on abc 7 news at 5:00, democrats divided. the issue that created a boisterous finale for the democratic committee meeting in san francisco. and developing news, lightning strikes from the pga tour championship, those who were injured. and taking a small approach to tackling a big problem here in the bay area. now news to build a better bay area, from abc activists chant failure of leadership following a vote at today's dnc meeting against a climate change debate. abc 7 news reporte reporte repoe story. it was a tense ending to that

meeting. >> reporter: really contentious meeting here at the hilton union square which centered on climate change and the call for a single debate on the issue democratic candidates running for president made stops at the summer meetin in san francisco this week, climate change a top issue on most platforms. but many green activists are pushing for a presidential debate devoted exclusively to climate change. >> there is plenty of voters that are really disengaged not paying attention and climate change is a central issue to all of us young people. >> east bay congresswoman barbara lee supports the idea. >> we also have to have the climate change debate because it cuts across every single issue. >> reporter: party chairman tom perez initially shot down the move arguing it would only allow other single issue debates. >> we want to make sure we don't change the rules in the middle of the process. >> reporter: but under pressure from activist, perez allowed a vote and called on members for

comment. >> we need to take this issue seriously. we need to get a bunch of candidates who have all asked for a climate debate on stage together to have a conversation. >> reporter: others said there are too many other important issues to discuss. >> i don't need a specific focus climate debate in -- at the expense of a debate that i would also want on immigration. >> reporter: in the end, party members rejected a resolution to hold the climate change debate. >> reporter: activists stormed out of the room and onto the street. >> failure of leadership! failure of leadership! >> reporter: the same proposal was voted down earlier this week. many say they will keep trying. now republicans have been watching the meeting from afar this week, and they issued this statement. it's only appropriate the democrats chose san francisco as the home to some of the most destructive progresive policies in the nation. this is the perfect opportunity for voters to see what they would be getting into with a kamala harris, bernie sanders or

elizabeth warren presidency. we're live in san francisco, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. thank you very much. overseas now to the g-7 in france. president trump and world leaders are meeting this weekend in the wake of an unstable world economy. abc news reporter rachel scott has the latest. >> it's a meeting between the u.s. and our most important allies, world leaders arriving in france preparing to tackle a number of key issues including brexit and global trade at this year's g-7 summit. >> i'm very worried about the way it's going, the growth of o protections. >> newly elected british prime minister boris johnson's first visit to the summit. this pullout expected to have a big impact on an already teetering global economy. stock markets have been on edge since president trump and chinese president xi upped the ante in the trade war. >> if you look at november 9th the day after the election,

we're up 50 points or more. >> reporter: the president threatening to add new tariffs to french wines, an issue that didn't appear to spoil his cordial lunch with president emmanuel macron. >> so far so good. the weather is perfect, the guest is fantastic. everybody's getting along. >> reporter: the smiles continued as the heads of state gathered for saturday evening dinner, but there are some serious disagreements they'll face during this weekend's meeting. our allies works to keep iran in check, even after the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear deal. >> it'd be nice if we do share the same objective, first being su su sure. >> reporter: with fires currently destroying huge sections of the amazon rain forest, the climate change discussions among these world leaders likely to take on an urgent dynamic. the summit runs through monday. rachel scott, abc news washington. developing news out of atlanta where six people have been hurt following a pair of lightning strikes at the east

lake golf club during the 2019 pga tour championship. all were hit by falling debris after lightning struck a tree. medics responded quickly and rushed them to local hospitals. play was suspended halfway through the round for the rest of the day. it will restart tomorrow. developing news on a wildfire burning near redding in shasta county. officials say the mountain fire is now 60% contained. progress from the last report yesterday of 40% containment. the fire has destroyed 14 buildings and charred 600 acres since it started thursday morning. two people were injured. the shasta college campus is closed and there is an evacuation center at cross point community church. in the north bay they are preparing for wildfires like that one. sonoma county held its first full scale evacuation drill this morning. neighbors in santa rosa who signed up for an alert practiced evacuating their homes and

driving through evacuation routes. the american red cross handed out information and answered questions on disaster preparedness. sonoma county is identifying other high priority areas and plans to work on those community on more evacuation exercises. for the second time in less than a week a person died in a hit and run incident in san jose. the latest happened just after 3:30 this morning on santa theresa boulevard and st. ignace owe avenue. a man in a dodge ram laramie pickup truck hit a car at the intersection. that driver died. the driver of the pickup ran from the scene, and police are continuing to search for him. they're also looking for the driver who hit and killed a man in downtown san jose this past thursday morning. he died at the intersection of east san fernando and 4th streets just outside a library on the san jose state campus. in developing news, nearly 13,000 santa clara county workers have voted ahoke. our media partner the mercury news reports votes were counted last night. the union has not yet called for a strike. members was a 12.5% pay raise

over five years. people rallied this afternoon in support of an 87-year-old man who escaped the holocaust and is now facing eviction. abc 7 news was in alameda michael rishen held the hands of supporters and neighbors at the rally on shoreline drive. he's lived there since 2002 and says his section 8 status is this not protecting him from the rising cost of living, and his landlord wants to raise the rent by $700 a month. housing advocates plan to fight the rent hike on rishen's behalf. >> the fact is they get 31,000 a year for mr. rishen's apartment. they are not going broke. they are not given free rent to somebody who is sick. >> rishen recently lost his son to cancer. ma . one of the issues abc 7 news focuses on in the effort to built a better bay area is the housing crisis. today teams of volunteers built

movable tiny homes for homeless young people. they're spending this weekend building eight by ten foot tiny homes. they're easy to move so they can be set up wherever the need is. >> these may end up in a village of 26 in a church parking lot in oakland or berkeley. they may end up on a developer's land that is being waited to be developed in a two to three-year cycle, or they may be put on a piece of property that the city of oakland owns. >> volunteers will spend another weekend next month finishing these tiny homes. the goal is to have a dozen ready by next month. we want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. share them by joining our building a better bay area group on facebook. just ahead, donors are coming together to help solve a strange case of animal abuse involving a husky. and sailors of all stripes, people today got to tour a racing yacht that helped break down barriers. the pivotal role it played in

the first nautical achievement of its time. we're tracking a little bit of fog right now over san francisco, but it's a warmer afternoon on the way tomorrow. we'll have the numbers in the accuweather

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a hiking spot is off limits this week because of mountain lion sightings. the family of cougars were recently caught on camera walking along a trail at the rancho san antonio open space preserve in santa clara county. fish and wildlife says they are trying to lure the cougars further into the preserve and use humane measures to keep mountain lions from coming close to people. the open space preserve is south

of las altos hills. donors have increased the reward to $5,000 in the case of animal abuse out of salinas. the spca of monterey county says someone attached a clip through the skin of a husky and chained the animal to chunks of concrete. it's a metal loop connector commonly used to hooking onto harnesses. the clip had likely been attached to the young dog for more than ten days. the dog named neil is expected to make a full recovery. b.a.r.t. riders in contra costa county are facing delays. b.a.r.t. says that is causing 30-minute delays. tomorrow riders can expect delays in san francisco because trains will be single tracking between the embarcadero and 24th street mission station. crews are performing equipment upgrades. san francisco welcomed an historic yacht with an all woman crew to its ports today. the yacht named the maiden is traveling around the world to raise money and awareness for girls' education. they stopped at the st. francis

yacht club this morning to share their message. the first team was formed in 18989 and faced a lot of resistance from other sailors. this crew just came in from travels abroad in egypt, astralia and hawaii. the trip will take three years to complete. an online scheme cheated people out of nearly $10 million. >> we believe this is one of the largest cases of its kind in u.s. history. >> the victims were looking for love and ended up losing it all. ahead, details of a 252-count indictment about the fraud and the california connection. and i'm meteorologist drew tuma, a beautiful start to our weekend, but temperatures are going to warm up

80 people face charges in a massive online dating scam. they're accused of stealing $10 million and they face charges including fraud, money

laundering and identify theft. many of the victims are elderly women. investigators announced the arrest thursday and say there are 32 victims from all across the world. the u.s. attorney says 11 of the suspects were arrested in los angeles. >> at the center of the indictment our operatives here in los angeles who facilitated the fraud schemes by opening u.s. bank accounts where victims were directed to deposit their money. >> among the cases detailed in the indictment, an 81-year-old woman who thought she met an oil rig worker in belgium on facebook. in reality, she was a scammer who bilked her out of in the east bay, a delightful combination of colorful chalk art and chocolate made for a fun day. abc 7 news was in berkeley's gourmet ghetto for the 21st annual chocolate and chalk art festival. the event brought together

artists and chocolatiers for a unique combination. >> not so worried about the art, but that chocolate could melt over there. >> you stole my line. >> i did? great minds think alike or something. >> yeah, okay, i'm going to toss to drew now. >> okay. it's beautiful out there, though, the weekend's starting off with a lot of sunshine, some coastal clouds, but we'll find temperatures tomorrow warmer than we have this afternoon, so live doppler 7 along with satellite right now showing you clouds bumped up right along the coastline, but away from the coast we got a lot of sunshine. the emeriville camera showing you sunshine over the bay waters. you can see sutro tower getting pretty foggy. patchy in nature, not too widespread like this morning. here's the accuweather highlights. we'll track those coastal clouds. tomorrow it will be a warmer afternoon, our hottest spots going well into the 90s, and even warmer air moves in here on monday, but midweek we're going to find, again, an increase in humidity, so it will feel muggy, especially wednesday and

thursday. we'll talk about why in one second. numbers right now down to 64 with fog in the city. lots of sunshine in the south bay, 78 in san jose, 82 in santa rosa, and fairfield the hot spot on our map coming in at 93 degrees. overnight tonight we will track coastal clouds. very minor patchy fog along the shoreline. temperatures a little bit on the mild side, mid-50s to mid-60s, just an indication of that warmer air that's headed our way over the next 24 hours. here's the reason why, live doppler 7, a big area of high pressure right offshore is going to strengthen over the next 24 hours, and that's going to help to warm us up tomorrow afternoon. fog will be along the coastline. it won't be widespread warm weather, but you'll notice first thing in the morning at 7:00 in the morning patchy fog around san francisco and oakland, clouds along the coastline, and then it's a lot of sunshine tomorrow. tomorrow is another bright day away from the coast, and it's a warmer day in the south bay. 90 for a high in san jose. 93 in morgan hill, cupertino up

to 88 degrees. along the peninsula, some morning clouds, afternoon sunshine, 84 mountain view, 79 for san mateo. a bit of a breeze in daly city as well. in the north bay, 80s and 90s tomorrow. 90 in sonoma, the same in san rafael, 83 in vallejo. upper 70s to mid-80s in the east bay on sunday. 85 the high in fremont. i have the for brentwood, quick trip to the tropics to the south, tropical storm ivo. we are tracking it, winds 40 miles per hour. the storm is going to weaken over the next 24 hours as it enters cooler waters and pretty much falls apart. however, starting on tuesday we're going to get a little bit of that moisture moving into california, and that will help to increase the humidity. you'll really feel that on wednesday. here's the accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow it's a warmer

afternoon, and then it's hot on monday. that's our warmest day we have over the next seven. tuesday, the humidity's on the rise. midweek muggies wednesday and thursday, and then drier air works in here, so does cooler to finish out the seven-day forecast. >> are you going to be okay? >> me? it's you i'm worried about. >> i'm the one who has a heater behind her chair. >> thank you very much. true. talk a little baseball today? >> the heat is on the giants and a tough break for them. pablo sandoval out for the

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pablo sandoval hasn't played in a game for the giants since august 9th and unfortunately his last game was on that day. sandoval will undergo tommy johns century surgery in septem. he was placed on the injury list august 15th with right elbow inflammati inflammation. >> it is tough for me because i want to keep playing. i want to help this team, and especially right now we're in this race, and you know, i don't want to get out, but at the same time things happen for a reason. >> the giants are coming off a three-game sweep of the chicago cubs. they lost that is, and they lost four in a row. the a a's are 6-1 in this huge home stand. they're back to the bay bridge series. >> when it gets to this time of the year, you know, you can see the -- kind of the end in sight

and know that you have to play well, and the position that we're in, we know we have to play well, so i think all those combined would suggest, you know, we play better and we need to play better. >> it's definitely different like looking across the field at the a's uniforms and those guys over there. it's been a lot of fun. the fans get into it. you know these two games in oakland are going to be a good time. >> you saw it here on abc 7, little league world series, louisiana and hawaii, the kids from new orleans breaking through. part of a five-run, louisiana adding on, russell, two rbi knock. he set a little league world series record. louisiana beats hawaii 9-5. they'll play in the championship tomorrow in the international championship. it's japan and second baseman jury jurickson profar's little brother. the wild pitch gets past the younger profar. two runs are going to score.

it is now a 5-4 game. all kinds of drama here. next batter, oshu kubu, liner to left center. there's the catch. they will play louisiana in the championship tomorrow right here on abc 7. most of the big time super stars not playing for team usa as they gear up for the 2019 basketball for the red, white and blue. the team usa had won 78 straight in international tournaments and exhibitions. third quarter here, picks it up, pokes it away, jayson tatum the dunk. former st. mary's guard, mills, the former warrior knocks down three. australia up one, lls, bank i g kept piling it on. he scored 30 points and australia beats the usa 98-84 snapping that 78-game winning streak. hey, did you see this earlier this week, warrior

ambassador held his seventh annual swinging for kids golf tournament in alamo, legends were there to raise money for the kerosene lamp foundation, which helps kids with educational and athletic opportunities. good stuff there in alamo. we'll be having a feature story at some point soon. adano is the nicest guy ever. >> he's the sweetest seven-footer you'll ever meet. >> how is his game? >> he's not a big golfer. but he's good at getting everybody else to golf for a good cause. check out an event with real

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new on abc 7 news at 6:00, they may look cute and furry, but they could soon be banned as pets. the animal that's landed in california's cross hairs. and more problems for tesla's solar panel business. major retailer that says the panels were involved in a fire at a southern california warehouse. all right, taco fanatics turned up in downtown concord for a satisfying combination of good food, booze and entertainme entertainment. >> abc 7 news was there for the taco fest today. over a dozen delicious taco destinations came together to put on thatoofestival. >> it included margaritas for sipping, tequila for tasting, and plenty of things to see include buchador wrestling. >> and i missed it? >> wait, you missed it like you missed participating in it? >> no, i missed watching it. >> thanks for clarifying.

>> i've been around a little too long for wrestling. sorry to say. >> that's it for a tonight several breaking stories as we come on. the surprise lightning strike disrupting a pga tournament. six people injured. many rushed to the hospital. plus the tropical threats, a reported tornado up toing down and the storm being tracked that could turn into a hurricane. sam champion standing by. also tonight, economic war games. president trump on the world stage at a major meeting of global leaders doubling down on a serious threat demanding all american businesses to leave china, escalating the trade war. tonight the president saying he has the power to do it. royal regret. prince andrew personally acknowledging his friendship with accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. what he's saying tonight about his visits to epstein's many residences.