of angel flight west are deeply saddened that this accident occurred and their thoughts and prayers are with those on board the aircraft and their loved ones. live in palo alto, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thank you. a man who survived a plane crash that killed his husband and the pilot is expected to head home from the hospital today. this is video. it happened near truckee in july. the plane on its way to pyramid lake when it experienced a pilot with the engine. the pilot and one passenger died. the only survivor eric raptosh. he was injured. after spending the last few months in rehab he is expected to go home today. loved ones started a gofundme as he continues to recover. if you're just joining us, a quick update on your weather and traffic and start with mike. >> hey, jessica, hi, everybody. a look from our exploratorium camera and see what the marine layer is doing. it's pretty fuzzy out there. can't see the top of the tallest

buildings downtown. a little fog to contend with in the north bay, mainly cloudy through 7:00, temperatures mid to upper 50s. as we head throughout the day we will be close to average with a little bit slower sunshin 60 at the coast this afternoon, 72 around the bay and 82 inland after being in the 60s and 70s at lunch. here's the latest on gordon. tropical storm right now ind jk mississippi, notice the moisture from the gulf into alabama. so we've got about two and a half million people that are under a flash flood watch from the gulf of mexico all the way up to about russellville, arkansas. some heavy rain is on the way for these folks over the next 48 to 72 hours. jessica, reggie? >> mike, thank you. tropical storm gordon has already turned deadly. >> a child was killed last night when a tree fell on a mobile home in florida. abc news reporter maggie ruly live in biloxi, mississippi. maggie? >> reporter: jessica and reggie, things are much quieter now here

in biloxi, but last night a different story. this started off as a massive storm and authorities here in biloxi were not taking any chances. we were under a mandatory curfew overnight. the casinos and hotels were shut down along the coast. now it looks like the worst of this storm is over for us here in the gulf. >> reporter: overnight, a powerful tropical storm gordon slams into the gulf. packing sustained winds topping 70 miles per hour, heavy rains and the potential for life threatening storm surges. the space station capturing gordon as it gained strength before making landfall ka goal la. ginger zee was there. >> this is when the rain and winds start to pickle your skin. >> reporter: the lopsided storm soaking everything east of center from biloxi, mississippi, to pensacola, florida.

this man's windshield wipers no match for the rain in alabama. nearby dauphin island. >> winds over 70. >> reporter: accuweather battles surge and coastal flooding. in pensacola gordon turned deadly. authorities say a child was killed after a tree fell on his home during the storm. states of emergency remain in effect across louisiana, mississippi, and alabama. as tens of thousands of people are waking up this morning without electricity, and the rain still pouring. >> we've got all the supplies that we need. we got batteries, flashlights, all that stuff. >> reporter: this storm is fast moving and just as quickly as it hit here overnight it seems to be moving out of the area. now the biggest concern that as gordon moves north it could slow down and may cause flash flooding further inland. abc news. jessica? >> thank you.

two of silicon valley's biggest companies will be on capitol hill. jack dorsey and sheryl sandberg will testify before the senate intelligence committee. they'll be asked about election meddling. later dorsey will go before a house energy and commerce hearing. he'll be asked about how politics factor into content decisions, including who gets banned from the site. lawmakers invited google executives to testify today also, but they declined. in protest virginia senator mark warner plans to leave a chair empty during today's hearings to symbolically represent google's absence. today's democratic senators will grill judge brett kavanaugh about his views on abortion, guns, and some other issues. [ screaming ] >> it got off to a rough start with tense exchanges and shouts from protesters on the first day

of confirmation hearings. at one point his young daughters had to leave the room. yesterday kavanaugh defended his independence. >> i'm not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. i am a pro-law judge. >> the trump administration claimed executive privilege and blocked the release of tens of thousands of documents from kavanaugh's time as a key aide in the george w. bush white house. democrats say they cannot evaluate the nominee without that evidence. new this morning, a warning to be aware of your surroundings. lafayette police are looking for two mass suspect who tried to grab a woman. it happened on mt. diablo boulevard just before 4:30 yesterday morning. police say the woman was walking to the lafayette bart station when two people pulled up in a dark car, one got out and tried to pull her in. she was able to get away. the two suspects took off. santa cruz police want to find this man. they say someone who looks like a sketch followed a 14-year-old

girl on the west side of town friday. he tried to get her to go into his car twice. she ran away. a surveillance camera captured this picture of his car and police say it does appear to be a nissan altima. a southern california couple faces felony charges after deputies say they got carjacked -- or carjacked an uber driver. authority says the couple ordered the ride back to their hotel in the city after a night of drinking in sausalito. investigators say the woman passenger started assaulting the driver by pulling her hair and ears. the driver stopped the car and got out. authorities say the male passenger jumped into the driver's seat and took off with the uber. >> the police put the vehicle into the stolen property system. a short time later san francisco police department located the vehicle. >> officers found it ditched in front of the w hotel where the couple was staying. uber says the company has removed the riders from the app

and that couple faces carjacking and robbery charges. they have bailed out of jail and left the hotel. new this morning, the chp arrested more than 1,000 drivers for suspected d ui over labor day weekend. >> the numbers from the labor day maximum enforcement period they say nearly two dozen died in crashes. the agency says that is up slightly from last year. you are never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. here's a look at some temperatures along the east bay shore. good morning, union city and hayward. you are at 60 and 61. everybody else about 57. orenda to 59 in oakland and alameda. a look in the north bay because i'm seeing a little fog develop around santa rosa. visibility 10 the roads will be quiet weather wise. maybe a little mist near the

coast. especially places like half moon bay and pacifica and daly city. ferry ride, light breezes today. mass transit cool to kind of comfortable. not as warm as it was yesterday. especially inland. here's a look at san francisco. it's going to be hard to escape the 50s but we will during the afternoon hours when the clouds finally do open up. we'll have some mid 60s around downtown, low 60s as you head towards the coast. we'll be back in the 50s early during the evening hours. east bay valleys nothing too hot here. waking up 59 with increasing clouds this morning. sunshine by noon and 76. hanging out in the low to mid 80s for the afternoon hours. down to 66 by 8:00. and for the peninsula, we're looking at cloudy conditions through at least 9:00. mostly cloudy at 10:00. and then mostly sunny by noon. 67. we'll hang out in the low to mid 70s during the afternoon hours. want to bring in alexis and take a look at your early morning commute. hopefully it's not too busy yet. >> it's not. but we have a sig alert already this morning. >> oh. >> we'll take you up to napa

county in the napa area, state route 29, downed power lines so not a safe situation. they can't let any vehicles through. this is a sig alert on the southbound side. between wine country avenue and trower avenue a full closure, one lane open on the northbound side. i am seeing a delay southbound for folks approaching that. you will have to hop off, take surface streets to get around it and hop back on. no estimate on when that will reopen. hopefully it's before the volumes pick up today. and a quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights not on yet, but we have a stack up in the cash lanes. of course metering lights usually on around 5:20. yesterday it was 5:19. i'll pass that along as soon as i get official word. next traffic update in ten minutes. >> thanks. coming up, you probably touched these this dozensf you're at the airport. >> also, an effort to make it easier to find out when the next bus is coming. what san francisco's transit agency wants to do.

>> something called candytopia has invaded san francisco. we take a sneak peek i

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teams. 62 at the coliseum, cool, 59 by the end. we're going to reach 100 in fresno, 104 in palm springs, upper 70s for san diego and los angeles, thunderstorms in yosemite, up to tahoe where it's going to be hazy this afternoon. as we look at the seven-day forecast for tahoe, it's going to be 79 today and tomorrow and then some 80s starting friday. >> thanks. new details about this tesla fire. it happened in west hollywood in june. the ntsb just released a preliminary report and investigators aren't sure what caused it. the driver was actress mary mccormack's husband and said the fire start out of the blue. tesla warned them ability possible reignition until the car's battery cooled down. a full report could take up to two years. police on high alert after thieves recently hit six bay area apple stores. we want to show you surveillance video from the crimes in corte madera, walnut creek,

emeryville, and santa rosa. apple stores in san francisco are taking extra precaution hiring uniformed police officers to keep watch. the president of the san francisco police officers association says it's no coincidence stores in the marina and union square are not been targeted. >> it's a deterrent when they are casing these locations whether or not they're going to go in and steal the products. >> officers are paid overtime to work these assignments outside of their regularly scheduled shifts. montoya says smaller cities may not have enough officers to provide the extra security. this morning there's another step in facebook's ongoing expansion. >> the latest building of its menlo park headquarters is complete. the social networking companies released images of mpk-29. it features an open work space. facebook says it's designe sterolboon teamanlso has quiet work

areas. the building features a 3 1/2 acre rooftop garden with more than 200 trees. sounds beautiful. so first we have the color factory, then the museum of ice cream, and now san francisco is going for the trifecta of instagram ready exhibits with the opening of candytopia. >> a sneak preview before it opens tomorrow. people of all ages can understood mire sugar sculptures made with real candy. the gallery includes art specific to san francisco including a 14,000 piece ode to steve jobs and sour belt warriors championship trophies. candy samples await visitors and self-proclaimed candy queen jackie sorkin says willy wonka and the chocolate factory inspired her to create the museum. >> one day i watched willy wonka, became obsessed with the story, right. so i love the color of the candy, the chocolate. i love that as a kid.

still do as an adult. it was the meaning of the story, where it was really dream big, be a good person, if you keep going you never give up. one day you might find your golden ticket. >> candytopia is in town until the end of november. tickets are still available on-line and you can find out more information on our website abc7news.com. >> yum. i guess you can like save up calories for a month and then go. >> yeah. >> i don't know. those mosaics are cool. >> no calories if you're just looking at the candy. if you're consuming it in every room. samples around every corner. >> field trip coming up. absolutely. grab your sun glasses if you're going to head out this afternoon to go anywhere. sun is going to come out just a little later today. hi, everybody. a look at walnut creek looking southbound 680 where the clouds are rolling in right now. a little hazy but not a spare the air day and the air quality alert expired yesterday. there will be a little smoke around and minor cooling today. warmest highs thursday, friday

and saturday and then back to average starting sunday. it's kind of a roller coaster forecast right now. here's a look at the cloud cover. you can see even by noon there's still plenty of clouds around the bay and by about 1, 1:30 it finally clears out and all the clouds at the coast and that's where they'll stay for the afternoon and early evening hours. temperatures not quite as big a spread in the south bay. upper 70s to near 80. milpitas the cool spot. try to get to 90s in gilroy. 69 in millbrae, 72 to 75 your spread on the peninsula. low 60s along the coast and mid to upper 60s for downtown and south san francisco and sausalito. around 65 to 67 degrees. upper 70s to low 80s through the north bay valleys. along the east bay shore 70 to 75. very comfortable there. as you move inland pretty comfortable here too considering it's september we're going to have mid to upper 80s there. as far as our temperatures tonight, low to mid 50s with cloud cover. my accuweather seven-day forecast, mid 90s by friday, low

80s around the bay and mid 60s at the coast. that's as warm as it gets the next seven days. >> good morning. overall, we're off to a fairly quiet start and looking at one of the busiest areas a little later in the morning yesterday. southbound 680 in walnut creek, boy we saw everyone back at it here, back to work and back to school after at least the long labor day weekend and maybe for the entire summer break. back to reality here this morning. same thing goes for tracy, westbound 205, 16 miles an hour, 15 miles an hour on 580. that is filling in and slowing down. hearing about a new problem in oakland. we'll check that out next. speaking of transportation, muni wants to make it easier to find out when the next bus is company. the board of directors got proposals to update the next bus service called next muni. in san francisco the system allows you to check bus arrivals in real time. officials say tracking technology has come a long way since that software rolled out 20 years ago. the agency says it wants to find

something a little more sophisticated and above all accurate. a major milestone for amazon. plus top sonocial media executis in the hot seat on capitol hill today. here's your morning's tech bites. social media giants heading to washington. >> executives from facebook, google and twitter will testify before congress today expected to face questions about the political content on their platforms and privacy concerns. amazon has become the second company to reach $1 trillion in value. only apple has done it before. >> analysts warn this could bring the company more scrutiny from lawmakers. they're worried that amazon is getting too powerful as it expands into more industries including health care. mercedes-benz has finally unveiled its first all electric suv looking to catch up with tesla. >> the zero emission vehicle will have a range of about 280 miles when fully charged. it's set to go into production next year. pricing will be announced closer to the launch.

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accuweather forecast. a lot of talk on social media about kind of how cool it was this summer. we only had four days of 100 degree highs around concord, two in livermore, one in santa rosa and napa and san jose, none. we could have a few more this month, though. keep it here. we'll let you know. new school year and new rules for thousands of fraternities across the country. they'll no longer be allowed to serve hard alcohol. the north american fraternity conference approved the ban that applies to 6100 chapters on 800 college campuses. the rule after the alcohol-related deaths two of pledges last year. fraternities will only be able to serve hard alcohol if they bring in a licensed third-party vendor. it's getting busier at sfo. san francisco international airport has set a passenger record for the seventh straight year. the airport reported 57.8 million travelers over the last

fiscal year. here's a live look now at sfo. strong international growth, new and added credited with the increase. the number of passengers boarding planes was up at all three major bay area airports with san jose's seeing the biggest increase at 17%. next time you go through airport security you want to wash your hands. >> the plastic bins used for shoes, liquids and carry-ones are hotbeds for viruss. this according to researchers at the university of nottingham and the finnish institute for health and welfare and looked at surfaces of hand rales, toilets, kiosk touch screens and toys in children's play areas of the airport. it was the security trays that have the most viruss on them. >> that's surprising. >> i was surprised by that too, mike. >> probably the shoes. >> use the hand sanitizer my friend. >> all of the tsa agents have gloves on.

that ought to tell you something. talk about the tropic, hurricane olivia continues to crank up. category 3, norman hanging around and that's the one we're concerned with as it tries to influence the big island in the rest of the chain as we head through tomorrow and into friday. the biggest concern, small craft advisory. that's it. thankfully no direct hit or flooding. none of that is going to happen. alexis, how about you? >> yeah. i don't have any terrible news. i'll phrase it that way. we are starting to get a little bit busier in all of our typical areas and a couple incidents to talk about already including eastbound 24 before college avenue. sounds like a solo vehicle crash and chp running a traffic break right now. you can see we have a bit of red approaching that. i think this will clear up pretty quickly. they're working to get the vehicle off the road. sounds like we may have injuries involved there too. in the meantime bay bridge commute starting to ramp up. no metering lights. volumes increasing into san francisco and i'm betting the metering lights will be on

pretty early again today. yesterday it was 5:19. thanks. anges coming to a small land at disney california adventure. yesterday the theme park closed a bug's land. an area based on the pixar film "a bug's life." sorry to say no more choo choo train or it's tough to be a bug show. you go through the box of animal crackers and smells like animal crackers, past the watermelon, only you can't do it anymore because it's closed replaced with a new super hero land featuring characters. the area is expected to open in phases in 2020 and i always say disney is the parent company of abc 7 news. we were talking about the 3d show, how much fun it is. >> it's one of my favorite attractions. okay. fav, adorbs. >> few of the 800 words the merriam-webster.com added to its

dictionaries. words make up a big portion of the list like instagraming and haptics. the dictionary has also accepted abbreviations like avo, guac and zuke. is this making you hangry. that is a new word. i get hangry. >> no one calls it avo. >> i've never heard of zuke. putting the loss in lawsuit. oakland losing the raiders and legal action could mean the team will head to vegas sooner than we thought. >> that story plus pg&e going to make -- going to work in the north bay. what it just installed to better anticipate the extreme fire danger. >> abc news has learned special counsel robert mueller sent presiden

good morning, east bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is "abc 7 mornings." >> leaving for las vegas. the raiders move out of oakland is inevitable. >> oakland may have sped up the team's exit out of the eastbound east bay. good morning. it is 5:00 a.m. >> you are never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. meteorologist mike nicco joining us now. >> hey, jessica, reggie, hi, everybody. a little fog developing around santa rosa. visibility two miles right now. alexis and i will keep an eye on that. didn't yesterday morning. a look at my accuweather 12-hour planner. same temperatures, dress for mid to upper 50s.