also come to mind, but that is not going to happen out of this storm. gordon right now, 65-mile-per-hour winds. let's see where it's going. you can see it heads up just to the east, more like gulf port is going to take a direct hit, but new orleans will be on the weaker side, which means they'll get less storm surge and less rain tonight into tomorrow morning and then it will head to arkansas where the marshy land in the southeast could flood and even the mountains could flood in the northwest corner because of heavy rain from that. for us back here at home, let's look at what's going on. you can see it's cloudy. marine clouds are back and they'll hang around. look for more sunshine at noon, a little haze, and 4:00, we're in the 60s at the coast. mid 70s around the bay. upper 80s inland. close to average. here's alexis. >> good morning, mike. overall, the commute average too. we're looking live at our walnut creek traffic camera. southbound 680 starting to fill in, and of course, expecting a much busier day than yesterday. a lot of you were off for the

holiday, but everyone should be pack at work and school today. should be busy once we get a few hours in. westbound 580, tracy to dublin in the yellow at 37 minutes. westbound 4, antioch to concord in the green at 13. although i have heard about a disabled vehicle, and san rafael to san francisco, wide open at 15 minutes. >> happening this morning, in just about two hours, supreme court confirmation hearings set to begin for judge brett kavanaugh. >> the showdown over his seat has already started. abc news reporter emily rau is in washington with the latest on the outrage from democrats. >> good morning. the hearings start at 9:30 this morning on capitol hill. and a lot of senators are eager to start questioning this federal judge who could have a major impact on the nation's highest court for decades to come. as federal judge brett kavanaugh rounds out his intense preparation for this week's

hearings, senate democrats are already making their case that the white house is withholding key information about kavanaugh's record. already, some 400,000 documents have been released but it's the 100,000 from kavanaugh's time as a close aide to president george w. bush that democrats want. chuck schumer tweeting late monday, the senate was just given an additional 42,000 pages of kavanaugh documents the night before his hearing. this underscores just how absurd the process is. in response, republicans on the judiciary committee saying the team will be able to go through the latest batch in short order. >> he was very explicit in terms of what he wanted in a supreme court nominee. >> democrats are expected to grill the 53-year-old about his views on roe v. wade and whether kavanaugh would work to overturn it. democrats have also gone after kavanaugh for once writing that presidents should not be distracted by investigations while in office. some accusing president trump of picking kavanaugh to protect

himself. emily rau, abc news washington. >> a new poll released this morning finds the public is evenly divided on judge kavanaugh's nomination. more than 1,000 people who participated in the poll last week and 38% of people surveyed said the senate should confirm kavanaugh. 39% said the senate should not confirm him. 23% had no opinion. the controversial issue here is kavanaugh's ambiguous stance on abortion. 59% of people surveyed said the judge should publicly state his position. 31% said he should not. 10% had no opinion. >> san jose police hope surveillance video will lead them to the driver who hit two kids on their bikes. here's that video. you can see a white honda civic come up to the intersection. the driver hits the kids and then backs up and a moment later takes off. this happened last monday at

cotyl road in south san jose. one neighbor's gardener witnessed all of it. >> stop, stop. he was saying, trying to make him stop, but the boys did not stop. they just back up and make a quick left turn. >> police are still looking for the white four-door honda. witnesses say there were three people, possibly teenagers, inside. the two children were hurt. they are expected to recover. a bay area man who drowned while swimming in stanislas county was not wearing a life jacket. that's according to the sheriff's department. deputies say the 26-year-old man was trying to swim across the woodward reservoir with his brothers before noon. he started to struggle and went underwater. a dive team found his body around 5:00 last night. the sunnyvale man was on a holiday weekend camping trip with family. >> this morning, we're learning more about what led up to an ambulance patient getting hit and killed on an east bay freeway. >> medics were transferring the

woman from valley care medical center in pleasanton to a psychiatric fy in san leandro yesterday morning. we're told she got upset, jumped out of the ambulance. this happened on the connector ramp between 680 and 580. >> the patient got out of all of the restraints, overcome, and pushed out of the way the attendant in the back of the ambulance. and went and opened the locked doors of the ambulance and exited the ambulance. >> according to the chp, two cars swerved out of the way. a third car struck her and she died at the scene. san francisco leaders and health advocates are pushing for governor brown to sign a bill to allow san francisco to become the first city in the u.s. to open safe injection sites. last week, a state legislature passed the bill to create a three-year pilot program. also last week, a first look at what a safe injection site would

look like here. the site would provide supplies, education, and also resources, but not drugs. the governor has until the end of the month to sign the bill. also today, a north bay school district with a controversial name that some say references the confederacy will consider a name change. >> this is the dixie school district. it's located in san rafael. critics of the name say dixie is a reference to the confederacy and slavery. the board has previously declined to change the name. several community members pushing for the change plan to address the school board tonight. this morning there is new controversy swirling around former 49er colin kaepernick. >> he's back in the headlines and this time for being one of the faces for nike's latest ad campaign. reporter amy hollyfield is at the nike store in san francisco. hi, amy. >> hi, jessica. yeah, we have seen the reaction on social media. what will be interesting to see is what kind of reaction happens here in the stores to nike's bottom line.

they're down in stock trading pre-market trading, so we'll watch to see what happens when the markets open. here is the ad. it says believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything. we have seen plenty of reaction on social media. one man posted video of him burning his nike shoes. serena williams posted that she is proud of the ad. a professor at san francisco state thinks this will actually boost nike's image. >> it's, you know, a continuation of a really strong history of athlete activism that nike is now inserting itself into. >> you'll remember kaepernick was the first to kneel during the national anthem at a football game, and now he's been out of a job. a football job, for more than a year. and he is suing the nfl. this ad, though, is a multi-year deal for him. it is helping mark nike's 30th anniversary of its just do it

campaign. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you, amy. you may want to set your car vents or air conditioner to recirculate today, and air quality advisory is in effect because of wildfire smoke. meteorologist mike nicco, is this still an improvement from yesterday, though? >> yeah, no spare the air alert. here's a look at your air quality forecast. where the confusion comes in is our summer spare the airs are usually for smog. the winter spare the airs are for smoke and fine particulate matter from wood burning we do in our fireplaces. the case is, we still have that fire to our north that's still pumping in a little bit of fine particulate matter but not enough to trigger a spare the air. just to let you know there's an air alert advisory. here's a look at what's going on as far as our commute. the south beach looking back towards the bay bridge. there's spotty fog developing in the north bay and along the coast. keep an eye on that. lighter breezes today, and for

mass transit, a summer spread from 60s in san francisco to 90s inland. in fact, we'll be in the 50s in san francisco up until about 1:00 and then the low to mid 60s for the rest of the afternoon hours. for the east bay valleys, we start off at 58 degrees with increasing clouds. sunny and 77 at noon. by 2:00, the mid to upper 80s. a comfortable evening on the way. 72 at 8:00, and our last stop, let's head to the south bay where we're starting off with inyei increasing cloud, but turn to sunshine. and low to mid 80s in the afternoon hours. pretty comfortable weather there. also, it's funny what a difference a day makes traffic wise. >> oh, yeah, and you know, we passed the point now, everyone is back at school. summer vacation is over. so yes, back to reality, i guess. like you said earlier, certainly going to be a busy commute today. much, much busier than the holiday yesterday when i think we were the only people working. we're looking at the south bay on the traffic maps and we have a lot of green here.

no incidents to report throughout the entire south bay, and taking you down further, if you're coming up from the santa cruz mountains, via highway 17, coming into los gatos, we're looking at all green traveling conditions. all of that looking great. here's a live look at state route 87 around san jose airport. no delays if you're heading to catch a flight. we'll look at mass transit coming up next. >> thank you. coming up, a hollywood walk of fame star vandalized overnight. whose it is and what it looks like now. >> that wasn't it. that was a car into a store. we'll see that video later on. today, life-changing technology from abbott

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this is abc 7 mornings. >> always good to get that first win against a team that's ahead of you in the wild card playoffs. that's what happened tonight. go for 2 for 2 tonight at the coliseum. sunset, 7:34. we'll drop from 73 down to 59. elsewhere, thunderstorms possible in yosemite. 86, near 100 in fresno. 102 in palm springs. cooler today in san diego, and also in l.a. temperatures in the upper 70s there. in the seven-day forecast for tahoe, we'll hover around 80 with a slight chance of a thunderstorm today. >> thanks, mike. >> new overnight, someone vandalized bill cosby's

hollywood walk of fame star. you can see now the words serial rapist over his name. police say it happened some time last night. in april, cosby was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in his home in 2004. dozens of women have also accused him of sexual misconduct. cosby's star has been vandalized before. that was four years ago. >> a bay area priest who took part in all three memorials for senator john mccain is back home this morning. >> you can see father edward reese in this video from saturday's memorial. he's on the far left with the glasses. father reese became friends with mccain while serving as the head of a private school that mccain's two sons attended in arizona. the priest said he was honored to be involved. >> knowing that, you chose and wanted me to be part of it was extraordinarily moving for me. and then just being with the family, seeing how strong they were, and how much it meant to

him is just dawning on me the larger scale of the thing. >> reese is currently the president of st. ignatius college prep in san francisco. an east bay dress barn is cleaning up a big mess. a 1988 cadillac drove right through the front window. this happened at the store in the elsurita plaza after yesterday morning. it hit display racks and mannequins. nobody got hurt. it's not clear what caused that crash. police helped the driver get a ride home. >> video of an annual labor day tradition in san francisco. hundreds of competitive cyclists whipped around the street corners during the 44th annual bike race. and this course took cyclists of all ages and experience leveled around levi plaza and surrounding streets. >> tiger woods fans were seeing double at the pga tour in boson. >> this is a tiger woods

impersonator cheering on the real tiger woods. the look-alike reached out his hand to get a high five, and nope, not today. he wore a red shirt, black baseball cap, and pants. just like the famous golfer. the impersonator took pictures with fans who came to watch the real woods play in the final round of the dell technologies championship. >> i can't believe he got snubbed. it would have been great to see a photo of the two together. >> oh, man. he was locked in. he was focused. do you think that all the fans who were taking pictures with the impersonator knew they weren't really getting a picture with tiger woods? >> i hope so. >> that would be a bummer if you got home and started to look at it, like wait a second. >> like unhollywood when you take pictures of the celebrities down there, spider-man or batman. >> it's not the real one? >> it's not? i always thought it was the real spider-man. >> let's take a look at what's going on outside. hi, everybody. yeah, mother nature trying to

fool us again. a little bit this morning. a little fog out there. we'll keep an eye on it. i'll show you that in the south bay, just seeing an increase in clouds. over 87 in san jose. you'll need the sunglasses quicker today. that will boost our temperatures a little over yesterday's levels. we'll have a little cooler. minor through the middle part the week and a quiet pattern through the weekend. we're into the dry season firmly right now. supposed to be in the warm season, especially for places like san francisco. first, let's look at petaluma at 3 and half moon bay at 3. your visibility okay, but it could decrease. so we'll watch that. all right, 78, milpitas. low to mid 80s for most of the south bay. 90s in los gatos, morgan hill, and gilroy. mainly mid to upper 70s on the peninsula. we'll be in the low to mid 60s along the coast today. mid to upper 60s in downtown and south san francisco and sausalito. you can see the fog rolling across the golden gate as we head into the afternoon hours.

low to mid 80s through most of the north bay. mid to upper 70s along the east bay shore. wubls you get to arinda, 84. keep heading to the east and you run into the low to mid 90s. my accuweather seven-day forecast. what you're doing to see, two to four degrees of cooling. not much for wednesday and thursday, and pretty steady for friday through monday. alexis. >> looks good. and we don't have any major issues. we're just seeing a lot more vehicles on the road today as you would expect. no longer the long holiday weekend and everybody is back at work and school. no metering lights yet. we should have about 35 minutes to go until they turn those on. and i definitely expect heavy backups into the maze this morning. mass transit may be the way to go for you, and everything looking good so far. 29 b.a.r.t. trains in service. no delays. ace 1 on time, and no delays for muni. >> thank you.

did you have problems with facebook or instagram yesterday? we're learning more about what may have caused an outage. here's this morning's tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, facebook's apps go dark. >> for just under 90 minutes on monday, messenger, whatsapp, instagram, and facebook itself were all knocked out. service was affected on four continents. facebook blamed the problem on a networking issue. another car company is taking on tesla. >> mercedes-benz will unveil its electric suv today. they showed this video, just close-up videos of the interior and silhouette of the vehicle. it's expected to get 310 miles on a single charge, slightly more than tesla's suv. >> a big milestone for google marking its 20th birthday >> the search engine had humble beginnings, founded in a garage by stanford students on september 4th, 1998. happy birthday.

those are your tech bites. >> coming up, a strawless september. the bay area city where we may not get a straw with your drink this month. this month. >> acalifornia phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours.

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islands. out over the open water, on rlec ohe big island is some dangerous surf. >> mike, thank you. an iraq war veteran and her comfort dog are back together this morning. >> they were reunited last night after the dog escaped its fairfield home over the weekend. fairfield police gave u.s. army veteran dana martinez the good news. they called her to say a woman found her german shepherd after seeing reports on the news. the woman says she found the dog wandering on a busy street, so she brought her home and called police. when martinez got to the house to pick her up, she said nala was ready to go. >> she doesn't like the car, but as soon as he opened the car door, she jumped in the trunk. we were trying to get her in the car. >> martinez says she's thankful for everyone who helped bring nala home. abc's new brand is sharing inspiring stories, and it's a new weekly digital series called more in common.

this week, it's the powerful journey of a navy veteran who lost both of his legs in combat. >> when i surf, i don't want to come back on land. it q on the ocean and kind of weightless and feeling the energy of the ocean. when i come back on land and i change out, i feel a bit more disabled. but when i'm out on the water, it really makes me feel alive and, you know, intense. >> we went out with dan. we watched surfing with him, having fun. we were looking at how he was actually surfing. we said, you know what? we're going to be able to help him take his surfing to a whole other level. we started collaborating. how could we make a custom surfboard that would work to fit my unique center of gravity, my unique body shape. >> we have learned so much helpt it's helping every veteran we serve. >> i think we really hit the

nail on the head with this latest design right here. >> and you can watch more in common on facebook watch. new episodes come out every single week. all right, let's go back and take a little greater look at gordon. most of the rain on live doppler 7 well off land, but hurricane warning. you can see just to the east in new orleans, through biloxi, mobile, and pensacola, this is where we expect the strongest winds and the highest storm surge. on either side, we expect lesser conditions. but tropical storm, at least 39-mile-per-hour winds. rainfall is going to be pretty impressive. look how very narrow it is. we get anywhere from about 6 to 10 inches of rain over the next three days. there could be some flooding in the midsouth. alexis. >> good morning, mike. overall, we're really quiet this morning. we don't have any incidents to talk about and we're looking at a fairly empty golden gate bridge. not seeing any major visibility issues. it is looking a little hazy but

a light drive from the north bay and all of our drive times looking good so far today. southbound 101 across golden gate, just six minutes. westbound 80, no metering lights. only eight minutes. westbound 92, also in the green at 13. >> happening today, bringing together the community and san francisco's chinatown. tonight is the chinatown night out. it was established as a way for the san francisco police department to build relationships with the chinese community. mayor london breed will also be there. chinatown night out starts at 5:00 p.m. in the south bay, it's strawless september in mountain view. >> the mountain view royce reports several restaurants and coffee shops have agreed to stop providing straws unless someone asks for it. one customer started the movement. she said the goal is to make more people aware of the environmental problems of

single-use plastic straws. >> if you're thinking about buying a new iphone, don't do it, yet. why it will pay to wait longer. >> plus, an iraqi war veteran's ride of a lifetime.00mi journey here in the bay area. the message she's sending to the world. >> a new honor for ed lee. where you could see a tribute to the late

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good morning, south bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. >> that's right, get up and get going. 5:00 a.m., back to work, back to school, and back to the grind. >> whatever you're doing, chances are you're back to it today. there's good news if you like warmer weather. good morning on this tuesday, september 4th. natasha has the day off. >> you're never more than seven

minutes away from your accuweather forecast. let's kick things off with mike nicco. >> good morning. hi, everybody. look at the gray, the cloud cover out there. notice the breeze is light until you get on 80, especially up towards fairfield where it's 29-mile-per-hour wind if you're coming to the west. here's a look at my 12-hour planner. temperatures pretty much the same as yesterday. mid to upper 50s. faster sunshino a little warmer in the noon hour. a little haze also. in the 60s except for inland in the upper 70s. we'll stay in the 60s at the coast. mid 70s around the bay, and upper 80s to low 90s, so warmer at 4:00. pretty nice evening on the way. jacket weather at the coast, 58. the rest of us, 58 to 76. how about the commute? >> other than things filling in much more quickly than yesterday ad really all the summer months, we're pretty quiet. we don't have any major issues to talk about. let's check out some of the speeds getting out of the tracy area, all the way down to 10 miles per hour, westbound 205, and 16 miles per hour on