would target 2,000 undocumented immigrants on dep lists. i.c.e. officials will not comment or will not confirm that this raid is happening. this rally, though, here in san francisco is set to start at 11:30 this morning. reporting live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. you should know your rights and we have resources for you. go to our web sit sit sit sit st abc7news.com. let's get a quick update on weather and traffic, starting with meteorologist mike nicco rch. you can see gray on the south bay and trying to push into the napa valley. everywhere else it's pretty clear. you can see the fog pretty thick over san francisco, can't see the top of embarcadero center there. that's going to be around for the morning commute. temperatures around 65 to 70 degrees.

noon, it's going to be comfortable out there. we're topping 80 inland. 73 around the bay and 58 along the coast. look for spotty sunshine, it will start to push you into the low to mid-60s. near 80 around the bay, 90 inland and a comfortable evening on the way. here's alexis. good morning mike, we are looking at barrier work wrapping up on golden gate bridge right now. i just watched crews work through, picking up cones on the northbound side of 101 heading into marren county. they should be wrapping that up shortly, and yeah, does not look like we have any delays due to that northbound or southbound, and that means the zipper trucks can come through shortly. friday light, we're still in the green, 28 minutes, south on 680 dublin to mission boulevard. northbound 58, highway 101 to cupertino. in the fregreen, 15 minutes.

a suspected drunk driver is in custody for a hit-and-run accident that seriously hurt a 2-year-old girl. this happened yesterday afternoon in santa rosa. according to the press democrat, the girlfriend was getting into her grandmother's vehicle when she suddenly ran into the street and got hit. the girl has major injuries. she is expected to survive. an officer recognized a white van seen leaving that area, and tracked it to an apartment complex nearby. 47-year-old hector larios was arrested for felony hit-and-run and dui. police say he was involved in another hit-and-run accident just last week. he has multiple past dui convictions. new legal trouble this morning for singer r. kelly. he has been arrested and is now facing new federal sex crime charges. the u.s. attorneys office spokesperson says the r and b singer was taken into custody last night in chicago. the 13 count federal indictment includes child pornography, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice. kelly already faces similar

charges brought by i'll prosecutors brought -- illinois prosecutors brought by four women. officials have ordered evacuations in some areas while the mississippi is at flood stage. >> reporter: good morning, tropical storm barry is taking its time overnight marching toward louisiana at only about 3 miles per hour, it's expected to pack a punch that will likely get stronger before it makes landfall. this morning the gulf is bracing, with tropical storm threatening to become a hurricane by the weekend. thousands scrambling to sandbag and evacuate. as much as 20 inches of rain on the way to parts of louisiana as the state is already battling unprecedented flooding, and a torrent of hurricane r levees p new orleans. >> we're connogogo have a duplif

katrina. however, if you have a storm that haseing bg 48 hours of heavy rainfall, beginning friday night and not letting up until late sunday. >> forecasts show once barry makes landfall, it's expected to move north during the week, parts of texas and mississippi too. abc news, washington. president trump says he's abandoning the effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. instead he's directing federal agencies to attempt to compile the information using existing databases. the president's plan has been unclear since the supreme court blocked the questiolast newsoms a fund to compensate victims. part of the money will come from utility company shareholders. half comes from the rate payer, a 2.50 fee on your utility bill will be

critics say the bill is a sweetheart deal for the utility industry. >> our commitment to building a bay area is on the issues that affect your community. car burglaries are highlighting the need for more police officers. last night a thief targeted tourists again near fisherman's wharf. a rental car was broken into hours before a family was headed home to on tuesday two auto burglaries ran over a tourist at the legion of honor. city leaders admitted again that the police department is under staffed. we haven't grown as quickly as we would like to. it's a constant channel and a tough market right now for hiring. >> a robust economy is one of the culprits when it comes to hiring more officers. the fbi is searching for a person who broke into an agent's car and stole a rifle and other

items. the thief got away with a cold m 4 rifle and ammunition magazine, and an official fbi rain jacket. it happened around 8:40 in the parking lot of a hegenberger shopping center. san francisco supervisors blocked a plan to speed up housing in the city. instead, they got behind a competing proposal. >> texting a change to its fare date to solve one of the problems that angers riders the most. hey, google, who's listening, it turns ore peoplelung ohyou thin all of that is ahead, but fstme mike >> assume everyone can hear you. >> that's kind of a shame. here's what's going upper 50s along the east bay

shore. we have 52 in novato. 53 in pacifica. 60 in san jose, and concord. 56 in livermore right now, the san mateo bridge as we look to the west. it's kind of foggy a little bit. you'll run into patchy fog. mild this morning. it's going to be hot if you're heading back to the inland on mass transit. east bay valley starting off with clouds, and 61 at 7:00. quick sunshine and 80 by noon. hanging out in the low to mid-90s this afternoon. and still 85 degrees at 7:00 this evening. for the peninsula, we'll will cloudy through 7:00. sun breaks out around nine. we hit the 70s at 11:00 and near 80 this afternoon, and down in the south bay, we're waking up with a little bit of cloud cover through 7:00, and then total sunshine and mid-80s, even a few upper 80s this afternoon. it's going to be a warm one just about everywhere.

we'll take a look at the hot weekend coming upme. first we're hoping for friday light. light, but it is still 4:30. we did have a stretch of yellow on northbound 101, and various lanes closed between san antonio and oregon expressway until 5:00. they may be in the clearing stages right now. mass transit off to a quiet start. b.a.r.t. trains began running at 5:00 a.m. no delays yet.

you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. if you're heading down south, even hotter temperatures, upper 90s to 105, maybe 107 and you can see this area in orange, 3 million people under that heat advisory. let's take a look at what's going on. you can see upper 90s to low 100s through the central valley. 115 in palm springs. 75 to 84 around san diego to los angeles. mid- to upper 60s along the coast and mid- to upper 80s up in the high country. in fact, 84 today in tahoe. a minor dip to 80 on sunday it is going to be breezy if you're out on the water. >> mike, thank you. we here at abc 7 news are committed to building a better bay area and finding solutions to the housing crisis is a major part of that. competing measures to find affordable housing have a clear

winner. blocked last night by the board of supervisors rules committee. the amendment would have streamlined the construction approval process for teachers but most board members are choosing to support another ballot measure. that would permit 100% affordable and teacher housing projects on public land for other sites deemed appropria. b.a.r.t. -- deemed appropriate. b.a.r.t. has taken another step in the fight by upgrading their fare gates, so take a look. improvements have been made at four stations in san francisco and two in the east bay. more now from abc 7 news anchor, po a.t.,s. fei >> they want us to do something about it. is that a jumper? >> reporter: it is inevitable to witness it in action over and over again. >> that's what i'm talking about, right. >> reporter: which is why these pop up barrier pro to types are

being installed. >> 4 inches extra height so people don't jump over. >> reporter: b.a.r.t. estimates it loses between 15 and $25 million a year because of these passengers who one way or another get through without paying. these pop ups are just the beginning. last month, b.a.r.t. introduced stacked fare gates at the richmond station. >> we're testing out different things and hoping something works to stop fare evasion. >> reporter: twitter users seem skeptical, which is why b.a.r.t. says they are still in the testing phases. >> we don't know what, if anything, is going to be rolled out system wide right now. we want to try different methods. >> reporter: the stacked gates, the pop ups and other methods will be reviewed by the b.a.r.t. board later this fall. in oakland, i'm dion lim, abc 7 news. tomorrow auditions begin for the warriors dance team. preliminary auditions will be

held at the -- >> rocker 10 performance center. >> thank you. >> this year, the warriors will have an all male blue crew which will perform at 15 home games. we can't make this coed? >> if we're going to make people wear spandex that has bedazzling on, let's make it gender equal, you know, equal opportunity. >> you know the blue crew is not going to be in 4 inch shorts. i just have a feeling. >> yeah. >> i'm not opposed to it. i'm just saying i have a feeling it's not going to happen. hi, mike. let's talk about what's going to happen today. let me load up our highlights and you can see this is walnut creek. if you live in our inland east bay valleys, you don't need it now but if you want a home later on, go ahead and turn the air conditioner on right now. set it to a level that will turn on, you know, a couple hours before you get home and start to

warm things up or cool things down, excuse me. mild to hot, coast to inland today, clear inland. patchy fog around the bay and coast tonight. temperatures will slowly taper to average next week. here's a look at our cloud cover. notice how quickly, faster than yesterday it dissipates and along the coast we'll have patches of sunshine today, which helps push you into the mid-and upper 60s. look at the spread in the south bay from 82 in milpitas to low to mid-90s in gilroy and morgan hill and the refreshing 83 degrees on the board walk. it neimay make you get in the wr for a little bit. it's 54 degrees. low 80s for the rest of the peninsula. mid- to upper 60s. there you see it to near 70. 73 downtown. south san to mid-80s elsewhere, and 87 is the cool spot in pleasanton to

97 in brentwood. accuweather seven-day forecast, a couple of degrees warmer tomorrow. sunday is going to be a lot like today, a cooling trend, but the 90s are going to barely hang on through wednesday. we'll cool down through the 60s and 70s for our coast and bay temperatures starting monday. alexis. we're off to a quiet start on the roads. here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. looks like car pool lanes are opening up as we speak. the cash lanes are the only slow spots. our drive times looking good so far. westbound 80. highway 4 to the maze and the green, 16 minutes. a 15 minute drive, i don't know if i believe that. i'm seeing wide open traffic from the toll plaza into san francisco. southbound 101, san francisco to sfo, you're in the green in nine minutes. this is a photo of a slumped over dummy, strapped in a seat belt in the back of a vehicle. chp officers in contra costa

county posted the image on facebook with the message, nice try. wonder what judge will say. the driver used the hooded dummy to cruise through car pool lanes in two years. chp included the hash tag, instant karma. >> chp is getting real sassy. >> maybe the guy from b.a.r.t.'s twitter account took over. >> it's not even a very good likeness. you have been on dummy alert for a couple of years now. >> oh, yeah, i used to work with someone who did. he actually had a very large stuffed panda bear. he got away with it for years too. some of these are really advancedment so advanced. some of them are not. >> i didn't. >> you may still trying to be getting away with it. >> that's crazy. >> thank you. >> > >> google admitting contractors can listen to recorders of what

you say to a voice assistant. and here's tech bytes. >> google is defending its practice of having workers listen in on google assistant conversations. >> one thousand voice clips were leaked to a belgium news outlet. it uses the clips to improve voice recognition technology. ford and volkswagen are accepting a partnership in billions for self-driving cars. >> it's the next step in the joint venture which was announced a year ago by the auto make makers. and you won't be able to blame the ump for ball and strike calls in one league. >> the atlantic league is using a doppler radar system behind the plate. the league tried it out this aan.nd in the all star game.t >> robots for the umps. >> and humans make errors. >> thank you very much mr.

roboto sglr roboto. >> those are your tech bite syt you're paying almost double for avocados than a year ago. people run for their lives as an out of control cab crashes into a busy restaurant. how the driver says this happened. an injured baby bird gets a ride to a rescue center in style.

all star game is in the past and the major league baseball season resumes and we have the sox and the a's. they made a nice surge before the break and they will be playing tonight at about 7:07. 68 degrees, and 62 by the time the game is over. i know it says 6:07. i will fix that. i apologize. it's going to be cool. new video of a taxicab careening into a restaurant in new york. you're going to see people jump off of the sidewalk as that vehicle is coming toward them. eight people were hurt here. five of them taken to the

hospital. their injuries aren't believed to be life threatening. crews determined there was no structural damage to the building. cab driver told police he lost control of his vehicle after another r hit him f totally sca a person walking across the golden gate bridge had almost no time to react when two surf boards flew off of a car. that person happened to be shooting video of their walk on monday when it happened, and that's when a surf board suddenly came loose. wow, from the car's rack and landed in that pedestrian walkway. we're playing this again. chp tells us that the person who shot the video suffered only minor injuries. certainly could have been worse. the surf board's owner is cooperating with the investigation. a hurt baby bird got a ride to a rescue center in style. the wildlife rehabilitation center of northern utah posted these photos. a man says he found the bird after he and his friends had been drinking. >> okay. >> i'm not sure why that detail is important. he contacted the center who told

him to bring the bird in. they didn't want him to drive intoxicated so they called an uber. the bird would have likely died had it not received help. >> that's nice. i'm glad he found it and he was responsible getting there, and hopefully they want to raise the pigeon to his full life. >> i like how you slid in it was a pigeon there in a sly wi. >> -- sly way. >> i believe it's a pigeon, and i'm hoping the center wants a pigeon in the world like i do. i had no clue it was a pigeon. i appreciate that. let's take a look at what's going on. while we were sleeping, barry became a 50 miles per hour storm, creeping along at abouts. you have seen most of the convection has been to the south but now it's starting to wrap around to the north, and i think that means we're going to see an increase in the strength up to tropical storm status but it doesn't have very long to warm up to a hurricane, so it may not as it comes ashore near morgan,

near say just south of baton rouge as we head into the morning hours tomorrow and then it goes right up 49, and then across hot springs arkansas and up towards little rock. because of the eastern quadrants where we're going to have the most amount of rain, you can see it's the toe box of the boot of louisiana and mississippi, along interstate 55. they're going to take the brunt of the wet weather. the mississippi is at flood stage, and then you're going to drop 18 to 24 inches, a foot and a half to 2 feet on top of it. it's going to be devastating flooding from morgan city all the way to baton rouge up towards wilson. it's just not going to be good this weekend, unfortunately. >> hate to hear that, mike. we're taking a look at the commute this morning, mostly green on our traffic map. no major incidents to report, our typical slow spots filling in. about 28 miles per hour down to 17 miles an hour, once you make it past that interchange to 580.

overall, that is looking lighter than a monday through thursday commute, and really light here, southbound 680 through walnut creek, north of the 24 split. should have plenty of room and no slowdowns. the site of the world's worst nuclear tg to attract more tourists. ukraine's president has signed off on plans for new walking trails and enhanced mobile phone reception is open to tourists and has been since 2011. there has been a sharp rise since the mini series about the tragedy in may. a glowing global demand is partly to blame for exploding avocado prices. wholesale prices are almost double from year ago. most of the increase is being passed to you. a seasonal dip in production in mexico is driving the cost of

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protesters defending undocumented immigrants on deportation lists. the rally happening today in the city. and a great white shark sighting in san mateo county. the sheriff's office now issuing a warning. good morning, it is friday, july 12th, we have made it to the end of the week. you're never more than 7 minutes away from your accuweather forecast. mike, what do you have. i like that look you did. >> we're ready. >> that's what you're going to need this weekend in some areas because it is going to get hot. hi, everybody, a little bit of a sea breeze out there. you can see it pulling clouds into the bay and the napa valley with the 28 miles per hour wind in fairfield, and it's compressed once again because of the high pressure on top of us. can't even see the top of sales force, watch out for patchy fog through the morning commute. a few degrees cooler, 55 to 60. notice the low to mid-60s at the coast where we'll have a littl