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welcome. we are still putting water on it. >> a huge ball of fire is out. it isn't stopping firefighters. they are still putting water on this building because of spo for most of the day. they say this construction site went up so quickly. the stacks of two by fours serves as kindling. the fire got so big so quickly. >> firefighters said this enormous five alarm fire took 90 members almost an hour and a half to knock down. they first got the call at 2:00 this morning. the fire stunned west oakland residents who woke up and saw it lighting up tonight. >> we are standing here and we

can see the flames passing the building. it was pure fire. it was like raining fire. >> the flying embers from the fire at west grand ended up starting three other fires three blocks away. >> i was closing my winds. i ran out and woke up the neighbors. i guess this fire i don't know when. it's crazy. >> firefighters got those fires out before they could do too much damage but they created a scare. you can loose everything in the blink of an eye. >> juggling everything here they got the call of

>> we drove by later in the morning to find it was also a residential building urnds construction. >> it was no visible damage. >> we are on heightened alert it is whether or not the two are related. >> it is the company building the town homes on west grand street. they say they will keep working on the area uneffected by the fire and promise to rebuild the fire and the section that was damaged. >> it has 124 homes in it. with 50 of those >> you can see firefighters and police officers in the middle of the street. it will be shut down for most of the day. they plan to check out footage from the surveillance cameras that this construction site did have on scene. they also had a security guard

who said he was in another area away from the fire and says he did not see a thing. one firefighter was injured. he was taken to the hospital with an injury to his leg. no other injuries were reported. abc 7 news. >> thank you. oakland mayor had strong words this morning. she says arsonists have been trying to burn down housing developments in the city. >> an attack on new housing in oakland is an attack on keeping families housed in oakland. we are in a housing crisis. we need to build housing as quickly and effectively as possible but the bigger offense is the absolute risk of loss of life. >> the mayor also praised firefighters rapid response. she is urging anyone to call 911 if they see suspicious activity. we want to give you an idea of what it looked like before

this morning's fire. this was from google earth. it was captured in april of this year. it was six months ago. a lot more construction since then. even then you can see the three story building under construction with the wood framing. you heard amy talk about how that wood just served as kindling and helped fuel this morning's fire. residential construction fires have become a trend unfortunately. it is footage from a previous one. it is one of five firefighters. if you had the two construction sites it makes it 8 or 7 i should say. a few months ago a coalition of builders put up $300,000 to help catch anyone responsible for burning down projects. no word yet on the cause of the fires overnight. let's take one more look from sky 7 as firefighters continue to put water on the remnants and try to get the hot spots. this is showing you at west

grand avenue. it is really taking up that whole half a block at least. stay with abc 7 news for continuing covtoday's fire. be sure to enable push alerts to get breaking news updates as they happen. one woman is dead and a man has been seriously injured in a house fire this morning. it broke out in the sunset near irving street just after 3:30. no word what caused this fire. the male victim was transported to a local burn center in serious condition. an investigation is underway to find what sparked the massive fire at a high-rise. new video shows the debris left behind at washington and davis. flames gutted five forsca washi there. r residents of 30 units have been displaced. nobody was hurt. new at 11:00 the district

attorney's office will not charge a police officer in oakland. the officer shot and killed a 28-year-old last january while responding to gunfire near the station. body cam video released by bart showing him responding to the shots and coming on two men struggling. he screams for them to show their hands and fires three shots. his family demanded the officer be fired and prosecuted. in a letter today retired supreme court justice revealed she has been diagnosed with beginning stages of dementia and probably alzheimer's disease. she wrote while the final ch chapter of my life might be trying nothing will add up to the countless blessings of my life. she was the first female supreme court justice. she left in 2006 to care for her husband who was battling

alzheimer's. she plans to continue living in phoenix with her family. new data shows more of you are voting early. more than 500,000 californians have already voted. it is about a hundred thousand more than in the 2014 midterm elections. a total of 12.5 million received mail-in ballots this year. some counties have moved to all mail ballots. there you go. if you want to learn more about what's on your ballot we have a full voter guide. all right. take a look at this figure. $1.6 billion. that's the jackpot in tonight's mega millions drawing. k atery fever running high. >> should have a lucky ticket here. >> $1,500 worth. >> millions are lining up for their second chance at a billion dollars payday.

>> i'm holding the lucky money right here. >> mega millions is at a frenzy. >> it is pretty crazy up here. some times you have to designate one employee for the lottery. >> record breaking $1.6 billion on the line. >> i will make more than what i spend. >> they know their chances. >> you would have to buy hundreds of thousands or millions before it gets down to something reasonable. >> they say they can't help but get caught up in lotto fever. >> probably more than likely get hit by lightning. >> substantial doubting betweta winning is this man. he gets to call out the six life changing numbers later tonight. >> i can't imagine how exciting it is for folks watching this drawing live. somebody's life is going to change. >> despite the mind boggling numbers if you want to avoid one

study's estimate about a third of lottery winners go bankrupt. if you win get team of professionals including an accountant and adviser. they say certain states have had more winners. if one with the most is right here in new york. so yeah, i'm feeling pretty lucky. abc news, new york. just remember, randomness does create patterns but they are not really meaningful. good luck anyway. >> the latest ghost stories open in san francisco. we spoke to some of the shoppers. another twist following a washington they've got news for grandma. >> wait. >> oh, my

now to new developments in the killing of journalist. saudi arabia seems to be changing its story on what happened. we have the latest twist. >> this morning the saudi's explanation of his death has changed again. it comes after cnn aired after what appears to be surveillance video it is described as one of the key suspects dressed in his

clothes even apparently a fake beard. they say the plan was to bring him to a safe house if he refuse today return to saudi arabia then use the body doubles to sneak out the real they later said he died in a choke hold. abc news learned hass kel traveled to turkey and met with the crown brins. they said it's too soon to discuss sanctions over his death. >> i am not satisfied with what i heard. >> the president's son-in-law says the administration is still look at the situation with eyes wide open. >> we'll determine woday we hea

turkish president for the first time speaking publicly on the record. he ran through all of turkey's and he said he has two big questions, who ordered this attack and where is the body? abc news, istanbul. thousands of central american imkbramigrants are sti determine today reach the u.s./mexico border even though they have no idea what awaiting them when they arrive. they trekked through kwa kwau before reaching mexico yesterday. president trump threaten today declare a national emergency and send troops if the caravan reaches the border. amazon ghost store opened today. it is a whole new concept in shopping. no cashiers. matt was there to see how it

works and what shoppers think. >> reporter: let me explain myself. this is not what it looks like. i'm not a thief. everything i'm doing is legal, what they want and walk out when they are done shopping. >> it is filled with ready to eat snacks, meals and groceries. it is in san francisco's financial district. >> we think good food fast really works well with high density neighborhoods where there's a lot of people who are hungry and in a rush. >> you have to download the amazon go app onto your phone and log into your amazon account. there are cameras watching. amazon says there's a lot of technology including computer vision and deep learning. when you're done getting your drink, food, snack or whatever just walkout. zbli felt like i was stealing

from amazon. >> here is my receipt on my phone. >> it is. amazon says they are another one in san francisco sao post and kearny. >> all right. if you love general hospital we have a treat for you. we spoke with one-half of the famous couple, luke and laura, why she says fans will love her return. i want to take your outside and show you what's going on. we have a cold front. this is about all it can kick up right now, some clouds. it will lead us to our coolest day.

we had a quick burst of color this morning. take a look and don't blink. it didn't last very long and it was gone. you can see the clouds giving way to sunshine. those were low clouds. they are going to filter our sunshine and keep us us us us us we should be let's see what's going on. high clouds and every once in a wile they get a little fuzzy. they are trying to drop some rain but it's bone dry. everything is evaporating. a warming trend starts tomorrow through saturday. all of the transitions in temperatures, none of them bring us any rain. you can see there is rain along

the cold front that will push through tomorrow and once it does it wipes the slate clean of all of the clouds. the warming trend begins. the bulk of the weather that's reaching the ground will stay well north of us. let's talk about our temperatures this afternoon. you'll need sunglasses from time to time. low to mid-60s along the coast and san francisco. here is a look at what's going on down in san jose. low to mid-60s at noon. we'll stay around 60 at the coast and mid-to upper 60s at 4:00. low to mid-50s under a full moon tonight. we'll drop into the mid-40s to mid-50s. i want to give you a quick look at what's going on. it is down to a category 3 at 120 miles per hour. it moves across mexico and towards the rio grande and pushes more unneeded rain

texas it could reflood rightod t >>here is only one daytime super couple we are talking about luke and laura from general hospital. she has reprized her role. her character's wedding to luke was watched by more than 30 million viewers and remains the highest rated hour in american soap opera history. laura is now marry today another character, kevin. she doesn't know his twin brother thought to have been dead has assumed his

>> everybody enjoys it. >> you can catch it every day at 2:00 p.m. only on abc 7. 2:00 p.m. only on abc 7. after the break find out why warning, california. a handful of billionaires have spent over $70 million on campaigns to undermine our public schools.

and electing a former wall street banker named marshall tuck to superintendent of public instruction is all a part of the billionaires' plan to take money away from neighborhood public schools and give it to their corporate charter schools. that's why tony thurmond is the only candidate endorsed by classroom teachers for superintendent of public instruction. because keeping our kids safe and improving our neighborhood public schools is always tony's top priority. public schools california's public schools rank 44th in the nation. 44th.

i'm marshall tuck, i'm a public-school parent, and i know we can do better. in the public schools i led, we got more funding into our classrooms, supported our teachers, and we raised graduation rates by 60%. that's why president obama's education secretary endorses me. we've done it before. now, let's do it for every public-school student in california. i'm marshall tuck. i'm running for state superintendent.

a donkey is now a internet sensation. this is >> is that the high c, high e? >> i don't know but harriet can belt out besit has been shared times. she is not only being praised for her voice but her stage presence as well. let's take a little look here. do we have time? look at that. >> not shy. >> i know. looks straight into the camera like i got this. did you hear that? wow. i think she needs to be cast in the latest hamilton. >> is she doing scales right now? >> i think so. >> sounds like

we need to work on that. thank you for joining us. who wants to be a millionaire is coming up next. see what you find out when you tune into abc 7 news? how about a lovely day in santa cruz. cloudy but very nice. bye bye.

>> today's contestant, peter jung from houston, texas, says he and his wife are huge fans of one of my other shows, "the bachelor." i have a feeling if he wins big today they just might have a new favorite show. let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] ramatic si ♪ hey, everybody, welcome to the show. you guys ready to go today? [cheers and applause] peter, they're fired up. >> i'm super excited too. >> if you are half as excited as they are, we're in good shape. >> i am. >> let me show you what you're up against. these 14 questions that'll take us all the way to $1 million. you have your three lifelines. you know what that's about. so let's get to work. >> let's do it. >> let's play "who wants to be a millionaire." [dramatic musical flouri