a warning issued to parents after two teens die in just as many days from suspected opioid overdoses. thanks for joining us. i'm kristein sze. two teenagers dead in two days in livermore. parents are grieving and wanting answers. abc 7 news reporter amy hollyfield is live at livermore high school with more on the suspected opioid use. >> reporter: i just spoke with an official with the school district and she told me police haven't even told them who died, but they are aware that some of the kids know, and they are grieving, so they have mobilized their crisis response team. they have also reached out to parents and given them a guide on how to help grieving

children. one student at livermore high school said the news hit her hard yesterday when she was told a fellow student had died of a possible opioid overdose. >> one of her best friends told me, and i like flat out broke down and cried for like half an hour, like sitting in office, just crying and crying and crying. >> i was horrified because you don't -- you don't see it every day. you don't realize what's happening in your town. >> parents were also shocked to hear the news and were suddenly filled with worry. >> those poor parents. can you do everything right, everything, and -- and it can all go wrong. >> reporter: livermore police announced the deaths on social media. two teenagers dead in two days. they aren't releasing their identities, but the creator of the comic strip dilbert says he believes one of the victims they are talking about is his step-son who was found dead in his bedroom on sunday. >> the coroner's found a fentanyl patch on his arm. if you don't know what fentanyl

patch is, i didn't either. >> reporter: adams need to talk to their kids. >> you never know what's going to happen, you know, afterwards, even if you do it once. >> reporter: while parents fret, kids are dealing with the loss. >> he was a beautiful, beautiful person, not just on the outside but like on the inside, super caring and super thoughtful and like if anyone had a bad day, she would drop everything just to make sure they are okay. >> reporter: police say the toxicology reports could take a couple of weeks, but even though they haven't confirmed the cause of death, they said this was just too urgent of a message to wait on. two teenagers dead in two days. they decided to go public right now. live in livermore, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> thank you. another big story, showers and thunderstorms are possible in our forecast today, though it

looks kind of dry right another. here's the latest. >> possible is the key word. take a look. hi, everybody. a few light showers roaming through the north bay, and we have another batch moving across the santa cruz mountains and up the peninsula. notice what you don't see, yellows, orpgs and red so they are very, very light so they are moving from southeast to northwest, and you can see the bottom corner of your screen there, that's a thunderstorm. that's moving from fresno to merced, and that's all rotating our way. the future radar and what you should expect. showers will develop, but we'll have sunshine from time to time. that will give the air its warmth and buoyancy to create the possibility of some thunderstorms, and within those thunderstorms we could have some heavy downpours. they will be brief and they will be very localized and if they do hit your area you'll wish you had an umbrella. now, these are going to taper after the sun sets at about 7:00, but we're not out of the woods yet. there's still a few more showers in my accuweather seven-day forecast and i'll map that out for you coming up. here's kristen with more news. >> mike, thank you. with possibly hours left for the

fbi to investigate sexual assault claims made against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, president trump went on the attack attacking one of his political accusers, testimony who a week ago said was very compelling. abc's lana zach has been covering it in washington. >> i don't know, i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: at a campaign rally in miss mix president trump supporters laughed and applauded as the president mocked dr. christine blasey ford, the person who says judge brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while drunk at a high school party decades ago. >> upstairs, downstairs, where it was? i don't know. but hi one beer. that's the only thing i remember. >> reporter: those remarks not sitting well with one crucial republican senator. >> to discuss something this sensitive at a political rally is just -- just not right. it's kind of appalling. >> reporter: but senator flake on the "today" show hint that had kavanaugh who vehemently denies the allegations may still have his support. >> even if no votes are changed in the end, to have a pause here

and to actually have an fbi investigation gives us all more confidence in the process. >> reporter: dr. questioning t investigation saying the fbi has not called her and the white house is striking back. >> he's just discrepancies. >> reporter: he's already acknowledged under age that he drank under age and his testimony implied otherwise. >> the drink age was in 18 for maryland most of my time in high school and in d.c. for all of my time. >> reporter: trump jr. denied his father was mocking ford and said is it any wonder that she was terrified to come forward?

>> also today, senator lindsey graham got booed after he said supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh was mistreated during last week's senate judiciary committee hearing. >> i'm the first person to say i want to hear from dr. ford. i thought she was handled respectfully. i thought kavanaugh was treated like crap. [ boo ] >> well, boo yourself. >> reporter: graham made that comment this morning at the atlantic festival in washington, d.c. he was, of course, among the most vocal senators in support of judge kavanaugh during last week's hearing. workers at san francisco's marriott hotels are preparing to back up their demands for better pay and safer working conditions. local 2 union members have been negotiating with marriott, the city's biggest hotel employer for months. some 2,500 workers are still without a contract. last month marriott workers voted almost unanimously to authorize a strike at seven downtown hotels, so a strike could be called at any time. >> our members are determined.

they are resolute in our demands. should be enough. that should not be taken lightly, and we're ready to back that up with real action. >> the marriott workers including housekeepers, cooks, bartenders, servers and bellmen and negotiations will ultimately impact some 8,000 workers at 50 san francisco hotels. no comment from marriott this morning. now to santa cruz where neighbors recently noticed something unusual. a military plane flying low and loud. so we looked into what that flight was all about. abc 7 news has this live report from santa cruz. amanda? >> reporter: surprisingly, the neighbors said the first thought was not fleet week. instead, the low-flying plane had people fathering the worst. 911 operators have received several calls on the aircraft. >> oh, god there. it is. > reporter: video captured tuesday by an abc 7 news

photojournalist shows a c-17 military aircraft flying over santa cruz homes. >> wow. >> reporter: neighbors describe the out of the ordinary sight. >> it was a giant airplane very low right over my house. >> reporter: heather babcock was in her office when the c-17 flew overhead seemingly heading for open water. >> i ran out the door of my office, looked up and saw what i thought was a commercial airliner like right over my house, really loud and heading into a downward trajectory as far as my layman eye thought that it was going towards the ocean. >> reporter: with fleet week san francisco just a short drive away, abc 7 news reached out to the air show network. officials there say c-17s don't fly among show's blue angels, military jets or performance aircraft. net com santa cruz says its

office received calls about the low-flying aircraft but directed callers to the federal aviation administration. neighbors say they are relieve the aircraft wasn't part of a major catastrophe. >> oh, my god, what was that? >> i'm waiting to hear like, you know, fire engines or hear like a plane crash. that's really what i thought was happening. >> reporter: now the faa tells me they would not be able to confirm information on the aircraft without a labor-intensive radar replay. instead they have directed me to the military. in santa cruz, abc 7 news. >> amanda, thank you. new at 11:00, pharmaceutical giant bayer is cutting 227 jobs in berkly. the company just confirmed the cut moments ago to abc 7 news. according to the san francisco business times, which first reported it, the cuts are on top of the 200 jobs eliminated already this year. also according to the business times, the cuts come as the company gets ready for a new drug-making plant in germany.

berkeley is the only biotech manufacturing site in america that's unionized. in less than ten minutes you'll get an alert on your cell phone, and it will be a new test of a wireless emergency alert system in case of a nuclear attack or terrorist attack in several cities. the alert will be sent at 11:18 this morning. officials expect the alert to reach 75% of wireless-enabled devices. you cannot opt out. it's being called a presidential level alert but emergency messages are pre-written and approved in advance by various government agencies. packages sent to the pentagon that authorities thought contained ricin is not what it seemed. a new development in the investigation and what was really in those packages. and did the president get caught up in a lie? new allegations on how he made hundreds of millions of dollars.

the new york state tax department is reviewing fraud allegations involving the trump family brought forth by the "new york times." the woman shell report says mr. trump received at least $413 million from his father over the decades. much of that through dubious tax

dodges, including outright fraud. the story contradicts trump's portrayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who started with just $1 million in a loan from his father. both the white house and president'sawefutg that story. officials say now the suspicious material found at the pentagon on monday was not ricin but the substance from which the poison is derived. the pentagon's chief spokeswoman says the substance found in two envelopes in a mail screening facility were castor beeps. one envelope was addressed to defense secretary james mattis and the other to admiral john richardson, the chief of the u.s. navy. no one was injured. the centers for disease control says if castor seeds are swallowed, the ricin released can cause injury. just ahead, the reason honda and general motors just announced they are teaming up, and could toys are r us be making a comeback in the include related to a possible comeback. >> the area with the best chance of a thunderstorm. the area in sea foam game which

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by living off the grid. completely. or... just set the washing machine to cold. do your thing. with energy upgrade california. within a minute you'll get an alert on your cell phone, the first ever nationwide emergency alert system in case of national threats like a nuclear or terrorist athreat. the alert will be sent at 11:18 coming up and shortly afterwards there's an alert that will only be a test. mike? >> let's start with our storm impact scale, a 1 for scattered

showers. chance of thunderstorms and lightning and basketweave downpours after that. take a look at what happened this morning. sunshine breaking through a hole in the clouds. i thought it was kind of pretty, if not beautiful or heavenly, if if you will, and thought i'd share that with you. what's going on right now? pretty cloudy out there, and that's keeping the threat down right now because it's not allowing the ground to warm and that makes the air warm and the ability for showers to develop. we'll keep the scattered showers in the forecast. the chance of some drizzle is tomorrow morning to an isolated shower tomorrow afternoon and continues and then the dryer air comes in for friday and sunday. sunshine and warmer temperatures and a look at the low pressure. it was backing away from us and now it's starting to make a bee-line to the east and will go to the big sur coast and l.a. basep. down in the central parts of the valley, thunderstorms will be roaming up our way. the best chance of thunderstorms will be in the central valley, but we'll get a slight chance and less go through the future

radars. you can seat clock up here on the right. now through 4:00, the greens become yellows an oranges and that's heavier downpours that come in with the thunderstorm chance and that lingers through 7:00 with the best chance being in the south bay and east bay. that's the best chance. doesn't mean they could pop anywhere else. overnight an isolated shower, no yellow oron, and out tomorrow there's some sprinkles, a little drizzle in the morning. you can see a little bit of green try to develop as the cold front moves through the south bay tomorrow and during the afternoon hours and then as we head towards the evening hours that's when the rush of really the driest of the air throws through. those are whites and lows in the 40s and 50s will come back. that won't be the case again tomorrow. let's talk about "today." mid to upper 60s along the coast and low to mid-70s along the bay and mid to upper 70s inland. they will still be sticking. not quite as warm as it was yesterday afternoon. in fact, here's the way it breaks down as we look from emoryville. temperatures in the 60s at the

coast until midnight and we'll be in the low to mid-730s elsewhere and look at the low temperatures tomorrow. upper 50s to mid-60s once again. here's my accuweather seven-day forecast. a little bit cooler tomorrow, and then look at friday, saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday, more of that fall warmth that we're used to as the air dries out and the sun comes back out, so we'll have temperatures in the 40s and 50s in the morning and 80s and 80s in the afternoon. >> thanks, mike. >> we're getting a slightly better time line now when it comes to closures at the salesforce transit center and the two cracked support beams. the stretch of fremont street that stretches beyond the transit hub is expected to reopen to traffic by the end of next week. engineers are testing out the cracks and they say finding out a cause could take until the end of the month. transit centers won't give an opening date until the cause is concerned. the park may open before the terminal. new details on the facebook hack that affected 90 million accounts.

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that's wraps up fema's first aemergency alert test. first was the text alert on your phone and then the eas testing, and now we'll move on with the news. news this morning, general motors and honda are working together to speed up their deployment of self-driving cars. honda motors will invest $2.75 billion in the autonomous

vehicle units run by general motors. called gm cruise. their goal is to develop an autonomous vehicle for global deployment. it will invest $750 million right away and spend their 2 billion more on the project. it looks like some investors are ready to stick their necks out for geoffrey the giraffe. a group plans to work with investment partners to work for new ideas for possible toys "r" us stores in the u.s. and abroad. the group planned a bankruptcy auction and cancelled it when they didn't get any bids better than its own? it would allow the relaunch of the toys "r" us and babies "r" us brand and it will come a few months after the retail giant

paulissen up giants fans. listen to fans who attend night home games earlier. games will start at 6:45 instead of 7:15 monday through thursday. night games on the weekend will keep a later start time. the a's will make major league history in today's wild card game in major leaguery tarting pitcher will not be starting the game. instead, reliever liam hendriks will be taking the mound. relievers typically come in after the starter gets pulled and the new tactic called

bullpening became a trend in baseball this season and the treehouse at the oakland coliseum will open a watch party for fans. explain to me why bullpening could be helpful in this case. >> because the a's have the strongest bullpen in all the major leagues, have are the best pitchers for middle relief and short relief for the end of the game. pitch them a couple of innings and bring in the starter after that. >> and the bat verse not seen these guys and keep going. >> go a's. from all of us here at abc 7 news, thanks so much for joining us. who wants to be a million air is coming up next. we leave you with a live

>> our returning contestant, tom colocci's from london, england. he's about to take a look at a $100,000 question. he doesn't have any lifelines left. he's just four questions away from $1 million. so let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic music] ♪ [cheers and applause] hey, everybody. welcome to "millionaire." you ready to go today? it's very rare that we start a show like this. we're starting this show four questions away from $1 million. >> fast forwarding to the good bit. >> exactly. let's get right to the good stuff. tom colocci's here out of london, england. interrupted yesterday. we had to stop the show because, well, you were too hot. you were at $50,000. that's where we ended it, that threshold, and we begin