live where you ab news. >> the bomb squad out in full force this morning in san francisco. a suspicious package in the richmond district forces streets to closed'd and neighbors to avoid the area. thanks for joining us. i'm kristen sze. muni was rerouted during the closure this morning. amy hollyfield is live at fourth and cabrillo. >> reporter: hi, good morning, kristen. the bomb squad has given the all clear. people are now free to move about this neighborhood. everything looks normal again. here is what it looked like, though, just within the past hour. you can see, the blocks were shut down. there were two packages at fifth and cabrillo, in sfan francisco

one marked hazardous, and flammable. police blocked off the intersection and took the perimeter out a block in each direction and brought in the bomb squad to investigate. they say they got the call around 9:00 this morning. they were here for a little more than an hour. while residents stopped to watch and wonder what was going on. police gave the all clear. the captain told us about when a they found. >> the metal box contained absolutely nothing. and then there was another package that was nearby that contained some radio equipment, so it's always better to err on the side of caution and do all this and make sure it's safe for the community. >> surprised to see it was such a big deal, but i'm glad they checked it. just to make sure it wasn't something awful. yeah, now it's clear. i'm going to go home and go to bed. >> reporter: police tell me they don't think this was a hoax. just some boxes that were discarded on the sidewalk.

the captain did say people should be careful, think twice about what you leave behind. when you leave a box behind that's labeled with those words, police are going to have to check it out. live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you zblch. developing this morning the city of oakland plans to sue the nfl and raiders over the team's mo move to las vegas, a move that could result in the team leafing one year early. the "chronicle" reports they're expected to file the antitrust lawsuit within days agreed upon by the city without consent of the committee. if it's sealed or if it's filed the team will not sign a contract to remain in oakland another year. a council member said danls could reach a half billion dollars. two social media giants are defending what they're doing to stop foreign hackers from impacting the upcoming november elections here in the u.s. this morning, twitter ceo jack dorsey and facebook's second in command, sheryl sandberg, both appeared at a senate hearing on

capitol hill. google executives did not speak before the intelligence committee. both twitter and facebook talked about what they're doing to prevent a repeat of 2016 election hacking by russia. >> we're removing e ining 200% . we're evaluating 8 million to million suspicious accounts a s every week. >> making progress on face news, getting rid of the incentives that create it end limiting the distribution it gets on facebook. >> one quarter of u.s. facebook users deleted the app from their phone. the pew research center found this following scandals on facebook abused users' personal information. new at 11:00, vermont senator bernie sanders and south bay congressman are introducing what they're calling an anti-corporate welfare bill today. this is video tweeted by sanders. the legislation will place a 100% tax on large corporations equal to the amount of federal

benefits received by their wage workers. sanders has criticized companies especially amazon claiming they don't pay their workers a living wage. amazon has called sanders' attack inaccurate and misleading. this morning the white house denying bombshell claims in a new book that paints the president as uncontrollable and a danger to national security. the book "fear" written by respected journalist bob wo woodward portrays the white house ton the blink of a nervou breakdown but claims it's no more than fabrication. >> reporter: abc news obtained an advanced copy of "fear," written by bob woodward and points a picture of white house aides struggling to rein in president trump trying to prevent him from making catastrophic mistakes. among the claims, former chief economic adviser gary cohn allegedly swiped sensitive papers off the oval office desk to keep the president from seeing them reportedly saying,

"got to protect the country." after a discussion about strategy on the korean peninsula, according to the book, defense secretary james mattis told associates the president, "has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader" and once during a meeting woodward says chief of staff john kelly called the president an idiot saying, "it's pointless to try to convince him or fig. he's gone off the rails. we're in crazy town." of his embattled attorney general jeff sessions, according to the book the president reportedly said, "this guy is mentally retarded, he's this dumb southerner." >> he may have hundreds of hours of tapes but most come from disgruntled former employees. a lot of anonymous sources. >> reporter: the veteran journalist doesn't name sources but conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses and released a conversation he had with the president after the book was written. >> i never got a call, never got a message. what did you ask about speaking to me? >> well, about six people. you know -- >> they don't know me.

>> a senator, i talked to kellyanne about it 2 1/2 months ago. >> senator graham actually mentioned it quickly on one meeting. >> reporter: president trump responded calling woodward's book, quote, made up and a con to the public. chief of staff john kelly called it pathetic and total bs. defense secretary mattis said it's a product of someone's rich imagination. but so far, no denials from gary comn and others mentioned by name in the book. abc news, washington. shifting gears, nike's stock rebound folifol i following the recent add campaign involving colin kaepernick. the new campaign features the former 49er and reads, "believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything." alluding to his kneeling protest during the national anthem over social injustice. in the past hour kaepernick and nike tweeted out the video version of the ad.

>> don't ask if your dreams are ou're crazy enough. ♪ >> the ad runs two minutes long. we have posted a link to our website, abc7news.com, if you want to see it. now, everybody has weighed in on this issue. many people from consumers to the president. so we created a facebook badge, will you continue to buy nike products in the wake of this? go to facebook.com/abc7news and vote. happening now, president trump's controversial supreme court candidate brett kavanaugh is on capitol hill, two of his confirmation hearings. democrats repeatedly interrupted kavanaugh's first day on the hot seat saying if he's appointed, he could act as a legal shield for the president. senator dianne feinstein of california grilled the circuit judge, she asked him whether a vote for him is a vote against a

woman's right to choose. >> as a judge, as a judge, it is an important precedent of the supreme court. by it, i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood. been reaffirm md timed many tim. i understand the significance of the issue. >> 70 arrests were made, by the way, during yesterday's hearing. many protesters. developing news in alameda. police are investigating a series of attempted sexual assaults at crown state breaeac. another woman says the psalm thi same thing happened to her saturday. a third attempt was reported august 5th near the park. police believe all three incidents may be connected to the same man. now the latest on what's now tropical depression gordon. the system is making its way through alabama and the florida panhandle. flooding remains the major concern as gordon could dump a foot or more of flash flood warnings were issued

for several counties in south alabama, and the florida panhandle. more than 40,000 are still without power. meantime, there's yet another system that we're track iing. florence, mike? >> yeah, florence out in the atlantic. this is becoming the height of the hurricane season. let's take you there and we'll go on down to show you what's going on. started out 24 hours ago as a category 1. 7 4 mile per hour winds. it definitely spun up. now it's a category 3. major hurricane with 125 mile per hour winds. right now it's a fish storm. moving to the northwest at about 13 miles per hour. as you look over the next 120 hours or so, which takes us up to monday morning at 5:00, it is still well out over the ocean. right now, see that mass of gray you see along the eastern seaboard? that's a cold front. that fingers crossed will keep florence away from east coast. it will recurve it up to the north and eventually back off to the east. for us coming back home, you can see a lot of gray out there still. temperatures up to 5 to 6

degrees below average for today. i've got the 90s coming up in your forecast. i'll have that in a few minutes. send it back to kristen. >> all right. i know. it's been ahi seen each other. i'm kidding, mike. thank you. former yahoo! ceo marissa myers looking to make her mark many palo alto, some say the project is like a community center. others consider it a private club. it's located at a former mortuary at middlefield in addison. abc 7 news reporter matt keller is live at the site with the controversy. matt? >> reporter: marissa myer bought this in 2013. neighbors say it's mostly been used for her holiday parties. now they have big concerns about these new plans. marissa myer was a tech titan running yahoo! for years and was one of google's top executives. newest project turning this formform er mortuary into what she's calling the corner house. it will be home to various classes, workshops, special events and collaborative spaces

with the focus on providing a supportive place for working women especially mothers as they seek to balance their work and family lives. the city says a proposal mostly limits the use of paying members and membership is limited. making it more of a private club than community center. neighbors say myers has been using the property to throw big holiday parties. >> this is her way to have all of her people over, all her friends over, to throw her a party. even though she's trying to open it up and saying, heys this is for them. >> reporter: myers says 150 people would be anticipated to use the facilities on average throughout the day with a maximum of 300. special events during the evenings or weekends could bring in up to 400 people. neighbors we spoke with say they're concerned about parking, traffic, and the noise. >> it's going to be destructive, anyway. the school across the street, everything else, we don't need it. >> reporter: a study session with the city council is scheduleded for september 10th. that's expected to be postponed until october. if you want details of the plan on the new facility that's going

to go here, go to our website, abc7news.com. . we're going to put up a link there. reporting live if palo alto, matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thatnk you. the world's richest man is putting his money where his mouth is. the initiative jeff bezos is throwing billions behind ahead of the elections. a man intentionally plowed

take a look at the scene out of downtown dallas this morning. police say a man intentionally rammed his pickup through a local tv station's building. it happened actually during a live newscast. thankfully, no one was hurt. officials say after the man crashed, he jumped out of the pickup and began ranting and scattering paper everywhere. he was arrested. the bomb squad responded because the man had a suspicious bag with him but the all clear was later given. new at 11:00, amazon ceo jeff bezos made his largest political contribution ever. he contributed $10 million to with honor, a nonpartisan organization and superpac that seeks to increase the number of veterans in politics. that's a third of the organization's goal for this november. back in 2012, bezos contributed $2.5 million to help uphold california's same sex marriage law. a viral campaign raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a homeless veteran. but the money disappeared and now lawyers and gofund me are

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now your accuweather forecast with mike nicco. >> let's go back in time if you will and take a look at the sunrise, a lot of us couldn't see it unless you 2 2 2,500, 2,600.

almost covered the picture. sorry about that. the way it looks now, things are definitely starting to clear out, albeit even slower than yesterday. that's why we'll have minor cooling today. hazy sunshine during the afternoon hours except the coast where the clouds will be stubborn. a warmup thursday, friday and saturday. will bring temperatures back to average as we head into sunday, monday and tuesday of next week. i overlaid the cloud cover, that's the gray you see. definitely see the temperatures in the upper 50s along the coast in san francisco. because of the lack of sunshine. and then low to mid 67 0s elsewhere. 7 70s san jose. 80 up in clear lake. cloverdale and santa rosa still in the clouds and 25 degrees cooler in the mid 50s. by the afternoon hours the sunshine comes out. 81 in san jose. little bit below average. we'll be 5 degrees below after r r average on the peninsula also. low 60s along the coast today. 65 in downtown. south san francisco, about 67 degrees this afternoon. up along the north bay, not as

much sunshine as yesterday. low to mid 60s. as you head inland, look at the 7 os out there. in fact, we've got petaluma, sonoma, san ramoramon, upper 7 . clear lake, cloverdale, 9 0s up there. low to mid 70s along the east bay shore. keep moving to the east bay valley and comfortable weather. mid to upper 8 os. this is going to be the area that's most close to average or closest to average if you will. a's taking on the yankees. third game of the three-game set. both teams have won. playoff preview, if things ended now, the season that is. 7:05, 62, dropping down. dress warmly. low to upper 50s tonight with cloud cover about everywhere. a little mist possible along the coast. want to go back to gordon, see it's starting to stretch out as it unwinds now. we've got alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, arkansas, and tennessee all under the possible -- possibility, if you will, of

flooding especially areas in greenwich stretches from arkansas back to the panhandle of florida. nearly 2.3 million people could deal with that. here's another look at the tropics this time on the other side. worried about norman. it's a category 3. look at the track. it barely misses takes the right-hand turn and weakening down to a tropical storm as we head toward saturday morning. it will kick up some waves up to 18 feet. so everywhere you see red, which is just about the east-northeast parts of each island, that's where we have the high surf warning. until 6:00 friday morning. hawaiian time. all right. let's take a look at what's going on with my accuweather seven-day forecast, how about low to mid 90s? inland for thursday, friday and saturday. back in the mid to upper 80s. we'll spike in the low 80s along the bay friday and saturday. the coast going to recool in the low to mid 60s. homeless veterans fighting a couple over a gofund me account headed to court this morning.

you know the story. he used his last $20 to help a stranded woman without gas in philadelphia. in return the driver and her boyfriend started a gofund me campaign that raised more than $400,000 in donations. now, the che says the couple sp much of the money and he's back living on the street. after deliberation, he started to sue. >> i didn't want to be pressuring to get a lawyer or do anything, because i didn't want to appear ungrateful. >> well, last week a judge sided with him in court and ordered all the money be returned. bobbitt's attorney said it hasn't been transferred. the couple's attorney said they held on to half of the money out of fear he'd spend it on drugs. he admits he has struggled with addiction in the past. yesterday, gofund me said it will guarantee the funds raiseded for him. any working moms or dads out there who could use a free island vacation? after the break, the way united could make your dreams

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>> one of our contestants today may make more money in the next 30 minutes than they have in the past 30 years. so stay right where you are. it's time to play "who want to be a millionaire!" [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] ♪ hey, everybody, welcome to the show. you guys ready to go? [cheers and applause] let's welcome our first contestant. a mother of two from mesa, arizona, tiffany bolton. >> hello. >> hi. >> hi. >> welcome. >> thank you. so excited to be here. >> are you ready to make some money? >> you have no idea, chris. we're going to do this. >> you and i. >> we're going to do this. >> let's do it. >> let's go on this journey. >> it's just 14 questions standing between you and that $1 million. [cheers and applause] you have three lifelines. they're there if you need them. >> okay. >> let's start that journey. let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] [dramatic musical flourish]