the exploratorium camera at pier 15. dress for a little cooler temperatures in the low to upper 50s, mid 60s this afternoon, the

rest of us around 70 with brighter conditions at noon, back in the 60s by 7:00. alexis? >> good morning, mike. we don't have any major incidents so far so a quiet start once again today. this is a live look at walnut creek, southbound 680 not going to have any delays if you are heading out in that direction and continuing south towards san jose that looks great as does the 24 if you're connecting and heading a little closer to the bay bridge. a lot of bridge drive times light so far today. southbound 101 across golden gate, six minutes, eight minute across the bay bridge and no metering lights yet. westbound 92, san mateo bridge in the green at 13 minutes. now breaking news from the abc 7 live desk. >> we are following brand neaki news at the live desk from florida, two workers are dead after scaffolding they were on collapsed. it happened at a hotel under construction just outside disney world in lake buena vista. workers were preparing to pour concrete when the platform they

were on gave way. two workers fell six stories to the ground. they died on the scene. a third worker was able to hold on and climbed to safety and that person suffered minor injuries. a federal investigation is now on the way. no more cash bail, california the first state to allow people out of jail without having to pay. it goes into effect next october and meant to make the system more equitable and putting an entire industry out of business. here's abc 7 news reporter kate larson. >> reporter: california is closing doors on money bail. under the new law decisions about whether a suspect is released pretrial will be based on risk assessment rather than if the defendant can come up with the right amount of cash. the assemblyman co-authored the bill. their risk to the public and flight and that's the right and better thing to do. >> five kidnap for robbery and

flee robberies with the use of firearm. >> did you do it? >> nope. >> reporter: we met him at a bail bonds business in san francisco after six months in custody he was released from jail on $700,000 bail. he is now awaiting trial. his co-defendants are still locked up. >> i feel bad like they don't have money even to pay bail. i'm lucky. >> reporter: the very business that let him put up $50,000 cash bond will likely be forced to close for good. >> we are very disappointed. >> reporter: gloria mitchell president of the california bail agency association and spoke to us. she says more than half of california's 3,000 licensed bail agents are women and minorities. >> i am a second generation. my mother was first. and my daughter is a third generation. yeah, this is very concerning because we will be without any livelihoods. >> reporter: the law will take effect in october of 2019. a number of other to reri tir cash bai systems

tentio>> katlarson, abc 7 news. safe injection site for drug users would look like in san francisco. mayor london breed will be at the tenderloin for the launch of a full-scale prototype at glide memorial church. the model of a safe injection site is similar to the one you see in canada. on monday state lawmakers passed a bill for a pilot program which would allow people to use heroin and other drugs under medical supervision. if governor jerry brown approves it san francisco would become the first city to offer a safe injection site. senator john mccain will lie in state at the arizona state capitol, the first of two days of services for mccain in his home state and a private ceremony will be held at the capitol rotunda. father reese, the president of saint ignatius college preparatory in san francisco, will perform the invocation. this afternoon the capitol

rotunda will be open to members of the public who want to pay their respects and friday another viewing will be held at d.c., followed by a final memorial service at the national cathedral saturday. arizona's governor will select mccain after the senator is laid to rest. the replacement has to be of the same political party, so that seat will remain republican. meanwhile, arizona's other senator, jeff flake, plans to retire and the results are in following the state's primary election. congresswoman martha mcsally won the gop race for the u.s. senate seat and began her speech with a moment of silence for mccain. she will face kirsten cinema in november. an upset in florida. tallahassee mayor andrew gill m secured the democratic nomination in the gubernatorial race. the candidate has vermont senator bernie sanders' support. he edged out gwen graham.

he faces republican congressman ron desantis. if elected he would become florida's first african-american governor. lafayette residents upset after a bill that could alter the suburban landscape around bart stations and give bart the authority to override local zoning laws to build housing. parcels of land owned by bart within a half mile radius of stations could be developed for housing and local jurisdictions that would have to conform to the new bart zoning standards and bart has committed to build out its plots by the year 2040. assemblyman grayson out of concord coauthored the bill which would speed up the process. >> i think it's past time for our cities to come to the table with real solutions for housing, rather than continuing to have road blocks and trying to kill affordable housing development. >> the idea you give bart control over what could be big swaths of downtown areas in some

of these towns doesn't make sense to me and they need to rethink what the mission of bart is and i tonight think housing should be part of it. >> the bill is now on the governor's desk after being passed by the state assembly. you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. take a look at some neighborhood temperatures. 60 in antioch, 61 brentwood, 60 on top of mt. diablo. pleasant hill, you're cooler this morning, 52. we have 53 inanville, pleasanton 54 and livermore 56. here's a look at a dry span. the western span of the bay bridge this morning as we look from south beach. driving, good today, not seeing any signs of drizzle. good if you're going to be on the water and the ferry. no winds today. a dry all day morning and afternoon and mass transit pretty comfortable day or night. for the south bay we're looking

at 62 with mostly sunny conditions at 86, 71 at noon, comfortable for your lunch hour and we'll be in the upper 70s throughout the afternoon. back down to 68 by about 8:00. for the east bay shoreline we're seeing the most cloud cover here and 62 at 8:00. mostly sunny and 66 at 10:00, low to mid 70s fort afternoon hours and also light jacket weather this evening. 8:00 it's going to be around 65 degrees. we will try to say good-bye to summer this weekend. i have real heat coming in next week's forecast. we'll have that coming up. how about you? >> so far so good. we don't have any major issues to kick off the tuesday morning commute. a big difference from yesterday as mike has been talking about as well. i don't think you will have to use your wipers this morning, at least not right now. live look at golden gate bridge, where we had a lot of mist and drizzle a lot of folks using their wipers yesterday. today i am not seeing that. really a very light commute so far from the north bay if you are coming in from that direction. also, head's up for this

weekend. don't forget we have track repairs for bart betwen 19th street and west oakland stations. free bus bridge will be provided all day saturday, sunday, monday and will add extensive delays. >> thank you. o sports this year. the generous donation from an unlikely source that's making it possible. scavenger hunt solved. lucky teens in the east bay collect their sweet prize. and you've heard of the gig economy, how you could save energy by living off the grid. completely. you could generate your own energy, at home. maybe you could save energy by weaving your own shoes... out of flax. or... just set the washing machine to cold. do your thing, with energy upgrade california.

you are never more than seven minutes away no this is "abc 7 mornings." >> this is back to school for the new haven unified school district. increasing clouds and then look at all that sunshine at noon, 67, and delightful afternoon, sunny and 72 degrees. we'll be 80 and sunny in san francisco. low to mid 80s in los angeles. breezy 86 in yosemite. we're going to have mid to upper 70s up in tahoe. >> thank you. the raiders may be moving to las vegas, but they are still supporting kids in oakland. the team will donate $250,000 to help save oakland youth sports. the school district eliminated ten sports programs to help cut a $20 million budget deficit.ee

restored girl's tennis, golf and lacrosse and school leaders have to decide which of the other programs the raiders' donation will save. the district says it's grateful but the money is a short-term solution. in the east bay, a group of teenage boys not even old enough to drive have won a car in a citywide treasure hunt. >> a san leandro man built the game and put up his car as the prize. abc 7 reporter katie utehs has more on the winning teen. >> [ inaudible ] thank ou. >> reporter: the voicemail from a teenage boy who has just won a car. >> he was spoked. >> reporter: this chrysler 300 will be parked in brandon suh's driveway but belongs to a group group of six friends. >> we're all going to share it, we're always together hanging out, so there's not really a difference of who has a car. >> reporter: they won the wheels in a treasure hunt built by christian williams. >> i played a treasure hunt when

i was in high school. >> reporter: he designed the four hidden keys game and opened the website to san leandro high school students. >> the world is huge and there's so many things do and i can't just spend all my time writing software. >> reporter: the green key was hidden at washington manor park here on thelay equipment had tohis interactive tool to unlock the clue. >> they were actually very difficult, which is like why i don't think like by ourselves we would have been able to like solve it, especially as quickly as we did. >> reporter: in the span of a weekend, they found and solved four puzzles. >> he does random things all the time and he's always hanging out with the same boys. i'm like okay, sure, just be safe. >> that was probably the coolest thing that's happened to me in a long time. just watching these guys find the clue. it was unbelievable. >> reporter: christian signed over the car to brandon's parents but given the teens so much more. >> definitely bonded more than just playing video games all

weekend. >> reporter: in san leandro, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >> high stakes. >> yeah. >> okay. hey, really good news for avocado lovers. >> you get paid to eat them? researchers at ucla and three other schools are recruiting 1,000 people to figure out if avocados can help you lose weight. half the people in the study will eat an avocado a day for six months and the other half will eat no more than avocados a month. in addition to free avocados, people will get paid $300. if you want more info go to our website, abc7news.com. >> excuse me. >> are you going to sign up right now. >> i want to be in the group that gets to eat an avocado a day. what if you only get two a month? that would not be good. i don't want to be on that side. >> do you eat more than two a month? >> nope. >> are you serious? >> i don't either. >> at least a half one a day. >> do you really? >> yeah. >> i love avocados. >> eat them straight? >> yeah. >> yeah.

>> avocado salad or toast or anything. yeah. >> she's a california girl now. >> wow. >> good for you. >> yeah. >> that's amazing. yeah. so alexis and i will sign up for that and let you know how it goes on. >> and we'll keep our money. >> good morning, everybody. a look at walnut creek, one of those areas that's going to see some sunshine today. we're going to warm a little bit but still not going to quite get back to average as the air mass is just not full of heat right now. now, this weekend, we're going to kind of have a little bit of a roller coaster depending on how strong the sea breeze is. it will be warmer but nothing like that september summer surge that's coming next week. as far as the cloud cover, you can see that yeah, there's hardly any out there. by noon, there's even less out there except along the coast where it's going to open up for sunshine today. once we get into the evening rush hour that's when the clouds start to come back. i think we will see more clouds tomorrow morning and the chance of drizzle returning. mid to upper 70s in the south

bay, los gatos and morgan hill should reach 80. low to mid 70s on the peninsula with low to mid 60s along the peninsula coast. look at the upper 60s. what a great day in san francisco. 68 and sunshine. can't beat that. mid to upper 70s through the north bay valleys. along the east bay shore, sunny. low to mid 70s, our last stop we have a few 80s creeping in but that's comfortable in our valleys of the east bay. my accuweather seven-day forecast see the warmth friday and pulls back saturday and sunday and then the real surge starts for the holiday on monday. more coming up. here's alexis. >> good morning, mike. so far so good. once again we're off to a quiet start this morning, giving it a couple hours and it will be a completely different story about fairly empty here on state route 87 in the south bay if you're traveling up around mineta airport you should not have trouble getting there. so far our drive times are looking great too. westbound 580 tracy into dublin, our first one in the yellow at 33 minutes but not terrible

southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard in the green, northbound 85, 101 to cupertino at 16 minutes. parents here is something for you to think about as you head out the door this morning. who is the most likely to be a distracted driver? a new survey says it's you. 73% of parents admit they do things behind the wheel they shouldn't. 32% of parents often use their phone while their kids are in the car. overall 70% of drivers in the volvo survey say they use their phone while driving and phones are the number one driving distraction beating out radio, gps system and other passengers in the vehicle. >> i believe it. >> it is scary. >> it is. >> you have kids in the car with you, trying to set an example for them. and it's not worth it. >> it's not worth it. >> it really isn't. >> just one little mistake and it could be a life changing situation. >> for the whole family. >> good reminder. thanks. >> thank you. speaking of phones, tesla is selling a portable phone

charger. >> and instagram introducing new security tools. here's tech bites. in today's tech bites new fierce for instagram. >> the social media site rolling out tools aimed at improving security. instagram is adding an about this account section for accounts with large followings and users can request to be verified. a new tesla product has just been unveiled but it doesn't have four wheels. it's a sleek, wireless charger for your phone. >> the tesla charger comes in black or white and costs $65. reviews of the device say it charges slower than the other wireless chargers on the market. and scooter maker vespa is going electric. the first electric scooter goes on sale in europe in about a month and next year in the u.s. bluetooth for a phone, gps and pedestrian detection and the beloved italian scooter was ye ago. >> it is still changing itself with the times. those are your tech bites.

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diamondbacks at at&t park. tonight is jewish heritage night. if you have a special ticket you get a special prize. unfortunately need it because it will be 60 degrees by the end of the game. we're kicking it off first pitch at 7:15, 62. check out this fireball blasting through the sky above australia's west coast. people called emergency services reporting a ufo and they may have been disappointed to find out it was probably a meteor not an alien space kraft and likely burned up in the atmosphere because it was going so fast. we have a recall alert from the 7 on your side team. >> king bio is recalling several products because of what it calls purity issues. the recall includes more than 100 medicines for children, adults and pets. it expands upon the children's medical recall the company issued last week. the fda says the products could cause life-threatening infections and we have the fullest of them on our website,

abc7news.com. if you want to get away, norwegian air is offerg serious discount to europe the airl out of oakland and for $149 you can go to barcelona, london or paris. keep in mind that is a one-way fare. it does not include norwegian's fees for a checked bag, a reserve seat or extras like a blanket or food. you have to book your flight by september 5th, which is next wednesday. if london is your destination check out the outfits meghan and harry wore at their royal wedding. they're going on display in october at windsor castle. fashion fans will be able to get a look at megan's silk wedding dress and 16 foot veil. also the diamond and platinum tiara the queen lent her. the wedding attire will be on display until early january. a little time to get over there. you were just there. >> love to go over there. i'll pick something up for you, i promise.

>> okay. >> freemont unified school district going back to school. sunshine and 67 at noon and 3:00 a delightful 73 degrees. starting next week look at this on the 5th through the 11th, we have the potential to be warmer than average and that means temperatures that are going to hit the mid 80s to possibly mid 90s around the bay and inland. look how busy the tropics are. two systems, but neither of them is going to get close to hawaii tankfully. let's get over to alexis. >> good morning, mike. and overall we are off to another quiet start here. we can always count on the central valley to be heavy already. westbound 205 to 580 down to 21 miles an hour and 16 miles an hour respectively. slower than even 15 minutes ago when we last checked. this does sound minor, but we have a crash reported on the bridge, 80 around the midspan, two vehicles involved and have made it off to the shoulder and not seeing any delays if you are traveling from the vallejo area.

next traffic update at 5:00. "the view" announced the neest co-host, abby huntsman beginning tuesday. huntsman is a former "fox and friends" weekend anchor and the daughter of jon huntsman, the current u.s. ambassador to russia. she is replacing sara haynes. haynes is leaving "the view" to host a third hour of "gma" which begins september 10th and watch "the view" at 10:00 a.m. on abc 7. a heartfelt thanks for fire crews from a young man more familiar with crossing finish than fire lines. >> abc 7 news at fisherman's wharf where indy race car driver charlie kimble made a pit stop at special events for bay area firefighters and other first responders that were being held. they helped put ot fires last year and several responded to fires in southern california including one fire that threatened kimble's family. >> it's prettyeowghat

community is from the first responders through to the relief efforts and people helping to rebuild it shows the strength of communities. >> sonoma raceway sponsored the events. kimble is in the bay area to compete in the indy car grand prix of sonoma next month. next at 5:00 a.m., how a bay area group will celebrate what would have been michael jackson's 60th birthday to. >> a search for these thieves. the merchandise they stole in seconds and cart they got away seconds and cart they got away

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now at 5:00, pricey heist. thieves steal thousands of dollars in apple products in just a matter of seconds. the car police say they got away in. good morning on this wednesday, august 28th. >> you are never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. meteorologist mike nicco has a look ahead at your day. hi, mike. >> hi, jessica, reggie, everybody. you're going to notice the difference when you step outside. it's cooler and a lack of cloud cover that has allowed thick fog to form from petaluma towards healdsburg. visibility in petaluma less than an eighth of a mile. this will be around through the rest of the morning commute. be careful driving through there. as far as your accuweather 12-hour planner, temperatures are in the 40s in some north bay neighborhoods. the rest of us in the 50s. we'll hang out in the mid 60s to 70 at noon. warmer and warmer this afternoon, but comfortable. mid 60s at the coast to upper 70s inland. let's get a check of the morning commute. h