report from abc news. i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the

most and has had the most lasting impact on my life. >> my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations. >> emotional and dramatic testimony today on capitol hill as the senate investigates allegations of assault against brett kavanaugh. good afternoon, i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. the hearing got under way at 7:00 this morning california time, lasted almost nine hours. christine blasey ford testified first and brett kavanaugh gave his testimony in the early afternoon. both have unlimited time for their opening statements. blasey ford described the alleged assault. >> i was pushed from behind into a bedroom across from the bathroom. i couldn't see who pushed me. brett and mark came into the bedroom and locked the door behind them. there was music playing in the

bedroom. it was turned up louder by either brett or mark once we were in the room. i was pushed onto the bed and brett got on top of me. he began running his hands over my body and grinding into me. i yelled, hoping that someone downstairs might hear me and i tried to get away from him, but his weight was heavy. brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes. he had a hard time because he was very inebriated and because i was wearing a one-piece bathing suit underneath my clothing. i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life. >> now, after senators questionedup court nominee judge brett kavanaugh went before the committee and he also gave a

very emotional opening statement. >> this has destroyed my family and my good name. a good name built up through decades of very hard work and public service at the highest levels of the american government. this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit fueled with apparent pent-up anger about president trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the clintons and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups. this is a circus. i swear today under oath before the senate and the nation before my family and god, i am innocent of this charge.

>> and abc 7 news anchor dion lim was outside the hearing and joins us live from capitol hill in the atrium where a rally was held earlier. >> reporter: i should point out exactly why i'm not closer to that hearing room. it is because dr. christine blasey ford has received so much attention she is under such scrutiny, her family even receiving death threats, there is plenty of extra security on hand. the hearing itself was moved into a much smaller room than usual. washington insiders tell me this is unlike anything they have seen before. emotions were high in and out of the hearing room. each senator was given five minutes to ask christine blasey ford questions. >> what is the strongest memory you have, strongest memory of the incident, something that you cannot forget? >> indelible in the

is the laughter, the up laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense. >> reporter: republican senators deferred their questions to prosecutor rachel mitchell. some of what she asked was who knew what and when. >> why did you contact "the washington post" on july 6th. >> i was panicking because i knew the timeline was short for the decision, and people were giving me advice. many people told me you need to hire a lawyer. i didn't do that. i didn't understand why i would need a lawyer. somebody said call "the new york times," call "the washington post." put in an anonymous tip, go to your congressperson. when i weighed those options, i felt like the best option was to try to do the civic route, which is to go to my congressperson, who happens to be anna

so i called her office and put in an anonymous tip to "the washington post." unfortunately, neither got back to me before the selection of the nominee. >> reporter: after a recess, brett kavanaugh took his place at the table. democratic senator dick durbin questioned whether kavanaugh supports an fbi investigation into the allegations against him. >> i welcome whatever the committee wants to do because i'm telling the truth. >> i want to know what you want to do. >> i'm telling the truth. >> i want to know what you want to do, judge. >> i'm innocent. i'm innocent of this charge. >> you're prepared for an fbi investigation? >> they don't reach conclusions, you reach the conclusions. >> but they do investigate questions. >> i'm innocent. >> you can't have it both ways, judge. you can't say at the beginning i welcome any kind of investigation and then walk away from this. >> this thing was sprung at the last minute after being held by staff, you know. >> judge -- >> and i called for a hearing immediately. >> reporter: when it was

republican senator lindsey graham's turn, he went after democrats and said this wasn't a fair process. >> if you wanted an fbi investigation, you could have come to us. what you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open and hope you win in 2020. you've said that. not me. you've got nothing to apologize for. when you see sotomayor and kagan, tell them that lindsey said hello, because i voted for them. i would never do to them what you've done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. >> reporter: now, as emotions ran high inside the hearing room, the same could be said for demonstrators on both side of the aisle. there was a small group of republican women in support of judge kavanaugh gathered at a nearby park. in that group i met a woman who grew up in the bay area and isn't sure what will happen after today's hearing. >> i really don't know. i'm nervous about it because i don't trust the media, no

offense, guys, but i think the media is so completely slanted against this administration. i'm not happy with that at all. >> reporter: in contrast, a much larger crowd of at least 300 or 400 supporting the "i believe christine" movement gathered at a nearby atrium. there i caught up with karen. >> i don't think republicans have the votes to pass him. i would urge the republicans to do the investigation with the federal bureau of investigation if they are indeed going to pursue a vote. they have to have the investigation first or they will lose all credibility with the public. >> reporter: okay, no matter what political stance you have, i want you to take a look at this building and imagine for a moment these floors completely filled with people wanting to witness history. now, in just about an hour we'll

hear reaction from the hearing from congresswoman jackie speier and also why she says there is a possibility a vote may not happen tomorrow. more on that in just about an hour. live in washington, i'm dion lim, abc 7 news. >> thank you for that, dion. professor hadara avaram is here with us today. first, can you just give us your general takeaway from what you witnessed today. >> i think it's been a massive day. there have been two things going on at once. one of them is this big morality playing out. in a sense a climax of the me too movement out there for the whole american public to see. at the same time, i think a really grim reminder of how partisan judicial nominations have become since the days before the robert bork failed nomination and today when we're really seeing so much cheap shots, grandstanding, resistance to finding out the truth on top of the question of what actually happened. >> there were really several different dramas playing

themselves out. part of it is a look at american politics in 2018, which is not pretty. we showed a clip of one of the more fiery exchanges with senator dick durbin going after kavanaugh and saying if you really wanting t the truth, why wouldn't you tell all of your republican friends that you want to see the fbi involved. let's listen to the clip and let me get your reaction. >> i welcome whatever the committee wants to do because i'm telling the truth. >> i want to know what you want to do. >> i'm telling the truth. >> i want to know what you want to do, judge. >> i'm innocent. >> he clearly -- well, i don't want to speak for judge kavanaugh, but clearly the republican party wants to move this along. what's your reaction to that exchange? >> so sort of on the playing level of things, if you think you're innocent and the accusations who are completely false, the people who are accusing you have a lot to lose for there's nothing magical about

tomorrow, the same vote can take place on wednesday. there's nothing that requires the vote to happen on friday. so this is anship. when you look back at '60s, '70s, '80s, it hasn't always been this way. it's a relatively new phenomenon. even when nixon became president and had a chance to appoint four conservative justices, some of whom were very conservative, they were appointed with basically almost unanimous votes, including lots of votes from democratic senators. it's only when -- and there seemed to be this vibe that if the president is putting somebody forward, it's their prerogative to put up anybody that they feel is right so long as it's not somebody who's a crazy ideologue off the charts with unacceptable opinions. and i think that the democratic senators had a chance to watch what happened in the '70s when the court dismantled a lot of the civil rights protection the warr1987 they refused

to confirm robert bork, whom they considered beyond the pale on the right side, and then what we saw with anita hill an clarence thomas, which was clearly very, very strongly partisan. finally in 2016 we end up with mitch mcconnell very openly and shamelessly saying what am i doing is a political strategy because i don't want obama to appoint a president without a pretense that there's something wrong with merrick garland. >> he never even got to a hearing. >> he never even got to a hearing and there was never any question about his personal cad see. it was a personal ploy. next to this issue, did he or didn't he factual issue, we are seeing the same strategic play. if you're refusing an investigation, that means you are moving strategically to advance the candidate on one side. >> professor, rachel mitchell, who was the prosecutor who was doing the majority of the interviewing at one point asked a lot of questions about flying,

because it has been noted that blasey ford wouldn't come for an interview because she is afraid of flying. let's listen for a moment. >> you list the following interests of surf travel and you in parentheses put hawaii, costa rica, south pacific islands and french polynesia. have you been all to those places? >> correct. >> by airplane? >> yes. >> so you talk about you either did it or didn't do it so was this an effort to get at her credibility. >> i think we have to keep in mind that rachel mitchell had a very, very interesting job today an i'm not sure that both the people who hired her, the people on whose behest she was speaking and her were exactly clear about what her function was at the hearing. > i thoughthe hadibte joctuallh fairly good job, in many ways better for the american public than what the people who hired herually asked the questions with a certain degree of -- fair degree of empathy.

you know, a quiet sense of humor, matter of factualliness. but what she's trying to do here is probe into somebody who claims she was deeply traumatized by an incident of sexual assault and make sure this is indeed what's going on. we also don't know how the questions were originally phrased by the republican senators who remained silent and to what extent we're seeing them being softened and more reasonable by miss mitchell who is asking the questions. >> and rachel mitchell at the end took a moment to say, by the way, you all realize that this format with five minutes on and five minutes off is not the way to conduct this type of investigation so she got her own opinion out there. let's get back to kavanaugh for a second because he was extremely emotional, furious at times, fighting back tears at oo at judges in this position, does this signify anything about his judicial temperament? >> it's a good question. before my academic job, i was a defense attorney. i actually handled quite a few prosecutions of fairly high

ranked military officers in similar cases, in sex cases. what i saw was someone who's deeply aggrieved. the physical posture, the body language, the way that the person talks, the choked tears is a lot of things i used to see from my clients when we dealt with these cases. lots of people who can display very calm demeanor when they're dealing with problems of others can't be that calm with deal with problems of themselves. his whole life is coming unraveled. it's very hard to walk from a situation like this with integrity. i was thinking this morning about the art of war and you can never surround an arm from all sides. i think we're seeing here kavanaugh surrounded without any route of honorable escape. withdrawing now might imply that he's accepting the charges. >> any guess on what happens next? >> i don't know. there's a couple of ways this could play out. they could go fit a vote tomorrow of course, in which case if he is denied he get to walk away claiming his

innocence to his base and claiming the system is rigged and the like. he could be pressured by more reasonable republicans to withdraw, which again gives him an opening claim sort of i'm innocent and just been forced o. or, or reasonable voices in the republican side are going to prevail and we are going to see a delay for a few days because a lot happened today. i think everybody there needs some time to digest it. >> professor, thank you so much for coming in and giving us a little insight. >> appreciate your time. all right, we are learning more today about that dangerous crack in a beam in the transbay terminal. what officials are saying today and the growing frustration for commuters. up next, the complaint filed against elon musk and how it could prevent him from being a ceo again. i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. temperatures will tumble across

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new developments today for elon musk after he tweeted last month he had secured funding to take his company, tesla, private at $420 a share. u.s. securities regulators filed a complaint that says those statements were false and misleading. if found guilty, musk faces punishments, including an injunction for making similar statements in the future and -- >> civil penalties, and a bar prohibiting musk from serving as an officer or director of a public company in the future. >> investigators say they think musk arrived at the 420 price by assuming a 20% premium on the share price at the time and then rounding up to 420 because of the significance of that number in marijuana culture.

elon musk released a statement calling the s.e.c.'s action unjustified. it also said in part integrity is the most important value in my life and the facts will show i never compromise this in any way. there are also new developments on the salesforce transit center saga. preparations are under way for temporary repairs to relieve the load on two cracked steel beams. >> melanie woodrow is joining us live with the latest in san francisco. >> reporter: we're not any closer today to knowing what caused these cracks, but we are closer to a solution. workers preparing a salesforce transit center for the installation of a shoring system that will alleviate the load on two cracked steel beams above fremont street. the transbay joint powers authority releasing a new photo today of the second smaller crack. to prepare for the shoring, crews removing ceiling panels, moving light fixtures and reloc of muni's overhead electric bus

contact system. >> the current plan is to put the shoring system near the middle of fremont street so we can allow traffic on both sides of fremont street. >> reporter: the executive director says the shoring system will be different sized steel beams and columns from the bridge all the way down to street level. with fremont street currently closed, traffic testing commuters' patience. >> when i got off 80 on 7th street, it took me 45 minutes just to get like, what, half a mile from there to here. >> reporter: crews also testing other steel beams today. tjpa says there are no additional fissures or cracks. >> it's unfortunate but i'm sure once they fix it, it won't have any problems in the future. >> bus service is being provided out of the nearby transbay terminal. the first step is to get fremont street reopened. the second to resume bus operations and the third to find

a permanent fix. live in san francisco, melanie woodrow.

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today felt like a perfect fall day outside. >> let's take a look at live doppler 7. those temperatures that started falling today will continue to drop tomorrow. live doppler 7 showing you a combination of high clouds up above and fog down below. take a look at those temperatures. we still have heat inland in the low 90s. along the coastline it's in the 50s so pretty cool. there's a reason from our golden gate bridge camera. we have fog around. sprinkles or a light shower between saturday and sunday morning can't be ruled out and there is a chance of showers still early next week. we see high clouds going into

tomorrow morning's commute. between 5:00 and 8:00 a.m. you will have a combination of both and as we head into the evening hours, fog will once again march back in going into saturday. now, saturday gets cloudier and look what shows up saturday afternoon, a few specks of green indicating sprinkles in the north bay lingering into sunday. tomorrow morning there will be fog around. mid-40s to the mid-50s so it's definitely going to be a cool start. then for the afternoon, cooler. the most noticeable cooling will be inland where we've seen some highs so far in the mid-90s. you'll be in the low 80s. 80 in livermore, 76 in san jose, 69 in oakland, 77 santa rosa, 64 in san francisco and 61 in half moon bay. you can always download the accuweather app and track those temperatures anyccuweather seve notice blow cooler bay and inland. sprinkles are possible in the north bay on saturday and just about anybody could see a few

sprinkles sunday morning. then our chances of showers with the second system coming in between monday and tuesday, but look at how much cooler it is. low 60s to the upper 70s. if you're near the coast, you're already cool, but the bay and inland is really going to be noticeable. >> all right, thanks, sandhya. all right. emotions running high today on capitol hill. >> i believed he was going to rape me. >> i am innocent of this charge. >> this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. >> today's testimony and the accusations against supreme court nominee brett

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beginning the process she says she never wanted. >> i am here today not because i want to be, i am terrified. i am here because i believe it is my civic duty. detailing to senate judiciary committee and america the alleged sex assault she experienced as a 15-year-old girl in the early 1980s at the hands of who she says was brett kavanaugh and his prep school classmate. >> what is the strongest memory you have? >> the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense. >> reporter: after her opening remarks, each senator getting five minutes to ask questions. all of the republican senators deferring their time to veteran arizona sex crimes prosecutor, rachel mitchell. >> has anyone come forward to say to you, hey, remember, i was the one that drove you home? >> no. >> dr. ford, with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%.

>> reporter: kavanaugh has strongly denied all allegations. >> i'm here today to tell the truth. i've never sexually assaulted anyone, not in high school, not in college, not ever. >> reporter: kavanaugh's emotion was obvious during his opening statement, and his wife seated just behind him clearly holding back tears. and remember, the committee is slated to vote on kavanaugh's confirmation tomorrow morning depending, of course, on what happened here today. california senator kamala harris greeted blasey ford after her testimony and thanked her during her five minutes for questioning. >> you know you are not on trial. you are not on trial. you are sitting here before members of the united states senate's judiciary committee because you had the courage to come forward because as you have said, you believe it was your civic duty.

>> in contrast, senator lindsey graham of south carolina got angry over what he called unfair treatment of kavanaugh. >> when you see sotomayor and kagan, tell them that lindsey said hello, because i voted for them. i would never do to them what you've done to this guy. this is the most unethical sham since i've been in politics. and if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. are you a gang rapist? >> no. >> i cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. boy, y'all want power. god, i hope you never get it. i hope the american people can see through this sham. >> students at universities around the country sat in their classrooms today watching the testimony closely. here's a picture of law students at hofstra university in new york watching the hearing on two tvs. a group of female students at

tufts university in massachusetts sat around a table listening to blasey ford. and professor christine farley of washington college of law tweeted this photo with the caption watching the hearing with my students this morning, remembering how i felt watching anita hill when i was in their shoes. >> also watching today, president trump. he tweeted his reaction about 45 minutes ago as he watched the testimony and then wrote judge kavanaugh showed america exactly why i nominated him. his testimony was powerful, honest and riveting. democrats search and destroy strategy is disgraceful and this process has been a total sham and effort to delay, obstruct and resist. the senate must vote. >> throughout her testimony, dr. blasey ford made multiple references to the community of palo alto where she has lived and worked for many years. today her supporters gathered at city hall plaza to show their support. >> abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen joining us now with more. chris. >> reporter: it was an emotional day for those who came out here

to city hall. nearly 150 people, most of them palo alto residents, all making it clear that they stand behind dr. blasey ford. a typically quiet plaza today was transformed into an area where these residents could amplify their voices. >> we're here for christine! >> reporter: a rally organized by a group of palo alto mothers who wanted to ensure that dr. christine blasey ford wasn't alone as she told her story before an international audience. >> my family and i were forced to move out of our home. since september 16th, my family and i have been visiting in various secure locales, at times separated and at times together with the help of security ar rorte d by rdouge >> peopl all over the neighborhood saying what does she need? does she need meals? does she need groceries? does she need help with the kids, the dog, mowing her lawn, what does she need? we're a small, close group and we just want to help her.

>> reporter: mayor liz nees thanking those who came out to show their support of dr. blasey ford. >> when you're supporting christine, what you're really supporting is women and women's rights and the woman's right to not be sexually assaulted. >> reporter: visitors stopping by to write letters to the professor, a chance to connect to the woman who many are calling a local hero. this mother showing her solidarity. >> i want my girls to be in a generation where they can say not me. and i want my son to understand what that means. i want them to all understand what that means. >> reporter: community members have set up a go fund me account to help the family. you can find it on abc7news.com. we've put a link there. reporting live in palo alto, i'm chris nguyen, abc 7 news. activists also protested against judge kavanaugh's confirmation in san francisco. abc 7 news was in the financiale

held a noon rally, one of several across the u.s. the group also protested against president trump's administration. >> there's support on both sides of today's hearing. >> amy hollyfield was as ksfo where the conservative brian sussman show got reaction from listeners. >> let's dive in and take a listen. >> reporter: brian sus man and katie green took a few phone calls and found that members of their audience had questions about specific parts of the testimony and the credibility of christine blasey ford. >> and she's already had to change her statement several times, which i find very interesting. in her little upspeak valley girl voice. >> there were some moments where things had to be altered, you're correct. >> she is a lousy actress. she's too -- she's trying really hard to be, oh, feel sorry for me. >> reporter: dee from new mexico

said she was also attacked in a similar way around the same time frame, also at a party. >> i ran to my friend. i ran to my female friend, that was the first thing that i did. why didn't she run to her friend, the only female at this party supposedly or whatever this was. that's my first thought. >> reporter: blasey ford testified that she later saw mark judge at the grocery store. she testified that judge had been there when she was attacked. >> i said hello to him. and his face was white and very uncomfortable saying hello back. >> reporter: lynn from hayward, a domestic violence victim, questions this reaction. >> you don't look at them. you don't want them to see you because that memory comes up again. and i find it really hard that she could go in and say hi, as if nothing happened, if this really happened to her. >> reporter: the producers said they did have an uptick in calls

compared to other mornings, indicating that a lot of people have a lot of opinions about this hearing. in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. still to come, we'll

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at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. it helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. yeah! entrust your heart to entresto. ♪ the beat goes on. democratic political strategist christine pelosi is today'te christine, thank you for coming in. what were your thoughts? >> as someone who practiced law in the district attorney's office sex assault unit, i was

very, very impressed by professor ford. she was very credible. she told a very, very painful truth and she spoke it in a detailed way that really laid out the facts and laid out the case for why she was coming forward. so i felt great empathy towards her. i thought that the american people saw a woman who came forward to perform a civic duty, who didn't really want to be there, but once she was there felt she had to tell the truth and be honest and straightforward and i think she was. >> so you think people found her credible? >> absolutely, i think everybody found her credible, which is why the riepublicans had to change their tactic when judge kavanaugh spoke and say we believe it happened by someone, just not by him and they made it an attack on the process, not the victim, because they saw how badly it had gone with their, quote unquote, female assistant as mitch mcconnell called her,

trying to poke holes in the story. the story didn't have any holes to it. the story was real. i believe she was sexually assaulted. if you believe her, it was brett kavanaugh. so we can really only believe one of them. >> the obvious thing here would be to call for where is mark judge or was there anybody else to find the other 30-odd people at this party so you can get more information, otherwise it's hard to know what to believe at this point. the larger significance of this in the context of the me too movement, do you think that this helps or hurts? because if i was in that situation and i was her, this is a rough spot to be in. >> it absolutely is. and as general counsel for the nonprofit that was started by the me politics movement with our letter 11 months ago, i can say i've heard from victims for days. of course today, like my phone was constantly just blowing up. i had to turn my notifications off, but i wanted to be there

for people. at the same time, we were all watching together and reflecting together on what thisme meant. this was very, very painful. millions of americans have these secrets. because these are secrets and very few people come forward and talk about sexual assault, we don't have a public dialogue around it. we've got television shows and movies that are mostly about criminal cases, but we don't really have a dialogue about it. it's like when we first started talking about alcoholism or other health or mental illness issues. people were almost angry at the person for talking about it. but we've gotten better on those other issues and we have to get better talking about this. my fear as i expressed to senator feinstein last week in thanking her for keeping miss ford's secret was that if we make it too ugly for people and they find themselves being political footballs, we will be driving them back into the shadows rather than into the light. >> i'm not sure what we saw

today for almost nine hours helps that cause ifha what we're talking out. . le mump ha a clip t ian tnd it' kavanaugh. he was really kind in his references to blasey ford. i think both of them were just in an uncomfortable position here. let's listen to the judge. >> i intend no ill will to dr. ford and her family. the other night ashley and my daughter, liza, said their prayers and little liza, all of 10 years old -- >> i mean he, whether you believe him or don't believe him, he was extremely emotional today. >> had she been that emotional, had a female nominee for the supreme court been yelling, belligerent, cutting off senators, responding back rudely to them, they would have been automatically disqualified so i don't think that his belligerent attitude went over well.

i think it actually went to prove that he could be, if he was belligerent in talking about alcohol, he could have been a belligerent drunk who dragged somebody on a bed and tried to attack her and put his hand on her mouth. in fact he was so rude to senator amy klobuchar when he came back from the break, he had to apologize to her. when she had said as the child of an alcoholic, i understand what alcoholism can do. she prefaced that with a very respectful question and he turned it back and asked her if she had a drinking problem. it was so beyond the pale. so i think the judge deciding to yell and lose his temper at a time when we are assessing his temperament did two things. first of all, it undercut his case that he could sit on the bench in ten days and listen to a sexual assault case with any degree of fairness, number one. which is what he's asking us for. that's the job promotion he's

seeking. number two, the theory of the case is he was drunk, he was so drunk that he often may have forgotten what he was doing and therefore why don't we bring in mark judge. why don't you have the fbi bring in the person. it's a very different thing for me, and i was the chief of staff for four years on capitol hill. i called witnesses all the time. there's a difference between me phoning up a witness and an fbi agent sitting down and carefully interviewing a witness under penalty of perjury. remember, martha stewart went to prison for lying to the fbi. mark judge knows there's a much stronger penalty about lying to the fbi than omitting something from a committee staffer. that's why they need an independent fbi investigation. >> well, we'll see if that's where it goes from here. we have to leave it right here but thank you, christine pelosi, for coming in. take a look at live doppler 7 right now. we have high clouds that are filtering the sun. the fog is pretty much locked in at the coastline. tomorrow afternoon we'll keep the clouds around the coast. the rest of you looking at mainly sunny skies.

much cooler inland. places in the low to mid-90s will be in the low 80s. antioch, livermore, 80 degrees. 64 in san francisco, 61 in half moon bay. right around the bay in the 70s like santa rosa, fremont, 76 in san jose. i want to turn your attention to hurricane rosa off the mexico coast. it's a category 3 hurricane now. it has intensified but it will weaken eventually, first becoming a category 4 and then weakening as it starts to make its turn towards cabo. not going to reach cabo necessarily but sending some swells up to cabo san lucas, southern california, and it may link up with a system bringing us showers early next week. the accuweather seven-day forecast, noticeably cooler tomorrow. maybe some sprinkles saturday in the north bay and a lingering chance sunday morning before we see better chances of wet weather monday and tuesday and then warm back up mid-week. >> thanks, sandhya. do you love bloody marys? how you can have a spicy weekend, up next.

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cuts. the shades have manufacturing codes on the socket base, so check it out closely and look for the numbers 1,625 to 1,744. these things were sold from august 2016 to just this past july. now, if you have one of these shades, take it back to the store for a refund or a replacement. travelers may get some relief from shrinking airline seats after a vote by congress. the house approved a bill that would require the faa to set a minimum size for airline seats. a proposal to crack down on airline fees was not included in the bill. it now heads to the senate where a sunday vote deadline looms. we may or may not get this one, we'll see. >> they do have a called sardin >>in. thanks, michael. the inaugural event and a new type of pro beach volleyball tour is under way in san jose. it's

it'self and wellness created by olympic gold medalist kerri walsh jennings. walsh says 1440 stands for the number of minutes in a day and the event is to highlight the need to be in the moment every day. >> there's so much sport greatness here and there's so much heart and soul to us. we have the qualifier going on and some local girls and stanford girls that are going play this weekend. we want to service the community, service the volleyball community and have a lot of fun doing it. >> that event is being held next to avia stadium. it's the first of four tournaments between now and december. if you can't make it down to check it out, you can watch the semifinals and the finals sunday right here on abc 7. a wild turtle with a broken shell is mobile again thanks to a wheelchair made of legos. veterinarians at a maryland zoo performed surgery on the grapefruit-sized eastern box turtle found with fractures to the other side of his shell. to help the turtle heal the vets

reached out for a lego enthusiast to construct a wheelchair that would help keep its shell off the ground and allow its legs to move. vets expect the turtle to use the wheelchair into the spring. >> that's pretty cool. good for the turtle. just ahead, some spicy ideas to heat up your weekend. new at 5:00, it's not often lawyers offer to help for free. what's behind an unusual gathering in the bay area. plus -- >> to watch and really see her on trial. >> there's a part of me that still wants to believe that we can actually do justice. >> learning in realtime. how

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at 8:00 the two-hour season premiere of "grey's anatomy" followed at 10:00 by "how to the away with murder." and the news is at 11:00. alexa smith from abc 7 mornings has ideas for your weekend. >> whether you like your weekend spicy, mild or somewhere in between, we've got some ideas for everyone thanks to our partners at hoodline. calling our bloody mary aficionados. the fifth annual bloody mary festival is saturday at the so mania arts cultural center in san francisco. a celebration brings together the most innovative and crafty bloody mary mixes in the city. you can taste them all and vote for your favorite in the people's choice award. a panel of judges will also name the best bloody mary in san

francisco. the festival runs from 10:30 to 6:00 and tickets start at $45. grab the leather and head to a true san francisco fair. this is the largest leather fair in the world. exhibiters, a live stage and plenty of dance music will fill from 8th to 13th and so mania. entry is free but donations are encouraged. for something completely different the san francisco museum of modern art offers free family fun day this sunday. enjoy art-making experiences and the grammy nominated family friendly hip-hop group, alphabet rockers. it is free for visitors 18 and younger but on free family day it's free for up t adults accompanying each visitor 18 and younger. from all of us and our partners at hoodline, we hope you have a great weekend. >> all right, thank you for

joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. >> abc 7 news at 5:00 starts right now. >> with what degree of certainty do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> dr. christine blasey ford sharing her story as judge kavanaugh defends himself. >> this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit. >> an extraordinary day on capitol hill that ended late today. >> troubled by the excuse offered by this was a high school incident and boys will be boys. >> a lot of people troubled by that phrase, and it's reigniting a conversation about consent in the bay area. >> to watch and really see her on trial. >> there's a part ofnfirmari ha law students learning in realtime. >> i am here today not because i want to be, i am terrified.

i am here because i believe it is my civic duty. >> dr. christine blasey ford sworn in before speaking in public for the first time. the bay area university professor told the senate that president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh, sexually assaulted her 36 years ago. >> i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from yelling. this is what terrified me the most and has had the most lasting impact on my life. it was hard for me to breathe, and i thought that brett was accidentally going to kill me. >> so what you are telling us is this could not be a case of mistaken identity? >> absolutely not. my greatest fears have been realized, and the reality has been far worse than what i