gust with winds and sweltering temperatures gripping the bay area during another record setting day. several wildfires have broken out as a red flag warpg extended to this weekend. as relief from the heat is final oi on the way. it is saturday, october 17th, thanks for being here, i'm julian glover. liz has the morning off. we want to get right t meteorologist. >> we do have that red flag warning until 8:00 this morning. the hills of the north bay. as we look at live doppler 7, yes, there isn't any low clouds or fog to help us out with that relative humidity. the highlighted areas from the north hills to the east bay

hills, northeast gusts could be anywhere from 20 to 40 miles an hour. relative humidity is dry, current check of the winds up to 37 miles an hour. mount st. helena, and mount diablo, 38 mile an hour gusts, they're strong. air quality is moderate. not a spare the air alert today, but there's an advisory and we go in the right direction tomorrow. winds will shift offshore to onshore later on today but just at the surface. temperatures right now, 68 in mt. diablo, 68 in walnut creek. down the road, half moon bay, you're in the 80s yesterday, yeah, that's right, 30 degrees cooler. so julian we're going to talk about our cooldown on the way for sunday and then a return to some more critical fire weather as we get to the week ahead. >> all right, thank you, lisa. we'll take the cooldown however

we can get it. >> developing news out of san jose. a double shooting left two men dead around 11:40 last night. three other people were shot but are expected to be okay. it's unclear what led to the shooting. we'll bring you any updates as soon as they come in. in san francisco, two people are dead and multiple others injured after two shootings. police say the first one happened before -- point boulevard. officers found a man around 45 to 50 years old suffering from a gunshot wound. he later died at the hospital. around 8:30 police say another shooting happened on sherwin street, a 33-year-old man died at the scene there, and three others were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. a pair of teens have admitted to starting this fast-moving brush fire in south san francisco yesterday. it started before noon yesterday on the south side of the historic sign hill.

abc 7 news >> reporter: five minutes to evacuate. that's all they got to say good-bye to 34 years of memories. >> the police said, you know, this is time to get out. you only got only like less than five minutes before everything could catch fire here. >> reporter: when they looked outside they noticed sign hill park in flames, his neighbors running to their cars. over 121 homes evacuated. their home was the only one directly impacted by the flames. >> the fire came through the grass there and the trees. >> reporter: next to the hillside -- flames five feet away from his house. >> i saw this like really big fire, a lot of smoke. i was like, oh, man, this is it. >> reporter: many neighbors alerted police of seeing two teenagers by the hillside minutes prior to the fire. >> whether it was accidental or purposeful, the weather encouraged the fire behavior to

get this big. >> reporter: south san francisco police confirmed a 14 and 16-year-old started the fire. quote, south san francisco detectives ultimately obtained statement from the juveniles who admitted to being responsible for starting the fire. the south san francisco fire marshall is now conducting an investigation. as hotter days are ahead many residents are asking for city officials to respond to a request that's been made for years. >> we have all this eucalyptus trees which they don't want to take down but this is our fire hazard area. >> reporter: in south san francisco, luce firefighters contained a wildfire on sign hill, and workers at nearby businesses raced to move their cars away from the fire. officials telling us thankfully no one was hurt. crews on the scene to keep hot spots from reigniting. in the north bay the grass fire delayed drivers on i-80 in

vacaville. the highway patrol actually closed the westbound lanes at 80 on midway road. firefighters contained the fire around 3:45 yesterday afternoon. all lanes reopened 45 minutes later. investigators are looking for what sparked that fire. now to some developing news, pg&e says it restored power to virtually all 41,000 customers who had their electricity cut off on wednesday. pg&e inspection crews claim they were fighting 30 instances the company was able to restore power 50% faster this time thanks to a larger fleet of helicopters doing the inspections. >> last year we had about 35 helicopters available. this year we have approximately 65 helicopters available. so far we've used about 40 of those. we're using them as needed. >> and listen to this right here, the utility says it recorded wind gusts as high as

73 miles per hour in sonoma county and 61 miles per hour in contra costa county. a surprising turn of events, fema has reversed a decision about disaster relief funds to help california wildfire victims. the administration said it initially refused the request because it did not meet the criteria for federal relief. so governor newsom decided to call the president to make a direct appeal. afterwards he tweeted that president trump had approved the state's dlars declaration request. >> we need to be mineful that these fires are not red fires, they are not blue fires. they don't know boundaries. they don't know political parties. the victims that are left behind have to be taken care of. >> cal fire says the fires this year have burned through 4 million acres already. a fema center for wildfire survivors of the scu lightning complex will open today in santa clara county. the mobile registration intake center is set up at the cal fire

smith creek fire station on 22805 mount hamilton road. hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily through october the 21st. it will be closed tomorrow, on sunday, october the 18th. the scu lightning complex burned nearly 400,000 acres in august and september before being contained on october the 1st. focused on reopening, not renaming. san francisco mayor london breed is slamming plans to change the names of dozens of schools. abc news reporter amanda dell castillo has the response. >> reporter: dianne feinstein elementary -- up for renaming discussion. an effort that started back in 2018. but friday, an audio shared by mayor london breed's office, a stern message, focus should be on reopening, not renaming. >> the vulnerable populations of this city are going to suffer

the most if we can't get our act together so i put out a statement because i am livid. i am livid. and now we're going to talk about renaming schools and we haven't even opened them. how offensive. >> those words coming just one day after she and a dozen other california mayors wrote state leaders urging them to safely reinstate in-person classes. state senator scott wiener throwing his support behind breed about timing. he has no objection considering whether certain schools should be renamed. >> it's going to consume a lot of school district time and bandwidth. i don't think it's the right thing to do that now. >> reporter: in a release board of education president mark sanchez responded. i want to assure you that reopening schools is in no way being held up by the community process the school renaming panel is engaged in. >> nothing should be on their agenda other than what is our plan and our timeline to reopen schools. we shouldn't even be having a conversation about anything else. >> reporter: i'm amanda dell

castillo, abc 7 news. the clemens high school in oakland has been given the all clear to reopen once classroom instruction is allowed again. back in february the school was shut down before the pandemic after the toxic chemical tce was found in the ground water beneath campus. long-term exposure can cause cancer. the air and water at the school have been tested. >> all the testing has shown that in classrooms and hallways and everywhere else on campuses is safe for kids to be, to be learning, to take part in athletics on the fields and the gym. >> the district says the chemical likely came from a nearby metal shop or dry cleaning facility. a group is planning a rally in protest against twitter and san francisco today. the rally is being called team save america free speech. the rec and parks department confirming the group did secure a permit from noon until 3:00. according to health requirements no more than 200 people will be

allowed and all must wear masks. police are implement safety measures for that event there. and here at -- we want to get a check in with meteorologist, a nice cooldown on this saturday. >> return to the sea breeze later on today and a live look outside. looks calm out there today, temperatures in the 50s and 60s. we have cooled down significantly since yesterday's records. today, well it's still hot inland but we'll talk about that cooling in detail around the coast and bay next. >> we like the sound of that, thank you, lisa. ahead, one bay area food bank is in desperate need of volunteers this week. details of how you can help. and, it's hard to believe with everything else happening in the world, but it is spooky season, yes, six flags, discovery kingdom's halloween event starts today. we'll give you a preview of what you we make it a mission to understand how you live. then, we make choices. ♪ ♪

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thanks for waking up with us on this saturday morning. the food bank urgently needs help this week to distribute food to half a million week receiving food assistance during the pandemic. second harvest and its partners have since opened 130 new drive through locations in san mateo countys. because of the increased locations there is a high demand for staffing. volunteers must be in good health and over 14 years old with a signed electronic permission slip, that's for if you're under 18. mocky the lemur is back in the san francisco zoo. kate larson has been on top of the story from the very start and reports there's now been an arrest. >> reporter: just like any other day 5-year-old james trin was leaving school with his mom when everything changed. right here he spotted a wild animal in the parking lot and called over his friends who were astonished to see a -- >> lemur.

>> reporter: james, brandon and sophie all kindergarten students at day school in daly city explained what happened next. >> then the lemur jumped over the gate and he was there. >> and then they called police, animal control. >> reporter: cell phone video taken thursday evening shows mocky wandering around the yard. eventually the endangered primate found comfort in this play house. >> what was he doing in there, james? >> playing. >> hiding. >> reporter: animal control and daly city police showed up and fortunately they had snacks for mocky who at 21 is very old in lemur years and requires constant feedings. it all started at the san francisco zoo where he was born and raised. on wednesday morning mocky was discovered missing from here, the lemur forest and police then opened a burglary investigation when they found the enclosure had been tampered with.

36 hours later this man was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting and stealing a getaway truck. they found photos on his cell phone. >> the cover officer -- take his kids to the zoo and heard the story. they put two and two together. >> it's kind of unbelievable. i just don't -- i can't understand it myself. >> reporter: zoo director tanya peterson announced they are giving hope looutian the $2,100 award. >> mocky is being quarantined away from the rest of his family but we also hope he gets better soon. cory mcgilloway booked on four felony charges, including burglary, grant they have had of an auto, looting. i'm kate larson, abc 7 news. many bay area school districts have worked hard to close the digital divide. the i-team found there's still a gap in distance learning when it

comes to who is attending class and who is not. abc 7 news i-team reporter melanie woodrow digs into the data. >> reporter: every weekday thousands of bay area students log into their classrooms. >> it's almost like we transformed under covid. what does it mean to make sure a child has basic access to education? >> reporter: it used to be making sure you got to school and had the right supplies. now it's having the right device, dexivity, bandwidth and a safe, quiet safe to learn uninterrupted. >> and not everyone is living in those kinds of housing conditions. >> reporter: hetty chang is the president and founder of attendance works, an organization whose mission includes reducing chronic absences. >> for one group of kids the kids who have access to technology, showing up to school is much easier than before. for another group of kids it's much harder because they don't have the technology, the internet, and so absences are going to be much more concentrated in those populations. >> reporter: data from san

francisco unified school district, oakland unified school district, and san mateo union high school district shows greater increases in absences during distance learning for some ethnic groups more than others. in san mateo district absences for pacific islander students increased nearly 16% this year. absences for mis panic students increased nearly 7%. the district says these groups have been disproportionately impacted by covid-19. high school students in these groups are more likely to be taking care of younger siblings, or working to help support their families. >> you know, something has to give. and one of the things that gives is being online during the school day. >> reporter: superintendent kevin selly says outreach workers are focused on increasing student engagement. >> visiting homes, talking to students, figuring out what we can do help. >> reporter: a similar picture emerges in oakland where absences by pacific islander students are up 7% as compared to last school year. ousd tells the i-team it's been

more difficult to reach this group of students during distance learning for the same reasons in san mateo, students taking care of smaller siblings or working to help support their families. ousd has contracted additional services to help outreach for pacific islander families. in san francisco, attendance for african-american students is down nearly 6.5%, and attendance for native hawaiian and pacific islander students is down more than 6%. sfusd says in partnership with uc berkeley has engaged in a research project to reduce absences. melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. we've been covering education all week long. you can read all of our building a better bay area education week stories again on abc7news.com. you can also watch them on the abc 7 news app. in the east bay children can now enjoy playgrounds across berkeley again after they were closed due to covid-19 restrictions since march. families are being asked to keep their visits under 30 minutes so it will be a short trip and

socially distance from people who are not part of their household. city workers have posted occupancy limits for specific play areas and equipment too. this is something fun to do with the family. six flags discovery kingdom believes it has the answer for a safe halloween celebration for the entire team this year. the theme park opens its boo 2020 halloween event today. friendly ghouls and goblins with festive halloween -- animals will be part of the displays this year. on the park toned down its halloween events this year so younger guests can enjoy it too. >> we wanted to create a new event that's more accessible to families. so that everyone can come and enjoy the park. so this is more of a family friendly event, less scary event. it's going to be a daytime event. >> and you know the drill, social distancing, and masks are required. six flags says the attraction meets or exceeds cdc guidelines

on safety. meteorologist lisa argen joins us now for a look at the forecast. lisa, the idea of going to abamusement park, yesterday as hot as it was, cooler today. >> you know, everybody was in the 90s, except sonoma county airport, 101. so we had temperatures well above average. we should see numbers around 70 this time of year. we're going to be cooler, but we're still going to be well above average today. no help from our marine layer. it's going to come in the form of a weak onshore flow later on today but also this big dome of high pressure is continuing to slide to the east so there's a look at live doppler 7 where you'll notice it's fog free. 58 if cupper tee know. it is 76 in the los altos hills. go up in height and it's warm and dry. 61 in santa clara. 56 in mountain view and 67 in san francisco. that's warm obviously for san

francisco. 51 up in nevada. we've cooled in spots but even on the coast here, it's warm, 52 half moon bay. relative humidity, notice we're anywhere from about 15% to 20% in the hills. that's where we're the driest and most concerned because when we have those north, north easterly winds, things blow around and that's how we can start some fires. as we look at the air quality right now it is good out there and we'll be looking at not only warm temperatures today, but not as warm. so it's going to take another day for us to really cool off, a live look outside here, a nice view from our tower camera, clear conditions, heat will ease today near the beaches and around the bay and looking at that spread -- that cooling spreading inland tomorrow. now, the fog returns in part overnight tonight into your monday, but then it looks like we're going to see a return to some of those offshore winds we get into the middle of the week. here's a look right now, once again, mount st. helena up to 30

mile an hour winds, is getting stronger. these are ease up, the red flag warning set to expire after 8:00 for the upper elevations and that should allow for conditions to not get any worse. certainly not get any better because we're just going to add to the warmth today once again. as we get through the morning hours. overnight tonight the fog wants to return and it will be patchy along the coast. this is 7:00 tomorrow night. it's really going to take its time and where it does return it will be right at the shoreline. as we get into your highs tomorrow on sunday, low 90s. so a little bit better here inland. 60s and 70s around the bay. and notice the streamlines here, these are the winds coming up from the south. so that certainly is going to bring some relief to the coast. this is your monday. 60s and 70s with upper 80s to near 90 inland. that's still cooler and by tuesday still hot with those 90s inland. unfortunately not going to feel

really fall like out there and it looks like we're going to stay dry until the end of the month. unfortunately, no rain in the forecast in the extended outlook. 87 today in oakland. that is still well above average but down from the 90s yesterday, 89 in fremont, look for 92 in san jose. still warm in the south bay. only a couple degrees of cooling for you as well as santa rosa up in the north bay. but san francisco, it was 92 yesterday there. also half moon bay. so you're cooler, upper 70s to low 80s in the accuweather seven-day forecast looking at fog reforming tonight into tomorrow. so today, still the hottest day out of the next seven. as we cool off into monday, unfortunately we reverse that trend, warming up again tuesday and wednesday as that offshore flow comes back. can't seem to get rid of it but that big dome of high pressure is still wanting to hang out with us through the end of the month, julian. unfortunately we'll enjoy the small little steps we take for some slightly cooler conditions through the weekend. >> any chance that the ac can get a break, we'll take it if

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this is abc 7 news. good morning, thanks so much for being here on a saturday. we want to get right to meteorologist lisa argen this half hour who has some good news for us that we should get a bit of a cooldown this week. >> you're right, julian, we have a red flag warning lasting for a couple more hours in the hills of the north and east bay. highlighted here for you, and you can see that this is where we're concerned once again. it's just rewind, repeat with

those north-northeast winds gusting to near 40 miles an hour. that's exactly what we have in spots and the relative humidity below 20%. right now mount st. helena, and straight out of the north, that's allowing for that dry air to blow round, which is certainly what we don't need. now, the next couple of days air quality will improve. today it's going to be moderate, we'll see return to a slight southerly flow and that onshore push will cool us down, improve the air quality as we look into the week ahead which also will bring slightly cooler air. current check of the numbers, 50s and 60s for most, upper elevations in the 70s. we're at 61 in oakland. you notice the 67 in san francisco, it's cooled off significantly at the coast, yesterday in the 80s, half moon bay this time we are much cooler, with 31 degrees cooling. so as we go through the day today it's going to be a warm start for some of you in the morning hours, and then by the afternoon we'll curb that heating to the low to mid-90s

inland. still warm out there, but look at the 70s at the coast. more than 8 million americans have been infected with covid-19 and nearly 219,000 have died from it. as we head into cooler temperatures with cases increasing across much of the nation, health experts are concerned. abc news reporter karina mitchell has more. >> reporter: cases in the u.s. have increased by double digits this week according to an internal memo from the department of health and human services, deaths also on the rise. more than 218,000 americans dead from the virus. including 51-year-old veteran and ems first responder jerry jones. one day earlier his 41-year-old sister also lost her life to covid-19. >> i had to call jerry's mom and tell her that her child didn't make it after the day before she had gotten the phone call about her daughter not making it. two blows, two devastating

blows. those were their only children. >> but new hope in the race for a vaccine this week, pfizer saying they could have one ready for emergency authorization after the third week of november. in the meantime experts are warning we need to think twice about family gatherings. dr. anthony fauci speaking at the johns hopkins university health policy forum yesterday. >> we're going to start doing a lot of things more indoors, rather than outdoors. >> at least 38 states battling a rise in cases, 39 with an increase in hospitalizations. yesterday former new jersey governor chris christie urgedeers to wear a mask after he didn't while on the president's debate team. testing positive and spending seven days in the icu. >> i let my guard down. leaders all across politics, sports, the media, should be saying to people, put your masks on and be safe until we get a vaccine that can help to protect

us, completely. >> reporter: six days out of the hospital. he says he's still not feeling 100%. karina mitchell, abc news, new york. the stakes are high to protect nearly 40 million californians from getting infected, and spreading covid-19. both apple and google have been working on providing tools to do mobile app contact tracing, however privacy and getting the public to opt in can be difficult. abc 7 news reporter david louie looks into the challenges to improve health outcomes. >> utah was first in the nation last april to rule out a smart phone app to do covid contact tracing, nearly six month later the healthy together app is used by 94,000 of its residents as ucsf conducts a pilot test of a tracing app challenges lie ahead. a survey indicates roughly half, 52%, are willing to share tracking data in an app while 28% are unwilling. 20% are willing only with privacy protection. that falls far short of what

experts say is needed. >> to get the level of benefit that would be needed to bring the pandemic fully under control you would need high levels of participation in 60% to 80%. >> the survey showed nine out of ten wung anemia ages 18 to 24 are willing to use contact tracing apps but the number drops to 63% among seniors the demographic difference could impact a goal of such apps. >> at 75% adoption of digital contact tracing we'd get the benefits we need, between 56% and 81% reduction in infections and the same level in deaths. >> still, a high rate -- providing symptom assessment tools which is being done at brigham young university. >> if you think you have symptoms you can know right there where do i go to get tested and does my insurance cover it and you can get your results back much more quickly. >> healthy together doesn't allow users to see if their

insurance covers testing but cares act funding for test results. there are potential hurdles. mobile app contact tracing is worth pursuing. >> there's going to be another virus and wouldn't it be great to have a system like this stood up in time for it to be actually helpful in preventing the losses we've seen this time around. >> david louie, abc 7 news. a bus driver with the valley transportation authority for 13 years became the agency's first employee to pass away from covid-19 complications, but now there are questions as to how she became infected. since the start of the pandemic the vta reports that 27 of its nearly 2,100 employees have tested positive for the virus. bart reported 34 cases among its nearly 4,200 employees. sfmta says 74 of its approximately 6,000 workers has the virus. abc 7 news reporter chris nguyen has more from san jose. >> reporter: after a length think battle audrey lopez was the first employee to die from

covid-19 earlier this week. >> she was still above and beyond her grand babies were her world. >> lopez's daughter ashley lozano believes her mother contracted the virus while on the job. >> she never took off her mask. she never wanted to go anywhere. she would go to work and home. like she would have groceries or whatever she needed. we would have it delivered. >> reporter: but the vta says a workers' comp investigation found no connection between lopez's infection in august and her role with the agency. since the start of the pandemic 27 vta employees have tested positive for covid-19. a number which also includes workers who don't interact with the public. three of them are still recovering from the virus. >> we are providing grief counselors for our employees and have reached out to the lopez family with our deepest condolences. >> reporter: infectious disease experts believe public transit

is relatively safe as long as precautions are taken, such as mask wearing and social distancing. >> intermediate risk compared to being totally outdoors, to a crowded indoor event or a crowded bar or restaurant. >> reporter: union president john courtney of atu local 262 agrees with that assessment, and says the vta has been receptive to some of the feedback from his members in regards to keeping operators and customers safe. however, he, too, believes that lopez was infected while at work. >> we have to do what we have to do. to honor our sister, audrey. and we are not going to stop fighting for audrey. and audrey's family. >> reporter: a gofundme account has been set up on lopez's behalf to raise money for her funeral. >> she wouldn't want anybody to go through this. >> reporter: in san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. and new this morning bart says it could make layoffs and service cuts as it deals with ongoing safety concerns and budget crisis.

according to the chronicle the agency is now rolling out a money-saving plan that includes employee retirement incentives. service cuts are also under consideration as ridership remains low. management predicts it will not rise to past levels until july of 2022. bart's board of directors will discuss the plan to tackle the budget crisis at a meeting on thursday. and still ahead on abc 7 mornings, screams, scares and thrills. all from the safety of your car. the haunted house experience that's so 2020. we have a live look at our emeryville camera right now as we send you to break here. 64 degrees as you wake up in the city this morning, and we are expecting another warm day but not as warm as the last week or so. meteorologist lisa argen back in a second with that forecast.

happening today the contemporary jewish museum in

san francisco will reopen to the public for the first time since shutting down in march. all visitors will be required to wear a face covering. visitors are encouraged to buy tickets online in advance to ensure contactless check-in. the layout has been adjusted to reduce capacity. surfaces cleaned regularly. and disinfected. touch free hand sanitizer stations located throughout the building. trying to keep everyone safe there. also today in san francisco, the kickoff to china town music weekend. there will be live music for visitors during dining outdoors and shopping on grand avenue between sacramento and commercial street. artists fkd alfred -- the future twin and betty look. tony lee, and more on sunday. so go check it out. plenty of stuff to do this weekend. 5:41 right now. we check back in with lisa. julian, we are starting out with cool temperatures but you saw that 67 in san francisco. so still warm in spots and then upper elevations we have a red

flag warning through 8:00. so we're still certainly concerned about all of that dry air blowing around our -- above our heads but later on today a return to an onshore flow and that means cooler weather for some. we'll talk about particulars in just a few minutes with accuweather seven-day forecast. also up next we're still waiting to see who will duke it out for the world series. how a battle between two will smiths turned the tide for the dodgers against the braves. chris alv we make it a mission to understand how you live. then, we make choices. ♪ ♪ choices to make beautiful homes smart, which is beautiful. ♪ ♪ we also make beautiful things more affordable. ♪ ♪ we try to make choices to put back what we take out. oh! and we can also make kitchen fronts out of plastic bottles now. so why do we choose to make things the way we do? because the better the choices we make in here, the better off we'll all be out there. ikea. make the dream yours.

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here's abc 7 sports anchor chris alvarez with the details in this morning's sports. good morning, your 2020 world series matchup had a chance to be set on friday. tampa bay trying to close out the astros. if the dodgers lost, atlanta clinches a spot in the fall classic for the first time in more than 20 years. would dave roberts keep his job if that happened? braves up 2-0 early. sinking to right, and mookie betts makes a great catch, off the grass, so nice we show it twice. braves don't add to their lead. that is key. sixth inning, former giants closer will smith facing dodgers catcher will smith, first time same names have ever faced each other postseason and the catcher gets jiggy with it. three run blasts to left, 4-2 dodgers, top seven, blue crew, blows it open, corey seager launching his second homer of the night. they win 7-3 and there's going to be a game six. >> we're never going to quit. you've got to play a full game.

win four, first to four. we live to fight another day. >> alcs from san diego. down three to none. top five. houston down 1-0. beat the analytics, george springer ground ball. four run fame without a home run. valdez cruising, he struck out nine in six innings. mike za knee know snapping the bat in frustration for tampa bay. kyle tucker believes the yard as well. he left his manager hanging on the high-five. astros win 7-4. winner take all game seven, could it be destiny? >> we're not through writing history and i'm hoping we can have a happy ending to this historic -- need a lot of credit. but i don't deserve any of it. they deserve it. >> sad day for the sharks.

joe thornton signs a one-year deal with the toronto maple leafs. jumbo joe spent 15 years in teal. 23rd nfl season, the 41-year-old active leader in points but never won a stanley cup. not necessarily a full good-bye. patrick marleau did that sharks to lease thing and back trip. do you remember this? >> travisish cause with a, hits one into right. the giants win the pennant. >> six years to the date on friday, the giants their third world series in five years with this pennant winning home run. the giants won the world series of course and ended in a memorable thrilling game against the royals -- by bum gardener's performance in game seven. good times indeed. 64 degrees, waking up to, already here in the city. warm start to the morning. but i think we're waking up to around 71 degrees yesterday, lisa, and the city was hotter in

sf than it was in san jose, this windy weather pattern. >> totally crazy, all due to offshore winds and we are in the 80s, half moon bay yesterday morning. big changes this morning, what we like to see, but unfortunately still under a red flag warning for us here locally, above a thousand feet but i'm going to show you what is going on to the east of us. we're under this big dome of high pressure but look at this, cold air spilling into parts of the northern plains, not only that, look at minneapolis. they've got some snow to the north of them, numbers in the 30s and in chicago. waking up to temperatures in the upper 30s. but we can't get a piece of any of this. and unfortunately our numbers are very, very mild. we're dry. it looks like we're going to stay that way for the foreseeable future. it is 67 in san francisco. so that certainly is warm. 71 in oakland. but we do have those 50s up to the north here in santa rosa, 58 in fremont. calm winds out by the delta but upper elevation winds, this is where we're watching for the

next couple of hours with winds anywhere from 30 to 32 miles an hour. on top of our highest peaks. and then you add in that dry air, anywhere from 15% relative humidity in oakland to 19% throughout the alta mountain pass and you get the idea this time of year we can't get a break. fortunately a little bit of a break is on the way with onshore breeze. the heat will ease at the beach and on the bay. more so for sunday, looking at the fog returning to the coast but don't get too excited. we're not going to look at a big, big cooldown, in fact those winds are going to shift again as we get into tuesday and wednesday. here's a look at where we should be, 70s out there to the upper 70s in livermore and then the orange column indicates the above average temperatures today. it's cooler but still 15 to 18 degrees cooler with those low 90s in napa and san jose. mid-90s yesterday so not a whole lot of cooling there for you. we wouldn't even call it cooling. but in the city we're coming out

of those low 90s to the low 80s. and as we look at redwood city you're in the low 90s so about five degrees cooler for you over in oakland too, about five to seven degrees cooler. in the south bay today, another warm one in san jose at 92, 95 and morgan hill, 88 in cupertino, upper 80s, mid-90s on the peninsula, the weak sea breeze returning. 78 in the sunset. 90s widespread along the coast the past few days. certainly incredible to see that, even the fair lawn islands were really hot yesterday. 94 in sonoma, 95 santa rosa, so still very warm here with that row relative humidity. 87 in oakland. 88 in union city. warm day for our east bay but not as warm as it's been. inland, not a whole lot of change, coming down three degrees. hot temperatures with the numbers in the 90s. the accuweather seven-day forecast, so we're looking at

that moderate air quality, 70s coast, 80s around the bay, mid-90s inland, that's certainly an improvement. tomorrow, even more widespread cooling for your folks inland, and then as we get towards our monday, that's the coolest day out of the next seven, slowly warming it up again tuesday and wednesday. with that offshore flow returning. it should be on the light side, though, and then looking towards the end of the week, yes, it will be cooler, but no, not getting any rain in here anytime soon. julian? >> thank you, lisa. halloween might be different this year because of the pan dem ck by plenty of fun and scary things to do. a haunted house drive-through in pleasanton is delivering the ultimate halloween treat. >> how you all doing? come on down, we've got rats on a stick. >> the pirates haunted drive-through here at the alameda county fair fwrounds. i don't think there's anything quite like this out there. we have trick or treat town, hill billies, pirates,

>> definitely thought halloween was going to be cancelled but this brings the great spooky season back to us. >> there's scares, there's laughs. especially when people start busting out real chain saws. >> it's fun. >> this year has really changed a lot. we have this piece of glass in between us now, in a car in a vehicle, before you were able to get in people's faces and it was really an in your face kind of haunted house. we've all had to change in this covid time. we want everybody to be safe hchlt. >> we had to pivot, redesign and we had a couple peeks to put it in our head to make it drive tloou. something on every corner for you to see. that's what it's all about, right, screams and laughs. >> yup, about like that. >> pirates of emmerson started on emmerson street in the city of fremont. we started in my parent's

backyard. after our seventh year we had 3,000 people through in two nights and the city shut us down. we either had to quit doing it or go commercial. so we got ourselves a tent and we moved out and the rest is history. here we are 29 years later, taking up the pirates of emerson haunted drive-through. you're driving through the houses, driving through the pirate ships and you're driving through the hill billies house. >> with the whole pandemic going on and stuff, it's a good gig. >> i'm used to the walk through ones and halloween is my favorite time of year. keep the tradition alive. why not try a drive-through one. >> we have over 45 people on staff this year. every one of them is enthusiastic about being here. they were all afraid, maybe halloween would be cancelled this year and we didn't let that happen and we're not going to let that happen to the bay area. come on out. >> tunnels are really scary. they follow your car, they jump out, it's fun. >> drive through and enjoy it. >> i knew it would work. in my head and my heart i knew it would work. just watching these cars drive

through, one after another and watching them enjoy it themselves, it's a good feeling. really happy and we're very proud of the event that we put together this >> where there is a will, there is a way. you can watch more stories like this one on the new localish network. it's available on these channels right on your screen. 7.2 if you have an antenna, also find them on all of localish sne social media pages as well. next up, dinner and a drive-in, enjoy a good meal and a

happening today in san francisco, the first night of pier 70's dinner and a drive-in movie series. tonight's film is "blade runner," the movie starts at 8:00 p.m. each ticket comes with two meals. the menu includes authentic

mexico city street tacos and lots of other festive foods. it promotes equity in business ownership and local film houses. the next showings are saturday october the 24th and the 31st. but just for $65 not a bad deal at all. dinner and a movie for two. next up, a fast moving fire burns 15 acres in south san francisco. we speak to a family affected by the flames. and mayor london breed is blasting efforts to change the names of dozens of schools. her push to put focus on reopening, not renaming. >> we're sad, we will still stand up. >> we're tired but we won't give up. >> we are angry, but we will still take action. >> we're all equal. >> our voices are better, stronger together. >> at abc 7, we're listening to

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kaiser permanente. thrive. gusty winds and sweltering temperatures grip the bay area during another record-setting day. several wildfires broke out as a red flag warning has now been extended into the weekend. this as relief from the heat, thankfully, is on the way. good morning, it's a saturday, october the 17th, i'm julian glover, liz has the morning off. it's 6:00 as you join us right now. we want to look at the forecast with meteorologist lisa argen. high fire danger but cooler temperatures, lisa. >> that's right, a couple more hours for our red flag warning in the upper elevations of the north and east bay until about 8:00 and then we are expecting a return to a sea breeze. but right now we are still looking at those winds gusting into the upper 30 mile an hour range aroundnt