thunderstorm collapses, the possibility of locally gusty winds out of that. so they have really messy almost the worst conditions you could put out there for the firefighters. and this is our excessive heat watch, it goes from noon friday through 9:00. and more of the santa clara valley was added and north bay as well. and there it goes until technically 7:00 sunday. either way, we're talking building temperatures mid-90s to almost 110 degrees. look at that, lack of clouds this morning. that means the warming trend is getting even more robust today. we'll have those numbers coming up. and as more classes resume around the bay area, education and keeping our kids safe takes on an even bigger role in building a better bay area. distance learning starts today for many students in contra costa county and for money any u that means a change in your morning routine. amy hollyfield is live with more

on this. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, i can't help but look at this sign behind me and think about what the first day of school is supposed to look like here in these hallways filled with excitement and nerves. but of course no one will be here, everyone will be at home. orinda, san ramon valley and la fayette all starting distance learning today, all those districts sending out messages about how this will be different but they plan to get through it together. school officials say they have worked hard on preparing distance learning and that it will be an improvement from what parents and students experience in the spring. they will mostly be in front of their computers receiving real time alter it em based especially b the age. >> we'll be making sure that we have a balance so kids aren't on a computer screen all day long. and the biggest thing is that it is looking at what developmentally is appropriate for a student.

so we'll have less time on a computer with the young than we would a fifth grader. >> reporter: and they will include group learning. and they have beached up the resources available for parents. administrators say they realize this is not ideal, but that everyone will do the best they can. reporting live in la fay etd, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. and words of reassurance along with a warning from governor newsom as the state shows some progress in the battle against covid-19. yesterday the governor said more than half of tuesday's 11,645 cases were backlogged cases as a result of the recent data glitch. and that decrease in state hospitalizations is encouraging, but californians are still not doing enough. >> we're the not minimizing it that here we are making all this progress and it could be done away, you know, day two, a week

or two, people begin to let your guard down. you can't let your guard down. >> the governor also emphasized that the state is pushing the federal government to fund an extension in unemployment benefits ordered by president trump. it is also still working to get financial aid for businesses. kaiser permanente is getting involved in advance trials for a covid-19 vaccine. kaiser sites in california and oregon will test a vaccine. and one of the clinical trials is being conducted in oakland. the goal is to enroll up to 30,000 participants at more than 120 sites around the world, enrollment for that trial hasn't started yet. and abc 7 news is featuring a special series of stories and guest interviews exploring the bay area's role in possibly testing of vaccines. you can catch it on abc 7 news on our app and on our website

this week. your voice, your vote. happening today, joe biden and his running mate senator kamala harris will receive a briefing from public health experts on the coronavirus pandemic. with social distancing and masks, biden and harris held their first joint event yesterday and it was unlike anything we've witnessed before in politics. liz kreutz has the highlights. >> reporter: wearing matching black masks and keeping their social distance in a crowdless high school gymnasium, joe biden and kamala harris appeared together for the very first time as democratic running mates. >> let me introduce t for the first time your next vice president of the united states, kamala harris. >>. >> joe, i'm so proud to stand with you. and i do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me. >> reporter: biden and harris both outlined their vision for the future drawing sharp

contrasts between their ticket and president trump and attacking his response to covid-19. >> when other countries are following the science, trump pushed miracle cures he saw on fox news. >> reporter: biden acknowledged the historic nature of their campaign. >> this morning all across the nation little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities, but today, today just maybe they are seeing themselves for the first time in a new way. >> reporter: harris' vice presidential candidacy also putting a spotlight on california. ghoo governor newsom reflected on what the pick means to him. poi being a californian, but glowrog up in san francisco, it doesn't surprise me at all that some of our great leaders nancy pelosi being top among them emanate

from that extraordinary city. >> reporter: harris called the daughter of oakland says it is her immigrant parents from india and jamaica that make her who she is today. >> that is how they met as students in the streets of okay land marching for this thing called justice. and my mother raised my sister and me to believe that it was up to us and every generation of americans to keep on marching. >> reporter: in san francisco, liz kreutz, abc 7 news. and there are less than 12 weeks before election kay. you can find political stories at abc7news.com, you can read them and hopefully share them with your friends. going back into the classroom, we know it has its risks, but it may not be as bad as we think. what rearchers believe will protect teachers and students. and this was such a close call on the tracks. coming up next, we'll see the

moment a police officer pulls this man to safety. mike, it had me like -- >> my heart almost stopped. i gasped. you stop breathing, you are so tense watching it and then goi wow, wh go wow, what a hero that officer was. hi, everybody. not sure i want to show you this forecast. don't get mad at the messenger, it will get hot almost everywhere. and unfortunately, it will get warmer during the overnight hours. so the recovery will be minimal for a lot of us. this morning we're okay. we have temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s. 3 57 to 62, partly cloudy along the east bay shore. and here you can see it is pretty comfortable up in the north bay. 50 in novato, but 60s in the east bay and the into the south bay. those temperatures are already showing the change that will happen during the afternoon, evening and overnight hours. you can see they are a little

warmer than yesterday. so let's take a look at our three hottest microclimates. in the south bay, 67 this morning. 87 by noon. low 90s for a couple hours and then high clouds start to roll in and we still stay warm, 80 by 11:00. in fact the high clouds will blanket us tonight and keep us warmer. north bay, 85 at noon, low to mid-90s this afternoon. and hottest temperatures in the east bay, we'll try not to get to 100, but i can't promise it. definitely starting tomorrow 100s will be the rule in your future for six, seven days possibly. we'll take a look at those overnight warmer temperatures coming up in the yetn in the ac day forecast. hi, jobina. >> hi, mike. good morning, everyone. so we'll check in on a live look at the golden gate bridge. we do have a fog advisory issued by the chp.

you can see the headlights glaring for sure. so take your time this morning. we do not have any major crashes on our roads for the early commute, so that is good news. and drive times, highway 4 to the maze, 15 minutes. it will take you 7 minutes to getting across the bay bridge traveling westbound. and san francisco to s squeeze in. pull up a chair.

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let's show you the lack of low clouds from the bay bridge toll plaza, areas that had been getting drizzle pretty much nonexistent. we'll see a late push of some clouds, but they won't live but an hour or two today. it is already warm to hot by noon. mid to upper 60s at the coast later today while we're hitting the mid-80s to near 100 around our bay and inland. and still 70s and 80s at 8:00. chance of thunderstorms today and also tomorrow. and as we head into the weekend up in the sierra, and that is one of the reasons why there will be a heightened fire danger there. nearly three-quarters of the state are under some type of dangerous heat warning and look at the humidity bubbling up from the south, that will bring us a chance of thunderstorms in the 7 day forecast. and for the first time ever, airbnb is seeing a guest for

violating its ban on unauthorized house parties. and here is why. last weekend three people were shot at a party inside an airbnb in sacramento .the company says it will seek monetary damages and go nature thdonate them to . airbnb banned open invite parties last year after five people were shot and killed at an unauthorized party in orinda. we can be scare require, but there is a report that could help assure adults. lianna len dee a lyanne melendez has the story. >> reporter: and inside my nose, i have two receptors that is how the virus gets into my boston.

but children don't produce the ace 20 receptors as frequently as i do. >> the implication is that if there is no door for the disease to get in, then there is no or limited disease in elementary age students. so that is why we're seeing that pattern. >> reporter: and elementary school kids also have smaller lungs so when they sneeze or cough, they don't spread the particles as far as high school students or adults do. another interesting fact is that size does matter. kids are shorter and their viral particles drop to the floor which means they can't spread upward towards the adults in the room. perhaps the most important point that ucsf wants to make is that ventilation is key to the kifsh of t spread of the virus. >> and it is not that can't get it, it is that the severity of the illness is lower, which

means that anybody including teachers would be less likely to have a bad illness with it. >> reporter: lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. and we spent a week focused on education issues as students go back to school. and all of those stories are available on abc7news.com and on our connected tv apps. so wherever you watch abc 7 news, you can find our special back to school ongoing coverage. in the south bay, touch-free crosswalk significant naturals have been installed at multiple intersections. abc 7 saw a tech operator putting them in yesterday. they give people the option of w vi to pressis mnshare tead being spread through touch. the touchless signal devices are being installed at 25 of the busiest intersections in

santiago scl sachbt clai st. clara county. a police officer is being called a here row for pulli her in a wheelchair out of the palt path of a train. >> get up, get up, get up! i need an ambulance now. >> oh, my goodness. so here is a little bit of background. officer urea was near lodi avenue yesterday morning and you can see from her body cam she saw this man, his wheelchair was stuck in the tracks. she ran over there risking her life to save his. the 66-year-old mt leede kay.

and mike, he is alive. >> you just have to act, you can't like -- you have to. i'm happy she was able to get there in time. >> fight or flight and she fought. and that was amazing. you know what the best thing is, we have social media hard a time because there is so much trolling going on, but i was looking at all the comments under that and people were like amazed, a hero. and then the third tweet is where is the gofundme page so we can replace his wheelchair because that was a specialized wheelchair. and it warmed my heart. and also got my adrenalin going last night. so looks like everybody will be okay. and we have heat and high clouds increasing today. i'm watching humidity and dangerous heat and that will combine to-to-bring bring us s

nights. and it will himself bring us a slight chance of thunderstorms, and that could mean lightning without rain. right now it looks like most of this will remain offshore like you are seeing right now. for us hopefully it stays offshore so we don't have to worry about a red flag warning. we have upper 80s to low 90s, 87 to even 94 in los gatos today. as far as the peninsula go, 77 in millbrae and then low to upper 80s on the peninsula. upper 60s at the coast, and low to mid-70s in downtown, south san francisco and sausalito. even north bay coast hits the mid to upper 60s today and 90s throughout the valleys. along the east way shore, richmond, berkeley and oakland in the 70s. ifsh el everybody else low to mid-80s.

and triple digits, first of possibly seven days inland. and look at these lows, a lot are 50s. and here is the accuweather 7 day forecast. the most dangerous heat will be friday, tomorrow. saturday some record highs are responsible. but still in the mid-80s around the bay. some neighborhoods in the 90s and 100s all the way through next wednesday. it looks like our warmest days at the coast will be tomorrow and saturday. that is quite a stretch of warm weather. >> definitely is. part of building a better bay area means focusing on the economy. and a new report shows that it will take a while for the bay area's tourism industry to rebound from the pandemic. projections by san francisco travel indicate that spending by people making day trips to the bay area is down 52% from this time last year. spendi spending on overnight trips is down an incredible 82%. even analysts say it will be a few

years until it gets back to normal. they expect to see small and medium size gatherings to return next year, and large events could return in the second quarter if the pandemic is eases up and likely that will be centered around a vaccine. coming up next, the honor today for a local artist who gained international fame for her unique creations. also, look at this. turkey trouble in the east bay, so strong. so... not ripped.

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words of encouragement and empowerment on day two of the professional business women of california conference. it is virtual this year. six speakers, 18 seminars on the agenda. and speakers including mayor breed, cate blanchett and lisa ling. and i had the honor of hosting yesterday. we also did a meet and greet and i got to introduce the mayor. >> when we are united, we can and will transform our vision of representation from aspiration to actuality. >> abc 7 is a proud media partner of the conference which aims to help build skills and inspire women to be the very best they can be. and mike, it is kind of cool, like it is a change hosting an event like this and doing it all virtually, but i still think the speakers and being a part of it, you still really get that

feeling and the intention of just with inspiring women, connecting even though it was virtual. and i'm excited about that. >> the message is still the same and just as powerful. and i don't know if you feel less disconnected because they are like right there on your computer than you would if you were in the audience? i don't know. it is all going to be good though and we hear great things about it. good luck to everybody involved. let's talk about the lack of cloud cover this morning. here is a look at your fog forecast. you can see there is a little bit trying to slip through the golden gate bridge and trying to make it to the east bay during the morning k3450u9. b commute. but it will retreat back to the coast. and watch the high clouds, that is the humidity starting to creep in. and it is the high clouds and will make the morning so warm, but look what it does in the

afternoon hours, 111 in fairfield, are you kidding me? and then the 100s just keep marching on as we head through the weekend. that is why it will be dangerous. >> thank you, mike. there is some turkey trouble in oakland. a long time resident of the rose garden gerald the turkey has been kind of fussy lately let's just a battle between residents and state and local officials about gerald's next move. a park was recently closed for a time because gerald was just too aggressive. the city of oakland is trying to capture him now. look at him. what is he doing? is he waiting for someone? anyway, the department of fish and wildlife has permission from an east bay property owner to relocate gerald there if they catch him. but the move to the east bay hills isn't good enough for gerald's many supporters. >> he has been part of this

community for a long time and over 13,000 people signed our petition to save his life and allow for relocation if that is needed. >> and after weeks of trying, turkey catchers have track down the elusive chargera. how come everybody has all these pictures of him then? coming up next, a life without uber and lyft could become a reality for a while here in california. the threat from the companies if they lose a court battle. and the race to find a covid-19 vaccine, the new trial with participants right here in the bay area. and developing in the east bay, roads still closed this morning after multiple water main breaks. and we just got

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now at 5:00, rideshare shutdown, the court battle that uber and lyft say if they lose came take them offline in california for a while. the race to find a coronavirus vaccine. the bay area's big role and a new trial getting under way this month. good morning, it is thursday, august 13. reggie, we're almost to friday, friend. >> almost there. kumasi, did you do the morning announcements in high school? >> i did a few times. >> you realize that we're still

doing it, right? >> and that is okay. >> no, that's good. >> i didn't think about that. >> it really reframgs tes the w thing in your mind, though, didn't it in. >> yeah. >> good morning, mike, you're late to class. >> me? never. >> sorry, i was projecting myself and throwing it back to you. >> seriously, if i ever was, i would be with wet hair and smell like chlorine and that would be the reason i would actually be late to class because, you know, i've been getting up early most of my life even though i'm not an early rice e riser technical. swimming before high school. wish i could find a leisurely pool. there are lap pools out there, but you only get like 45 minutes to an hour and you're supposed to keep moving.