issue for us, especially with this hillside. >> the fire did destroy an outbuilding at the top of the hill. it did burn about 60 acres. no word yet on the cause. reporting live in fairfield, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. the largest fire in the state is burning in the south bay. the 5,400 cruz fire north of gilroy destroyed a structure so far and another. fceo evacuate.ing to cal fire. it started sunday just east of highway 1 o1. we just checked, the fire is only 20% contained. in contra costa county, crews are watching for flair ups near rodeo. flames came dangerously close to homes and one man said the smoke started coming into his house.

>> right away we got the kids out and got them in our van and tookaic loo in the back and sure enough a big theidat whe hat's throughout the morning to mop o abc7 news app as the firefighters were battling the fires across the bay area. you can download the app so you can get breaking news alerts wherever it happens wherever you live. 23 counties including marin and contra costa are now on the watch list of places with rising coronavirus cases. santa clara has been removed from the list. counties added showing concerning covid trends for three days and they are ordered to roll back reopenings. this back and forth is taking a toll on local businesses. >> the problem with the yo-yo effect if you get on the list and off the list and open for indoor dining and not open for

idoor dining and to go and patio, you can't plan your business based on these ever-changing variables. you need to know how many people you need to hire. >> well, the governor says alcohol beverage control conducted nearly 6,000 visits to bars over the weekend and 52 citations were issued including some in the south bay. happening today, a plan to allow indoor dining in san francisco expected to be put on hold, according to the golden gate restaurant association. mayor brooed is expected to make the announcement at 11:30 this morning. indoor dining set to resume on monday. last week they delayed hair salons and zoos after covid-19 cases spiked in the city. we will stream what the mayor has to say on our app and at abc7news.com. the california state capital is closed for the next week because a lawmaker and four staffers have tested positive

for covid-19. assembly member autumn burke had a mask-to-mask exposure and later tested positive. she wore face coverings at all times while she was working and has no symptoms but will self-quarantine. the u.s. is closing in on a grim milestone. nearly 3 million people have tested positive. jobina is at the live desk with the concerns that the numbers will keep rising. jobina. >> thank you, kumasi. good morning, yes. more coronavirus hot spots continue to pop up as more people let their guard down. so far in the united states here, a devastating number, 130,000 people have died from the virus. miami has closed gyms and restaurants. l.a. hit a record high number of cases over the weekend. >> cases are surging, hospitalizations are increasing and mostly this is all a reflection of a lot more community spread.

>> medical experts are criticizing president trump for incorrectly attributing the surge in cases to more testing. the white house says he was simply noting the fact that a majority of people who get sick will recover. and despite the rising number of cases and deaths, the president is still planning on holding a rally in new hampshire next weekend. kumasi? >> thank you, jobina. the u.s. environmental protection agency has approved the use of two lysol products against covid-19. they are the lysol disinfectant spray and the max cover mist. the epa says lab testing shows the products are effective against the virus. officials still remind everybody that these products should only be used on surfaces not on people. don't spray anybody. well, protecting our health is a part of building a better bay area and the protection that many people crave right now are coronavirus antibodies. once you have them, do they last

forever? our sister station in los angeles looked into that. >> reporter: one 65-year-old came home from a cruise in mid-california and one of the first californians diagnosed with covid-19. >> my doctor contacted the cdc and ventura county health. >> reporter: he recovered at home and since donated his plasma four times to boost the immunity of others. but during his last donation the doctors noticed that his antibody levels nearly diminished. >> i thought they would stay active for longer than they did. >> how his antibody profile changes and i was a bit surprised to hear that. >> reporter: pullmmonologist sa what he's seeing is coinciding with a new study out of china saying antibodies fade eight weeks after recovery. whether the illness leads to any lasting immunity. >> very few cases of people who have been shown to be reinfected. >> reporter: yet he says there is not enough evidence to show

that recovery patients are protected. in spain where there were a lot of outbreaks they did a large-scale study. only 5% of the population had antibodies you need 60 to 65% to have herd immunity. >> this recent outbreak of what is going on i kind of self-secluded myself in the house again. >> reporter: these findings suggest the only way we're going to achieve herd immunity is with a vaccine. until then, he says we need to follow all the health protocols, wear masks, stay apart. >> the future is bright. we will come up with a way to help everyone. but at the same time, we need to be patient. we need to at least protect one another. >> reporter: denise, abc7 news. disaster nearally avoided when an oakland fire crew is delayed. coming up next, the action the

city is taking to make sure this does not happen again. and it looks like an alien pod floating in the middle of the bay, but it is actually the future of climate change. i'm interested. >> you got my attention. >> but, you know what, mike, we're also worried about these winds. i was driving on interstate 80 yesterday and saw the smoke by fairfield and it's just like, oh, my gosh, what is going on. this was around the time it was getting started and then we also saw some firefighters on the side of the interstate putting out stuff there. it hits you. it's getting real. it is real. the winds are serious and they're out there trying to protect us, you know. >> right, right. such a wind tunnel through that area where we squeeze all the winds that come across san francisco and the golden gate bridge. right through that narrow strait you know from hercules and

cordelia and fans out as it heads through fairfield and those areas. that is what the firefighters are dealing with again today. let me show you some of those winds. we should make you a weather watcher official. it's 55 right now and one of the lower elevation reporting stations with the west wind at 10 to 15 miles per hour and that's in fairfield. now, look at cordelia. they will run into 45-mile-per-hour winds and that's what makes that fire so scary. let's talk about the crew's fire near gilroy.relative humidity o. pretty pristine conditions for fire different fighting there as we wake up this morning. 51n park persidio to let's see who is the warm spot. and other neighborhood are running mainly in the low to upper 50s. we do have 60 for the warm spot and that's out around pittsburg. let's talk about your commute.

101 and 880 where it's clear and 57 degrees right now. if you're taking mass transit from the city to the burbs and breezy south of the bay bridge and that's where you'll find the biggest waves if you'r a ferry this afternoon. let's talk commute and return to jobina. hi, jobina, how are you this morning? >> hi, mike. thank you. i am doing well this morning and i'm glad to hear you are, too. >> fantastic. hi, everybody. good morning. so, our commute is looking good so far. but, obviously, it is early. so, i'll continue to check in on it for you. we'll start with a live look in emeryville and quite a few headlights towards the maze right now and nothing is slow. ever and i do have some drive times for you, too, to further illustrate that. tracy to dublin. the drive time 30 minutes. but i do want to let our commuters know if you're making your way through the altamont

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you're never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. >> this is abc7 mornings. >> a live look at what's goisf s lurking along the coast and make it cloudy as we head through the morning commute.

54 degrees. mid to upper 50s. same thing as we were yesterday. 60 at the coast and 61 noon to 4:00. a degree or two warmer there than yesterday. 71 to 76 and same thing around the bay and inland at noon and 78 to 85 a couple degrees warmer than yesterday. 71 to 79 wahat a frhireezesthe. walking. smallcraft advisory. the smallest winds south of the bay bridge today. look at palm springs, 111 today. thankfully that is staying away from us. kumasi. >> thank you, mike. a shocking crime in the sierra. a danville doctor shot to death and his 15-year-old son left lost in the forest. this all happened over the weekend in downieville over the weekend. the victim and his son were off roding. his son was able to escape and on his own for 30 hours before being found. police arrested a suspect yesterday but are still trying to figure out a motive. the suspect is also accused of

two other shootings. happening today, san francisco leaders will consider a ban on emergency calls that are based on discrimination. supervisor walton's proposal would prevent 911 calls based on ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation and that es calls like this encounter last month when a white couple confronted a man writing black lives matter in chalk outside of his pacific heights home. the white woman who called police has been charged with filing a false police report. amy cooper called 911 after the man asked her to leash her park in central park. the video went viral after cooper frantically was calling police and she ended up losing her job and now could face up to a year in prison if convicted. today oakland leaders will discuss how to prevent another incident like this. a fire truck caught in a crowd while responding to a 911 call.

it happened on the fourth of july near lake merritt. the fire truck was responding to a medical emergency and it never got there because it took 14 minutes to get through this crowd. >> when you see those flashing lights we're attending to an emergency, a 911 call and we need to cooperate as citizens, residents, neighbors, visitors. please allow our vehicles to get to the emergency because there's someone suffering. >> well, thankfully the patient survived on saturday thanks to an ambulance that was able to get there. the city is now considering more parking enforcement around lake merritt. a crackdown on fireworks and more education about wearing masks and social distancing. a little known lab in the east bay is beginning to generate data it hopes could have a dramatic effect on our shoreline. one of the reasons its little known could be its location. dan asscher explains it is

tucked away next to one of the busiest industrial centers in the bay area. >> reporter: nearly every day ships from around the world carry goods from in and out of oakland. in their shadow one tiny vessel is collecting the kind of cargo that could change the ecology of san francisco bay. >> yes an upside down floating reef. >> reporter: design architects from the college of the arts recently team would the port and marine research groups to launch the float lab. looking something like a small ufo that crash landed in the bay, the lab is actually a platform that's helping designers learn how to blend biology with architecture. since it was placed in the water near the port, the floating lab has been gathering small sea life that is key to the bay's food chain. >> a lot more under the water than one would assume from the landscape here. everything from oysters to crabs

to sea urchins. >> reporter: the tatiar their th on to. one prototype developed by students and faculty employs vertical reefs using materials that might be 3d printed or mixed with organic substances. >> so, we'll be able to test that to see if they will attach themself and then start to branch over column to column that we might really be able to build a sponge-like community. >> reporter: and being architects, the goal is to build from there. to develop structures that can be designed into big-ticket products all around san francisco bay like the major shoreline upgrades planned for embarcadero and already under way at chrissy field. a coming age of what some are calling >> dan ashley, abc7 news. >> that was really cool, mike.

>> yeah. >> you know -- >> people thinking so far outside the box there. >> and as long as it helps our precious earth, i'm down. >> yeah, earth really needs a break, doesn't it? >> that's a whole other conversation. the earth might be tired of us. >> right. and that's what i was going to say. it's very tired of us and kind of kicking us in the teeth a little bit right now, isn't it? i'll tell you what. let's take a look at what's going on weather wise. here you go with the short term. our litshi breaking out everywhe this afternoon. temperatures pretty close to average and a warming trend will begin tomorrow and not get out of control. we're talking about a degree or two every day before it peaks this weekend and winds will keep us from getting too far out of control and the hottest temperatures stay far down in the desert where they should and we'll get a little touch of that and see the cloud cover and a little bit along the east bay shore and also along the

peninsula coast this morning. look how quickly by noon that is almost gone and this afternoon we're looking at sunshine just about everywhere thanks to those dry winds, once again. so, we've got 70s sunnyvale and milpitas and low to mid 80s for the rest of the south bay and low to upper 70s and 72 to 78 is the spread along the peninsula and most of us in the mid 70s. 60 to 63 degrees along the peninsula coast and near 70 in downtown and south san francisco and sausalito. low 60s north bay coast and low to even a few upper 80s as you head from san rafael and along have low to upper 70s and 82 in pleasanton to about 90 in brentwood. pretty warm there. tonight we fall back into cloud cover with the same areas as this morning. by the time we get to the weekend, mid 60s at the coast and low to mid 80s at the bay and mid to low 90s inland. nothing out of control especially this time of year

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as we head to thursday temperatures creeping up and mid 60s in san francisco to mid 90s inland. kumasi. >> thank you, mike. colin kaepernick might not be working with any nfl team right now but working with one of the league's partners. disney has a deal with kaepernick's production company. he'll be featured in an exclusive docu series produced by espn films. focused on stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity and showcase the work of minority directors and producers. disney is the parent company of espn and abc7 news. well, we now know the schedule for this year's shortened mlb season. the oakland a' bent friday, july 24th. the players finally got on the field for their first team work out at the coliseum. the a's were hoping to get cleared to practice over the weekend, but the league did not account for the holiday, so, the covid-19 tests that they took never got to the lab.

here's the starting pitcher on the road ahead. >> every game is going to really, really count even more so this year. and i think it's a little extra motivation to get out there and, you know, compete each game and do as best as we can. it's going to be a challenge for sure. >> oakland's first road trip will be to seattle at the end of the month. and meanwhile the giants open in l.a. against the dodgers on july 23rd. all four games of their opening series will be nationally televised. three on our sister network espn. seven of our rivalry games will be on and threet oracle park. b bumgarner will return. six bay bridge series games. the first three in mid-aughere in san francisco and the second three at the coliseum in mid-september. all right. let's talk about what's going on. air quality got a little dicy

down around the crew's fire the last couple of days and especially into the central valley. a lot of that smoke vented there. you can see a lot of green across the map and our reporting stations down anywhere near the crew's fire are green. look at our reporting stations up near the fire around fairfield and cordelia. they are also green so far this morning. that's pretty good news considering the amount of smoke they were pumping out yesterday. i think it will stay in the green to moderate for the rest of today. kumasi. >> thank you, mike. coming up next at 5:00, police in one bay area city made nearly three dozen arrests over the weekend and all for the same thing. also confusion over restrictions and reopening plans. we know it's a lot. the back and forth between santa clara county and the state. leaders and lawmakers not immune. we're hearing from atlanta's mayor for the first t

building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc7 news. now at 5:00, a new worry for college students trying to adapt to this pandemic. some may have to leave the country if they don't have any in-person classes this fall. one option for international students who want to stay. fast-moving fires burning two of the big ones keeping crews busy this earlyern moi mo. >> good morning, everybody.

it's tuesday july 7th. just a reminder of how quickly things can happen when we have these strong winds. >> that's right. i hate to see that. i have to say, kumasi, i am loving your outfit today. >> thank you, friend. i appreciate that. >> they're all good. this is very nice. >> thank you. >> we have to start on positive note. i went for a run yesterday afternoon and it was really wild. >> good as advertised, wasn't it? we talked about how breezy it would be and those fires when they erupt and they're right near the highway and kind of apocalyptic sometimes you can feel the heat. i meant to ask kumasi if she could. we'll ask her later. the lower elevations around the mountain meadow fire. a west wind at 15. if you go up about 289 feet, look how fast the winds are