the dangers of e-cigarettes has prompted governor newsom to issue an executive order to crack down. a $20 million public awareness campaign on the dangers of vaping and removing products. the governor says he's looking at raising the tax on e-cigarettes. >> the cdc is activating its emergency operation center in response. it will work around the clock collecting data and helping local officials. the emergency operation center has dealt with more than 60 public health threats since 2001. it is now 4:30 f. you're just waking up, good morning. >> good morning, everyone. you're never more than seven minutes away from traffic and weather. and here's mike. thank you, kumasi, reggie. hi, everybody. notice the winds are much calmer than this time yesterday, less than 10 miles per hour. they will pick up as we head into the afternoon hours. that will keep us below average. my accuweather 12-hour planner. look at the temperatures, mid to

upper 50s this morning. you might need a jacket but not an umbrella and the windshield wipers today. by noon we'll see those high clouds out there start to thin. we'll hit 63 at the coast. 71 to 75. very comfortable around our bay and inland neighborhoods. we'll stay in the mid-60s at the coast. sunny and that's when the breezes will start to pick up once again. by 7:00 62 to 67 degrees. if you're heading out after the sun sets at 7:15, grab a coat. if you're in the north bay, you might need an umbrella. i'll show that you coming up. here is frances again. all right, mike. good morning, everyone. we're still looking good on bay area freeways. a couple things you might need to look out for, road work and a high wind advisory for the benicia bridge. as you continue the ride on 680 more road work between hhw 4 t scheduled until 5:00 this morning. and the ride on northbound 880 as you make your way out of san cleared as well by about 5:00 r

he iwing on westbound 580, 25 miles per hour out of tracy and picking up to 35 as you make your way through the altamont pass. >> thanks, frances. president trump is going to be in the bay area for a fund-raiser today. as a security precaution the trump campaign hasn't publicly announced where this event will take place but protesters say they're prepared. they plan to inflate chicken trump and baby trump balloons you see on your screen. last night the president held a campaign rally in new mexico. >> under this administration, america is working again. america is winning again. and america is respected again like it hasn't been for a long time. >> abc 7 news reporter jobina fortson will have more on the president's itinerary coming up in the next half hour. >> to get updates on the president's visit download our abc 7 news app. you'll get push alerts for breaking news, and you can

customize it to receive alerts for the topics and places you're interested in. president trump won't be the only top official in the bay area today. ben carson is expected to visit san francisco to discuss california's homeless crisis. mayor london breed does not have plans to meet with him. she says federal policy leaves significant room for improvement and carson should be aware of the effect it is having on the city. she made that comment while touring a navigation center in the mission district that added 60 new beds. the mayor says she has seen a decreased commitment from the federal government. breed says san francisco will continue to expand services and add new shelter beds. major new developments in the case of the hillsborough heiress accused of killing the father of her children. a key witness has lost his plea deal. abc 7 news reporter kate larsen spoke with the district attorney and has the details. it has taken twists and turns, and i daresay i think there are going to be more twists and turns. >> reporter: adding to the courtroom drama was the district

attorney steve wagstaffe's decision monday not to call olivier adella to testify in the murder trial of kaveh bayat and tiffany li. >> we have lost our trust in the validity of his testimony. >> reporter: a bombshell after wagstaffe decided last week to make a motion to revoke the d.a.'s plea deal with adella after they say he violated conditions of their agreement which included not using social media or contacting other witnesses. li and bayat are accused of murdering keith green, li's former boyfriend and father of her two children, who was shot in 2016. adella, li's trainer, pleaded no contest to accessory to murder for dumping green's body in sonoma county. now it's possible the d.a. will prosecute adella for green's murder. >> in some way we're celebrating a little. on the other hand this doesn't mean the end of the case. >> reporter: the lead attorney has felt adella played a larger role in green's murder but without him on the stand his defense strategy has to change.

>> it turns the case into an entirely different animal. you work for three years on a case with a lead witness for the prosecution and now all of a sudden he's gone, that changes everything. >> reporter: i'm kate larsen, abc 7 news. saudi arabia says it will invite international experts to help in the investigation into an attack on the worm's largest oil refinery. pthe saudis say all indications are iranian weapons were used in saturday's attack. iran denies it. iran's supreme leader khameni says this morning there will be no talks with the u.s. at any level. there had been special he might meet with him during the u.s. jep assembly this month. global oil prices pulled back overnight after a 20% spike following the attack say that gasoline prices could jump 10 to 25 cents a gallon in the next week or two. they could jump even hig eau plant can't resume operations quickly.

we could be a major step closer to a cure for the common cold. scientists sharing exciting research. building a better bay area by going from renter to buyer. considering new protection from evictions. a neighborhood in berkeley is a culinary mecca and now its nickname is causing some controversy. >> that's all ahead. first, it is 4:36. you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. if you had the windows open last night, cooler in the house this morning. look at these temperatures, almost double digit cooler than we were 24 hours ago. where does that put us on the peninsula? mid to upper 50s. but the dry air also is something you'll notice. take a look at some other neighborhoods. we've got 52 in palo alto and san ramone and also los gatos. you get san ramone at 59. look at napa, 49 degrees. a look at the dry bay bridge. that's the way your commute is going to be all day today. no need to worry about wet

weather. grab thesudu'ee it. bus stops, mass transit stops, going to be cool this morning. dress appropriately and breezy on the bay but no small craft advisory during the afternoon hours. let's take a look at what's going on for the east bay. 58 at 7:00. should be a very colorful sun rise with high clouds out there. we're in the 60s through 11:00. barely into the low 70s this afternoon, down to 65 degrees already by 7:00. and in the north bay, 52 at 7:00. notice 62 at 9:00. 70 at 11:00. we'll be near 80 at 3:00, one of our warm spots. down to 68 and sunshine at 7:00. for san francisco we'll start at 58 at 7:00. hit 68 at 11:00. some low 70s from about noon through 5:00 and 66 under sunshine at 7:00. th bom inmorrow. we'll talk more about that coming up. first we'll bring frances in. it's got to be better than yesterday. >> so much better.

we had such a mess with the slick conditions. today it's calm er and and and coming off the dumbarton bridge eastbound 84. parkway is off to the right-hand side. it's an overturn crash. this is road work. you're down to one lane. pretty good looking here, a minor wait for the cash paying lanes and the san mateo bridge is fine now. and lots of green drive times across the golden gate bridge, six minutes. eight minutes across the bay

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let's take a look at what's going on around the state today. look at those chances of thunderstorms up around eureka. that is the next chance of wet weather for us tonight and tomorrow. look at the sunshine and dry air with 82 in sacramento. 83 in fresno. los angeles 82. sunshine. 70 in monterey. 77 in san diego. finally out of the 100s, 99 today in palm springs. a sunny 70 in yosemite. no more snow in tahoe. we have video of that coming up.

65 there. a look at what will happen this week and freezing cold friday morning. 29. 64 in the afternoon. mid-30s to upper 60s for saturday and sunday. mike, thank you, part of our commitment to building a better bay area is focusing on issues like housing. the city of richmond will draft an ordinance that could protect tenants from being displaced, the tenants opportunity to purchase. owners of rental units would be required to offer their tenants a chance to buy the facility before it'smoshed, sctinued or . the council will discuss at their meeting tonight. bay area scientists believe we are on the verge of a cure for the common cold. dome at stanford and ucsf temporarily disable a specific protein inside our cells. they found when the protein is disabled it stops many common cold viruses and other diseases from spreading in the body. >> traditional antiviral drugs

target parts of the virus but the virus is very smart and can mutate its way around it. what we do we make the host for these viruses so it's much more difficult for the virus to mutate around. >> so now the work starts to develop the drug that temporarily disables the protein. once that happens, human trials can start. if everything goes well a cure could happen pretty soon. in the east bay an iconic part of berkeley has become controversial. a stretch of the avenue lined with upscale restaurants has been known as the gourmet ghetto for decades. dion lim talk to some who say that change is overdue. >> reporter: wrecking ball roasters prides itself for being an inclusive place. >> we want everyone to know they can come and enjoy coffee. >> reporter: what has never made sense to the owners is the nickname of where their cafe is located along north shattuck

avenue known as the gourmet ghetto. >> to have it up on banners, on websites adds insult to jurninj. >> reporter: it's not positive. >> to black and brown people in america, it's salt in the wound. >> reporter: so tricia nicholas sent a formal request to the north shattuck association to the term he and others find offensive. by speaking out with the intention of making change in their neighborhood, their employees have experienced hateful pushback. >> we've had a couple employees harassed on the street by folks. >> i'm actually ashamed i haven't sooner. >> reporter: alice waters is the legendary chef and restauranteur. she says it's not just the word ghetto that bothers her. >> gshattuck

association says the term has been around since the '70s. however, in order to be an inclusive place that welcomes diversity they are open to discussion about the nickname. in berkeley, dion lim, abc 7 news. >> thank you for that report. san mateo county officials say there may have been a mountain lion sighting. a neighbor reported seeing the cat around 8:00 in the area of hacienda way at bertocchi lane in millbrae. the animal just ran into the wooded hillside nearby. no other neighbors have seen the cat. >> mike nicco has your first look at the day ahead. hi, mike. hi, kumasi, hi, everybody. it's 58 degrees. looking at pretty clean air. what a refreshing air mass. the breezes will pick up this afternoon keeping us below average. now we're stuck in this bowl of cold air coming down from the

northwest. there's still a chance of showers and by friday we'll be forgetting about wet weather and talking 80s and 90s. today barely some 80s out there, places like morgan hill, concord, antioch, fairfield, livermore. tonight not nearly as cool as this morning. look at the green. scattered showers across the north bay with upper 50s there. waiting for tomorrow morning's commute for the wet weather. 4:00 in the morning, you see some scattered showers, even some yellow on the sonoma county coast. notice the radar returns is not nearly as widespread as they were yesterday but they're still out there at 9:00. we'll see clearing in the north bay. scattered showers across the

south bay. by 7:00 everything is gone. here is a look at my accuweather seven-day forecast that will push temperatures back down into the 70s once again. we'll rebound back to average levels from thursday into friday and then warmer than average and, of course, our hottest day is the first day of fall, monday. >> hi, mike. looking forward to that. we might see more accidents tomorrow. we're tracking a few of them. one is in newark, eastbound 84 coming off the benicia bridge. it's off the freeway. a car driving too fast flipped over and landed back on its wheels. traffic still moving along that stretch at 66 miles an hour. a new crash out of tracy to near 580. it looks like they've taken make your way on westbound 205 and picks up as you make your way into livermore. the drive time has grown, tracy to dublin is 38 minutes. then that southbound 680

stretch, which was a horrible mess yesterday, right now from dublin to mission boulevard south is only 15 minutes. here is a look if you're heading to the richmond/san rafael bridge. looking good across the span. here is another shot. 87 in san jose. problem free in the south bay. guys? >> frances, thank you. the wait is over if you want to check out apple arcade. the new gaming system is already available. >> and flying water taxis are being tested in paris. here's "tech bytes." the game is on. >> you do not have to wait until thursday to check out apple arcade. it's available right now to anyone running apple's new mobile operating system ios 13. apple arcade is a new subscription service for video gaming and you can try it for free for a month. amazon has plans to boost its network of delivery lockers. >> the goal is to speed up prime shipments and make up losing fede divr.the are fewhan 10,000

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there's a look at our high temperatures and how they compare to average. i don't want to get to that quite yet. i want to talk about the a's. yeah, they took one on the chin last night but they won six in a row. they can lose one once in a while. 7:07. just once in a while, though. 7:07 first pitch. 67 degrees dropping down to a cool 62 by the end of the game. under the stars at the coliseum. >> mike, sounds nice. the federal trade commission is takingting student loan debt relief services. they allege they charged illegal up front fees and lead customers

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culture, if you will, of the time with everybody repeating lines and talking about it. it was popular. i worked for nbc at the time. wednesday, tomorrow, a look at where the best chance of thunderstorms will be mainly across the northern corridor of the state dipping down into parts of lake tahoe. this is the system that eventually will drop some showers our way. let's take a look at our potential rainfall amounts. if you were with us a few minutes ago i said it would be moisture starved. yesterday we had anywhere from a tenth to even a third of an inch of rain from our lower elevations to higher elevations. this one we may not even get up to a tenth. some areas are not going to get any wet weather at all. it's going to be more scattered in nature compared to where we were this time yesterday. but the fact we're having two chances of wet weather in september in three days pretty impressive. no storm impact scale needed right now. if this does increase, we t w we' go.

ke, w looking good as well. there are a couple accidents but they're not slowing anyone down. there's road work, though, causing a few brake lights on the peninsula on 101 in both directions between marsh and wood side road. there's some construction blocking lanes until about 5:00 this morning. we are picking up definite slowing in the northbound direction as you make your way out of menlo park to redwood city. as we check out the ride, though, across the golden gate bridge, traffic is light. you can see across the span. no fog to slow you down. no rain, no wet roads. it has been a much better commute this morning. here is 101 in san jose. headlights move northbound and llll the way up the f mgan peninsula, of course, there's the slowdown through menlo park. and the drive time right now southbound 101 san francisco to sfo is nine minutes. we have green drive times as well northbound 880 to the maze and north 101 to the san jose airport. a fourth grader with autism

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now at 5:00, tragic new details on a boat crash that killed an 11-year-old boy near angel his father facing charges in the death. also this morning, president trump pays a visit to the bay area, and he's not the only top republican in town today. >> good morning on this tuesday, september 1th. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from our accuweather forecast. here is mike. thank you, kumasi, reggie. hi, everybody. tracking high clouds. that's it on live doppler 7. much quieter morning as we expected. temperatures up to 16 degrees cooler thanks to the dry air moving in. this is the