evacuations at an intense rate. >> here is a look at where it's burning in shasta county. north of redding and not far interest the shasta trinity national forest. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz. abc reporter lilian kim is tracking the spread of this fire. >> the video coming from shasta county is terrifying. one woman on interstate 5 posted video of the fire which is spreading fast. they're calling it the delta fire, and the latest video we're getting from an instagram user. she was caught in the middle of the freeway when flames began burning dangerously close to i-5 which is now closed in both directions from 10 miles north of redding to an area four miles south of mt. shasta. the flames broke out this afternoon and so far the fire has exploded to as many as a thousand acres. the shasta that county fire department is conducting evacuations on both sides of the freeway. several motorists have been rescued, and there has been at least one person injured. >> oh my god, i want to go! brandon, we got to get out and

walk. we can't stay right here. look, that side just caught on fire. well cannot stay right here. >> the u.s. forest service has launched a full aircraft and ground response. just in, fire officials say it's grown to 2,000 acres. this fire comes just weeks after the carr fire, which destroyed nearly 1100 homes and killed eight people in the same area. back to you. dan and ama? >> lilian, thank you so much for that update. tonight a cruze police officer is in the hospital after getting hit by a car during a police traffic stop. sky net 7 shows us it happened at broadway and ocean street in santa cruz as one of the officers was stepping out of a black unmarked suv, an unrelated car hit that officer. police did arrest the three suspects who apparently were wanted in alameda county for an undisclosed violation. the driver who hit the officer stayed and cooperated with police. the officer's injuries are not life threatening.

from silicon valley to the senate intelligence committee. >> both facebook and twitter admitted that russia set up fake accounts during the 2016 election. today facebook coo sheryl sandberg and jack dorsey both testified what they're doing to stop that from happening in the future. >> abc 7 reporter lyanne melendez is live now in the newsroom to explain how the companies they they'll accomplish that. >> this was the fourth and final congressional hearing on social media. one senator said where we go from here is an open question, but we know congress wants the take action as that same senator said the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end. facebook executive sheryl sandberg and twitter ceo jack dorsey acknowledged their companies were too slow to respond to foreign efforts the derail the 2016 u.s. elections. >> we were too slow to spot this

and too slow to act. >> we found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged. >> reporter: today both updated the senate intelligence committee on their progress to detect and stop foreign influence on their platforms. >> more transparency around ads and how they're argued the, and challenging suspicious log-ins and account creation. >> we have more than doubled the number of people we have working in safety and security, and we now have over 20,000 people, and we are able to view reports in 50 languages, 24 hours a day. >> it was nearly year ago that both companies were forced to admit that russia had set up fake accounts during the 2016 election, which highlighted their vulnerability. today twitter and facebook told the national two weeks ago they had removed several pages and closed accounts tied to russia and iran. while acknowledging they can't police the internet alone and would be open to the right

regulations. >> it's a step towards the right direction, but it's a long way for us. and mark zuckerberg is a hero to blog about this, saying this is a war, this is a race. >> noticeably absent was google, which was invited but refused to send any of its top executives. >> i would have thought that leadership at google would have wanted to demonstrate how seriously it takes these challenges. >> now google did not want to send larry page, and that did not sit well with the committee. instead, google suggested sending legal counsel. the committee declined. in the newsroom, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. >> all right, thank you. we have new details tonight about yesterday's deadly small plane crash near the palo alto airport. abc 7 news was near embarcadero road just a few hours ago as a tow truck lifted the airplane from a pond. investigators say they're still trying to find clues that point to what went wrong. the pilot was identified today as placerville resident john

spencer. he died when his single-engine plane crashed while having problems while landing. >> apparently bounced a couple of times. the pilot then elected to perform what's called a go-round, which is adding power and basically performing a takeoff. the airplane was airborne and the witnesses saw it then quickly descend into the water. >> both passengers survived the impact. spencer was flying emission for angle flight west to bring a patient and her mother to lucille packard children's hospital. in july a plane crash killed two men near lake tahoe and left one survivor that man is being released from the hospital with new challenges and brand-new outlook. eric thomas has the story from valley medical center in san jose. >> so we like to focus on what is possible, and we focus on rebuilding lives. >> he has to lean forward and he opsiti t tnsr s head the over. >> maneuvering from a wheelchair to a seat is now part of eric's life, something he's had to learn in weeks of physical

therapy. >> this journey has been quite incredible. >> he is 56. he is the only survivor of this july plane crash near lake tahoe that killed his husband, peter jackson, and their pilot. friends tell us they had just taken off from a nearby airport to take some pictures when the engine developed problems. the impact damaged his spine in two places and caused a severe head injury. >> i don't have any recollection of the -- taking off after that. and you wake up, and you're wondering who you are. >> he underwent at least eight surgeries in a tahoe hospital before being sent to valley medical center for rehab. he had trouble remembering words, putting together sentences, even doing simple math problems. physically, he couldn't move his legs. treatment meant putting him in the hands of a team of doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and mental health specialists. it wasn't always easy. >> it was like okay, here are ag you through hell. >> but every bit paid off in ways he could see and feel.

and that helped him stay positive instead of veering off to a dark place. >> i feel like today i'm in pretty good shape, and i'm ready to go. i feel like i have a second chance at life. and i almost feel like my life is just starting. >> personally, i feel like eric has far exceeded the expectations i had regarding his head injury and his ability to communicate and have insight into his current condition. >> eric is going home today, but there are months of physical therapy ahead of him. the probability is low that he'll ever walk again, but to lead the kind of life he wants to lead, there is still some hard work ahead. in san jose, eric thomas, abc 7 news. >> we wish him well. a woman walking to the lafayette bart station in the early morning hours yesterday was attacked at random and almost abducted by strangers in a passing car. now one person has been arrested. abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live from downtown lafayette with the very latest on this. leslie? >> i'm told a 19-year-old man from pittsburg, jordan wilson,

has been arrested for the attempted abduction, but two other suspects police say are still at large. they say the men approached the woman wearing masks. a woman walking here in the 3500 block of mt. diablo boulevard in the heart of lafayette was heading to an early bart train a few blocks away tuesday morning. police say a dark colored sedan pulled up alongside her at 4:25 a.m., and a suspect wearing a mask grabbed her and tried to pull her into the car. she escape and called for help as the car sped away. >> we have a citizen walking on the street who is approached by strangers and is essentially victimized. and for us, that's a crime that we can't let go unsolved. we've got to put all our resources behind it. and technology was definitely a component. >> lafayette police have an extensive network of surveillance cameras in the area, along with business and home security cameras. >> in this case, it was a camera that helped us identify the car

that was involved with the case, leading to us look manage the vehicle and apprehending someone. >> 24 hours after the attempted abduction, pittsburgh police made a felony stop on a vehicle matching the description at 4:15 this morning. with guns drawn, that made one arrest. >> that's weird. it's strange because you wouldn't think in lafayette that would happen. >> news of the attempted abduction shook up lafayette residents, workers and commuters. >> scary. nobody wants the hear that. we feel like we live in a really safe community, and, you know, no one's untouchable. >> no word yet on a motive. the 19-year-old is in jail pending $200,000 bail. two suspects still at large. in lafayette, i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> okay, leslie, thanks. some say change is hard, but california is making it easier. >> coming up on abc news at 6:00, how the state has cut through some red tape. >> i'm spencer christian. as you can see, we've had a sharp cooldown in the last 24

hours. when will it warm up again? i'll have the answer in any accuweather forecast, coming up. believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. >> get out your phone. go to abc7news.com/vote. what do you think of nike's

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danger to pedestrians below. the tower is in the newly named east cut neighborhood next to the salesforce transit center. melanie woodrow is live from san francisco with the details on this story. melanie? >> that is the big question tonight. what caused this exterior panel of glass to crack on the 36th floor. building officials say they won't know for certain until they replace the window within the next week and open up the side of the building to get a better look. the leaning, sinking millennium tower has a new problem, a cracked window on the 36th floor. >> this is a window system that is designed to withstand hurricane-force winds. so this is obviously of serious concern. >> the city's department of building inspection took these photos. tom miller, the attorney for the homeowners association said the person who lives in 36b heard a loud pop in the middle of the night over the holiday weekend. it's the outside pane of glass that cracked. >> is that glass going to hold or is it going to be a falling

object? >> the department of building inspection tells abc news an inspector has been through to the site three times. that inspector determined there is no imminent risk to pedestrians below, specifically because the glass is laminated and designed to hold in place even when fractured. the city issued this correction notice, letting the building's 34g9 kn management know they have until friday to issue an report including an evaluation of the repairs needed. miller says a new window has been ordered and will be installed within the week. during the replacement they'll open up the side of the building to investigate what caused the crack. the building's manager sent this notice to residents, saying it's possible the incident is related to other issues in the building. but miller says a seismic expert and structural engineer disagrees. >> he informed us that it appeared not to be related to the performance of the building sinking or tilting. >> as for those problems, the homeowners association president says they are considering alternatives to bring the building up to the highest standard.

he says it's now up to the legal process to determine who is responsible for implementing and paying for those fixes. in san francisco, melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. >> all right, melanie, thank you. one day after nike announced its new just do it campaign starring former 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick, the athletic apparel company released a two-minute-long commercial. >> now kaepernick is controversial, of course, because he was the first athlete to kneel during the national anthem before games to protest police brutality against blacks back in 2016. >> he hasn't played since then. we're going to show you nike's entire two-minute ad, and we want to know what you think. >> our live poll at abc7news.com/vote is up and running. watch the ad. here it comes and then vote. >> if people say your dreams are crazy, if they laugh at what you think you can do, good. stay that way.

because what nonbelievers fail to understand is that calling a dream crazy is not an insult. it's a compliment. don't try to be the fastest runner in your school or the fastest in the world. be the fastest ever. don't picture yourself wearing obj's jersey. picture obj wearing yours. don't settle for homecoming queen or linebacker. do both. lose 120 pounds and become an ironman. after beating a brain tumor. don't believe you have to be like anybody to be somebody. if you're born a refugee, don't let it stop you from playing soccer for the national team at age 16. don't become the best basketball player on the planet. be bigger than basketball.

believe in something. even if it means sacrificing everything. when they talk about the greatest team in the history of the sport, make sure it's your team. if you have only one hand, don't just watch football, play it. at the highest level. and if you're a girl from compton, don't just become a tennis player. become the greatest athlete ever. yeah, that's more like it. so don't ask if your dreams are crazy. ask if you're crazy enough. >> powerful. what do you think? we've been seeing live reaction to the ad come in at the bottom of your screen. it's all happening at abc7news.com/vote. both nike and colin kaepernick tweeted the video today, and nike reportedly plans to run the

ad during thursday night football tomorrow, the start of the nfl regular season. we'd love to hear from you. >> nike announced its kaepernick campaign on monday. yesterday nike shares dropped 3%. today the stock robbed by a half percent. over all the stock is up 28% this year. >> let's take a live look from the results of our live poll at abc7news.com/vote. >> you can see whether or not people are voting. a lot of people love it on the left-hand side. but a decent amount still hate it. they're on the right-hand side. >> we'd love to hear from you. you don't have to register or sign in. we make it easy. but we'd love to get your take on this. let's turn our attention to the weather forecast. thumbs-up for that. spencer christian is here. >> right now it's a little unusual. here is a look at live doppler 7. we have a deep marine layer. we have a brisk wind and temperatures all day quite a bit cooler than yesterday. the wind right now is gusting 14 miles per hour in novato, and we have wind speeds up to 17, 18,

even 20 miles per hour around much of the bay area. 29-mile-per-hour winds in fairfield, as a matter of fact. and the 24 hour temperature change shows it is 12 degrees cooler in concord right now than at this time yesterday. 14 degrees cooler at livermore, and most other locations are a few degrees cooler as well. on we go with a view of the scary sky. not really scary. over the bay from our rooftop camera. it is 59 in san francisco. oakland, 63. mountain view, 67. 73 in morgan hill. 57 at half moon bay. and a stunning view of the western sky. clouds adding some dramatic effect there to the soon to be setting sun. it is 63 degrees in santa rosa. napa, 65. mid 70s in novato, fairfield and concord. and 69 degrees at livermore. and one more live view from our mt. tam camera looking down on the advances marine layer. these are the forecast. low clouds will continue pushing inland overnight. it will be a little warmer tomorrow afternoon than today. of course that's not a tough one to beat, is it? and we'll be heating up inland

on friday. now where is that warmth coming from? water vapor satellite image shows a large warmer, dryer air mass developing offshore, moving generally in our direction. and as the warming starts tomorrow, it will peak in our inland areas and around the bay on friday. and there will be some warmth left over for saturday as well. another cloudy and relatively cool night. low clouds will push far inland. overnight lows generally in the mid- to upper 50s, low 50s in most of the north bay. tomorrow's highs a bit higher than today for sure. upward 80s. inland east bay up to about 80 down south. north bay 80s to santa rosa. 78, san rafael. mainly low 70s around the bay shoreline. quick look at what was tropical storm gordon, now tropical depression gordon. still a threatening storm, even as it weakens, as it's producing drenching rain across much of the southeast and the gulf coast up into the mississippi valley. excessive rainfall and flash flooding are likely through friday in parts of mississippi and arkansas off into parts of

missouri and illinois. so it's still a threatening storm. meanwhile, back here in bay area. nothing threatening about what's coming our way. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. mild to warm tomorrow. highs in the upper 80s inland, and a big jump in temperatures on friday as inland highs reach mid-90s. low 80s around the bay. there will still be some warmth on saturday with inland highs in the low 90s. up to about 80 around the bay. the heat eases on sunday, and we'll get a cooler and breezier pattern on monday, and it will get progressively cooler later into the week. >> thanks, spencer. did you think there wasn't anything left of the old bay bridge to blow up? >> apparently

a silicon valley startup that is shutting down leads tonight's bay area business watch. theranos shareholders received an e-mail about the closing. the palo alto-based company started in 2014 with a promise to make blood tests easier and cheaper. months ago the ceo, elizabeth holmes and a colleague were indicted on federal wire fraud charges. the couple knowingly lied about the accuracy and reliability of their products. tesla is being sued by a woman who said she had her model s in autopilot mode when she rear-ended a stopped fire truck at 60 miles an hour. she had minor injuries.

the crash happened in utah in may. the lawsuit alleges that tesla salespeople told her autopilot would ensure the car stopped on its own if something was in its path. this weekend will mark the official end to demolition of the old eastern span of the bay bridge. a pair of foundations from the original 1936 foundations will be imploded on saturday around noon. yes. a little bit of that. this is what it has look and sounded like during previous implosions. we thought caltrans had everything done last november after crews imploded a total of 18 foundations after dismantling the remnants of the old span. three foundations that were purposely left in place to be wa by y bheth by e new parks shoreline. here are renderings. for saturday's implosion, the chp will briefly stop traffic on

the bridge as a precaution. again, this is happening around noon. the ped tran and bike path is closed all week as the crews prepare. >> always appreciate a good implosion video to watch. >> yes. day two of the confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh had many of the same elements of day one. >> demonstrators and democrats, they're both concerned what could happen if this conservative gets a seat on america's highest court. i'm wayne freedman in marin county where the latest effort to save coho salmon on lagunitan creek has become a construction project. that's coming up. the raiders season opener is here on monday on abc 7. our preview coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. live from

live where you live, this is abc7 news. >> now the one e-mail is specifically entitled racial profiling. but somehow -- literally the e-mail was entitled racial profiling. that somehow it was designated as something that the public couldn't see. >> as the supreme court nomination hearing for brett

kavanaugh is in its 12th hour right now, democrats tonight are slamming what they say is a rigged process. and that was senator cory booker, angry over e-mails designated confidential for no apparent reason. >> democrats are also furious over hundreds of thousands of documents that have not been made public. here is a live look at the hearing now. it is still going. >> protester had to be escorted out just about ten minutes ago. you're seeing here california senator kamala harris. she is currently questioning kavanaugh. >> abc news reporter janai norman has the highlights from today's hearing so far. >> protesters chanted, yelled, and interrupted day two of judge brett kavanaugh's supreme court confirmation hearing, but that didn't stop senators from getting down to business. >> you are a republican, is that true? >> i registered -- >> was. >> you work for a lot of republicans. >> yes. >> like the president. >> for hours, senators grilled the nominee. one major issue he anticipated facing, abortion. >> i understand the importance

that people attach to the roe v. wade decision to the planned parenthood versus casey decision. i don't live in a bubble. i understand. i live in the real world. >> and a top concern for democrats is where kavanaugh stands on presidential powers. in the event the supreme court hears cases related to the president like the mueller investigation. he previously wrote presidents shouldn't be burdened by civil litigation, criminal investigation, and possible prosecution. >> can a sitting president be required to respond to a subpoena? >> my understanding is that you're asking me to give my view on a potential hypothetical, and that's something that every -- each of the eight justices currently sitting on the supreme court when they were sitting in my seat declined to decide potential hypothetical cases. >> and the tough questions from senators are expected to continue tomorrow. republicans want kavanaugh confirmed by the first week of

october, before the supreme court decides which cases they'll hear next session. and so far republicans have the votes to do it janai norman, abc news, washington. >> and back here now, new at 6:00. it's happened again. thieves targeted another bay area apple store this afternoon. this time it happened in downtown los gatos. sky 7 flew above the store on north santa cruz avenue. police tell us three men stormed into the store, ripped merchandise off the tables and dashed back out the front door. you're now looking at self-of similar crimes inside apple stores in corte madera. they have hit in burlingame and berkeley. police are working to see if the thefts are connected. well, also new at 6:00, presentation high school president and former principle mary miller has resigned after many allegations she mishandled student sexual abuse claims against staff. in a resignation letter to the board, miller says the allegations continue to be a distraction to the school and

she hopes her absence will bring some peace and i a lou the staff to focus on the success of the students. the attorney who represents former students applauds miller's resignation and says true change cannot occur until those responsible for past transgressions are held responsible. changing gender on official documents just got a lot easier in california. two new laws that went into effect this week will alu people to change their gender just by visiting the dmv starting in 2019. people can also change their birth certificate right now by going to the california courts website. before the new laws, officially changing gender required a doctor's approval and required applicants the appear in court. advocate says the difficulty was another difficulty for transgender men and women. >> and that's really important for a myriad of things. applying for a job, getting an apartment, you can imagine all the ways in which people need their identification to match the way they present externally. >> beginning in january, the law

will also allow drivers to easily change their gender on their drivers license. san francisco's mayor announced an ambitious plan today to boost clean energy technology across the city. mayor london breed unveiled the details from the upper terrace of moscone center where crews are installing a massive solar power system. when they're up and rubbing, the panels will give moscone the largest rooftop solar array in the city, producing 20% of the building's power. in marin county, bulldozers are moving some 16 million pounds of soil. but unlike most projects, they're rebuilding as much as tearing down. wayne friedman on the latest effort to keep coho salmon returning and breeding in their native habitat. >> despite its 21st century surroundings, lagunitas creek in marin county remain in more natural times, a functional ecosystem barely surviving as nature intended for steelhead trout and coho salmon.

>> the best in the state and we're talk about 200 nests, so maybe 400 fish. >> saving this habitat had been a two decade project for him at the turtle island restoration network. it is a two-year, $5 million project funded by several state agencies to recreate natural wetlands here. theoretically, it's fairly simple. in wintertime, when heavy rains come and this creek runs fast, the young fish have nowhere to seek refuge. this project provides that. >> they're only one to two inches in size. and when those big storms happen, they just get washed downstream and killed. >> steiner has been a polarizing figure in these parts. environmentalists love him. critics say he is ambitious to a fault. many the past year his plan for the county to buy san geronimo golf club and restore to it parkland for the sake of the fish has led to a local petition for a ballot initiative to stop it. >> we have 193,000 acres in marin of open space, and they

don't need another 157. >> meantime, steiner moves on here. his plan includes landscaping the one mile of work with 10,000 plants from their own nursery. >> we're planting out alders, colts foot, junkus. >> are they all native? >> they're all native right here to this area. >> and all designed to recreate the natural order along lagunitas creek in marin county, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> gorgeous. well, surfing is going to be part of the olympics starting in 2020. >> and there is a determined woman who wants to take part in the first games. >> see her in action and see how you can help her achieve her dream. a crew is hired to take away a woman's unwanted furniture, only they didn't

a young woman from west africa is making a splash in santa cruz. she is in training for the olympics, and is hoping to make the team from her native senegal. >> just six weeks after her arrival, he is impressing not only coaches, but also other surfers at steamer's lane. >> reporter david louie has the story from santa cruz. >> 22-year-old haju is adjusting

to the much cooler waters of the pacific. she is believed to be the only woman surfer in her native senegal in west africa, and she is here to train with the goal of making her country's olympic team in 2020. the first time surf willing be an olympic sport. french is her native wudge, but even in english she commutes her love of surfing. >> i like surfing i can catch the wave and i go. >> she connected with a special coach and competition judge rhonda harper, whose mission is to identify and train more black women to enter professional surfing. she arranged for haju to come to santa cruz for intense training. it's a tough training regimen. the coach has her out of bed at 6:00 in the morning, down here surfing all day, and then hitting the gym as well. she has made progress. next week she has her sights on going to japan to compete in a qualifying event that leads to the olympics. but the problem is money. despite fundraising, she is $1400 short. a gofundme campaign is trying to

fill that gap. >> she has put every ounce of her body into this. we've had injuries already. we've had sickness where she had to get used to the environment. she's worked very hard to be here. and it just seems like it would be a huge disappointment if that didn't -- this f that goal didn't get accomplished. >> one of her biggest supporters is surfing coach rick pruitt who recognized her passion the first time they went surfing together. >> as soon as we got in the water, she was being very aggressive in the water, hitting the lip, really hitting her bottom turns and cutbacks and being aggressive and hingery. and that impressed me. >> other surfers have been welcoming her. she has ambitious goals. in santa cruz, david louie, abc 7 news. >> good for her. i bet she did have to get used to the cold pacific. >> absolutely. let's take a look at our weather outside at santa cruz right now. >> spencer will be back with the forecast for all days that end in y

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all right. you'd think it would just be easy to get rid of your old furniture. >> right. but it turned into quite an unpleasant experience actually for a san carlos woman. not as easy as she hoped. >> 7 on your side's michael finney explains. >> this one has a twist you're

not ready for. i want you to imagine you are in this situation. this bay area homeowner hired workers to haul away her stuff. they picked up as planned. the thing took an unexpected turn. >> this is all new. >> joyce faulkner enjoys her new furniture. her old sofa was so worn, charities wouldn't accept it. so she left it outside waiting for workers to take it to the landfill. she used takl. >> used them before, and the app works well. >> the workers came and joyce gave them a high rating. the next day she was driving down the street when she was stunned. there it was, her furniture sitting right in front of a neighbor's house just a couple of blocks away. >> turned to my le, and i go oh, hey, that looks like my furniture. that's my furniture. >> the neighbor, who also spotted the furniture in front of her home did not like it either. >> we were coming back home with

my husband, and i saw this furniture. what is that? who put it there? >> joyce called takl immediately to complain. she also contacted her neighbor through the next door app to apologize. the day later, when takl hadn't picked up the furniture, joyce grabbed all the stuff and brought it back to her own home. >> i wanted to have a clear conscience. and i knew it wasn't her problem. this was my problem. >> her furniture sat in her truck in her driveway for four days while she waited for takl to take care of the mess. she finally grew frustrated and contacted 7 on your side. we contacted takl. it said providers must comply with job specific responsibilities, and takl's terms of service or risk losing access to the platform. the furniture was removed the next day. >> they return your money? >> yes, they did, finally, because of 7 on your side. >> julia received a refund of $100. the two neighbors met for the

first time when we brought them together for this interview. >> i am really pleased to have met my neighbor, even the accident was not very pleasing. >> 7 on your side bringing people together. over junk. joyce said takl told her the crew she originally hired has been removed from the takl platform. yeah, do you think? i want to hear from you. my 7 on your side hotline is open monday through friday from 10:00 to 2:00. 415-954-8151. you can reach me on my facebook page and through abc7news.com. >> nice of joyce, though, not to just leave it in front of her neighbor's yard. >> isn't she a good person. >> and how dumb to drop it down the street. >> thank you, michael. >> sure. >> believe in something. even if it means sacrificing everything. >> and let's wrap up the topic of tonight's live poll. what do you any of nike's kaepernick add.

you' >> the results are on the bottom of your screen. we're getting a lot of love it and lot of hate it. not much in the middle. people seem to pick the two extremes. so we'd love to hear from you. you don't need to register or sign in. >> a simple vote on your phone. time for an update on our forecast because i want to know what's going on back here. >> spencer here. >> let's not take a fall on that. going on right there. live doppler 7, we have a deepening marine layer, and it's about to start pushing back over the bay area again, after hanging around a long time today, blocking out the warming. let's go over to the tropical atlantic where former tropical storm, now tropical depression gordon is centered up in northwestern mississippi. still a big rain producer. in fact, through friday potential for excessive rainfall and maybe even flash flooding in parts of mississippi, arkansas, missouri and illinois. we'll keep watching that some locations could get up to seven additional inches of rainfall out of the storm that has already drenched the gulf coast. meanwhile, back this the bay area tomorrow, it will be warmer than today. we'll see high temperatures

inland int the upper 80s, especially in the inland east bay. 82 in santa rosa. 77 vallejo. 89 at morgan hill. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. we'll have a big bump up in temperatures on friday. inland highs in the mid-90s. low 80s around the bay. the heat begins to taper off a little bit going through the weekend, and there will be further cooling under breezy conditions early next week. >> okay. thank you, spencer. >> jimmy g. >> yeah, larry is here with sports. >> we will talk a lot about jimmy g. this season. at least that's the plan for the niners. they open the season sunday in minnesota. jimmy g. is the opposing quarterback. on the sideline is the qb

now abc 7 sports with larry beil. >> good evening. raiders open the season on monday night football against the rams. only five days away. a game you can watch right here on abc 7. the raiders are going to face one of the best defensive fronts in the entire nfl, but coach jon gruden is actually hoping to keep aaron donald and ndamukong suh on the field as long as possible. abc 7's mindi bach has more. >> the raiders best defense may be its own offense. derek carr and company need to keep jared goff and todd gurley off the field. the rams' last season were the most prolific, scoring nearly 30 points a game. >> the easy thing is let's go out and have a pep talk and have 36 minutes of possession.

i used to work on those talk shows. so the best way to win this game is to do something when you have the ball. we're going to have to score. obviously, when we get our chances to run it, we're going to have to deal with some loaded boxed a some talented ram defenders. i can't wait to see how we dot. >> crazy. so the year before last that. >> put up the least amount of points. and last year they put up the most. it's been a huge shift for them. and you never know. we might have to go out there. it might have to go out there and score eery possession. so you never know. >> that would be quite the feat as jon gruden and the raiders incorporated new players into the offense just this week. >> it is crazy right now. and luckily my receiver coach, coach jb just told me for the first couple of days while i'm learning, so i'll be the receiver on rotating whenever he gets tired. >> the coach does a phenomenal job of plugging people into the spots he wants them and bringing them up to speed as quick as possible. he has done an phenomenal job so

far and the offense is complete and we're a well oiled machine. >> mindi bach, abc 7 sports. niners. the acquisition and then immediate success of jimmy garoppolo reinvigorated the entire 49ers franchise. optimism is high this season. the niners open sunday in minneapolis. before jimmy g., kyle shanahan had his eye on a different quarterback. ki kirk cousins, was often rumored to be a target of the niners until that trade that brought in jimmy g. in hindsight, things worked out perfectly for the niners, but shanahan found out for a minute when he found out he would not be reunited with cousins, he told john he was in mourning. >> i told him how bad of a choice of word that was. but no, i understood what he was trying to say. i still do have a lot of respect for kirk. and i think he is in a very good situation and went to a very good place. and i'm very happy for him for

that with what he has been through. and i'm extremely happy with who we have here, and where we're at and the decision that we made on who to go with before that. . that is for sure. the le'veon bell holdout in pittsburgh, this thing is getting pretty ugly. it's not player versus management over money anymore, now it's player versus player. the steelers, the players thought bell was going to show up today and play with them in their opener on sunday. he didn't show. and now his agent is saying bell's holdout may continue. two knows how long. james conner will start in bell's spot against the browns on sunday. >> you know you have $14 million looming out there and you're still not hearing the team really wants you here. at this point, we got conner. >> and the ultimate team sport we've created a league of individuals. it's all about get your money, get paid. i love it. but you're not getting younger. win it, get paid next year. >> they are not happy with le'veon bell. ben some epic matches at this year's u.s. open. last night rafa needed five sets

to advance. marin cilic. that's ama during the 4:00 news. nishikori down the line here to win the third set. cilic. nishikori long. cilic wins that. over four hours into the match, and cilic watching nishikori blister a forehand. cilic unable to get to it. so nishikori with the upset of the seventh seeded cilic. 6-4 in the sixth set, and he is on to the semifinals. >> a lot of long matches. >> a lot of that. >> thanks, larry. join us tonight at 9:00 on kofy tv 20, cable 7/13 and right here for abc 7 news at 11:00. >> an exploding wildfire shuts down i-5 near redding. cars are abandoned as new evacuations have just been ordered. join us at 9:00 and 11:00.

now coming up tonight, at 8:00 the goldbergs followed by american housewife at 9, modern family and another episode of american housewife for you. then at 10:00, shark tank and then stay with us for abc 7 news at 11:00. >> that will do it for this edition of abc 7 news. look for breaking news any time on the abc news app. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm dan ashley. for all of us here, we appreciate your time. hope to see you again at 9:00 and 11:00.

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