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 around mount st. helena

and mt. diablo, 29 mile an hour wind gusts above a thousand feet, mt. tam, 22 miles an hour. so the low relative humidity and the dry conditions out there, good thing, though, the air quality isn't bad. we are looking at those warm numbers, in the upper elevations, 60s and 70s. but half moon bay has cooled to 54. it is 50 in nevada. look at that santa rosa, down to 49 degrees. anywhere from two to 27 degrees cooler this morning. so without those east winds blowing as strong, yes, the temperatures are coming down. so 60s at 9:00. our red flag warning will have expired and by noontime we're in the 80s inland. it's another warm day with low 90s there. by the afternoon. but we are cooler at the coast, and bay with that weak onshore flow and more widespread cooling. we'll talk about sunday and the week ahead coming up. julian? >> thank you, lisa. now to some developing news as you wake up with us this

morning in san jose. police are investigating a double shooting. two men are dead. happened around 11:40 last night on south capital avenue. three other people were shot but are expected to be okay. it's unclear what led up to the shooting. of course we'll bring you any updates as soon as we get them this morning. and in san francisco, two people are dead and multiple others injured after two shootings. police say the first shooting happened just before 8:00 last night in the bay view on hunters point boulevard. officers found a man around 45 to 50 years old suffering from a gunshot wound. he died at the hospital. then around 8:30 police say another shooting happened on sherwin street. the 33-year-old man died at the scene. three others transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. we have some new developments this morning, a pair of teens admitted to starting this fast-moving brush fire in south san francisco, just look how close that was to homes there. the fire started just before noon yesterday on the south side of the historic sign hill, abc 7

news reporter reports it forced numerous residents out of their homes. >> reporter: five minutes to evacuate. that was all that lindsay and his wife 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 were flames five feet away from his house. >> i saw this 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 this fire. quote, south san francisco detectives ultimately obtained statement from the juveniles. responsible for starting the fire. the south san francisco fire marshal is now conducting an investigation as hotter days are ahead many residents are now asking for city officials to respond to a request that's been made for years. >> you have all these eucalyptus trees, they don't want to take down but this is a fire hazard throughout our area. >> in south san francisco, abc 7 news. in south san francisco, flames burn through a bakery on starlight street after firefighters contained the wildfire on sign hill. workers at nearby businesses raced to move their cars away from the fire. officials telling us no one was hurt. crews remain on the scene to keep hot spots from reigniting. and in the north bay the grass fire delayed drivers on

interstate 80 in vacaville and at one point highway patrol had to close all the westbound lanes on 80 at midway road out of an abundance of caution. all lanes finally reopened 45 minutes later and investigators are looking for what sparked that fire. some developing news, pg&e says it restored power to 41,000 customers who had electricity shut off wednesday. inspection crews found 30 instances of weather damage which the utility claims could have caused wildfires if it had not acted to turn that power off. a spokesperson says 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.

>> reporter: 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. in a surprising turn of events fema 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 the president had approved the state's disaster declaration request. >> we need to be mindful that these fires are not red fires, they're not blue fires. they don't know boundaries or political parties. the victims that are left behind have to be taken care of. >> cal fire says the fires this year have already burned through 4 million acres. a fema center for the wildfire survivors of the scu lightning complex are 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 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily through october the 21st. it will be closed tomorrow, sunday the 18th. it burned 400,000 acres in august and september before being contained october 1st. focus on reopening, not renaming. san francisco mayor london breed is slamming plans to change the names of dozens of schools. abc 7 news reporter amanda dell castillo has a response from the state and school leaders. >> reporter: dianne feinstein elementary, balboa high school and 40 others within the san francisco unified school district up for renaming. in audio shared by mayor london proceed'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 gnt 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 but he has no objection to considering whether certain schools should be renamed. >> going to consume a lot of school district time and bandwidth, and i just don't think it's the right thing to do that now. >> reporter: in a release sf board of education 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. a group is planning a rally, and protest against twitter in 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 for union plaza from noon until 3:00. according to the san francisco health requirements, no more than 200 people allowed, and all must wear face coverings. rec and park says police will implement safety measures for this event. 6:09 as you wake up here on a saturday morning. we check in with lisa argen for a look at the day ahead. >> well, temperatures in the low to mid-60s right now in oakland. that is mild. yesterday we were in the 90s. how about five to seven degrees cooler today? so still well above average in the upper 80s for you, and above average for most, but that sea breeze returns, details next with my accuweather seven-day forecast. also ahead, one bay area food bank is in desperate need of volunteers this week. details of how you can help out.

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want more proof? ask your rheumatologist about humira citrate-free. if you can't afford your medicine, abbvie may be able to help. welcome back, the second harvest food bank in santa clara county needs volunteers this week to distribute food to now more than half a million people receiving food assistance during the pandemic. second harvest and its partners have since opened 130 new drive-through locations in santa clara and san mateo countys. because of the increased locations there is a high demand for staffing. volunteers must be in good health and at least 14 years old with a signed electronic permission slip if under 18. mocky the lemur, back safe at the san francisco zoo thanks to some

nears. kate larson has been on top of the story from the start. >> reporter: 5-year-old james trin was leaving school with his mom when everything changed. right here, james spotted a wild animal in the parking lot and called over his friends who were astonished to see a -- >> lemur. >> reporter: james, may vis, brandon, adrian, samuel and sophie, all kindergarten students at the hope loout wran day school in daly city explained what happened next. >> 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 he found comfort in this play house. >> what was he doing in there, james? >> hiding. >> reporter: animal control and daly city police showed up and fortunately they had snacked for mocky who at 21 is very old and

requires constant feedings. it all started at the san francisco zoo where mocky was born and raised. on wednesday morning mocky does discovered missing from here, the litman family lemur forest and police then larts opened a burglary investigation when they found the enclosure had been tampered with. 36 hours later san rafael police arrested 30-year-old cory mcgilloway on suspicion of shoplifting and stealing a getaway truck. they found photos of mocky on his cell phone. >> heard the story about the lemur being stolen so they put two and two together. >> reporter: the burglary lieutenant spoke at the zoo. >> 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 lutheran the $2,100 reward and the trin family a lifetime zoo membership. >> mocky is being quarantined away from the rest of his family but we also hope that he gets

better soon. cory mcgilloway booked on four felony charges, including burglary, grand theft of an animal, looting during a state of emergency and vandalism. at the san francisco zoo, i'm kate larson, abc 7 news. while many bay area school districts have worked hard to close the digital divide the abc 7 news i-team found a gap still exists in distance learning when it comes to who's attending class and who is not. abc 7 news 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? >> it used to be making sure you got to school and had the right supplies. now it's having the right device, connectivity, band witth and a safe quiet space. >> not everyone is living in those kinds of housing

conditions. >> reporter: hetty chang is part of an organization that mission includes reducing chronic absences. >> for kids who have access to technology showing up to school is much easier. but for other kids it's much harder because they don't have the technology or the internet. absences are going to be much more concentrated in those populations. >> reporter: data from san francisco unified school district, oakland unified and san mateo district shows greater increases in absences for distance learning for some ethnic groups more than others. absences for pacific islander students increased nearly 16% this year. absences for hispanic 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 skelly says outreach workers are focused on engagement. >> visiting homes, talking to students, figuring out what we can do to 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 as in san mateo. students caking care of smaller siblings or working to help support their families. ousd has contracted additional services this year to conduct outreach to all 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 it has engaged in a research project to reduce inequalities in chronic absenteeism. for the i-team, melanie woodrow,

abc 7 news. we've been covering education all week long. you can read our building a better bay area education week stories, again on abc7news.com. and inside of 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 have to be a short trip, and to socially distance from people who are not in their household. city workers have also posted occupancy limits for specific play areas, and equipment as you see there in the video. six flags discovery kingdom believes it has the answer for a safe halloween celebration. the theme park opens its boo 2020 halloween event today. friendly ghouls and goblins with festive costumes can entertain guests from a distance and animals will also be a part of this year's attractions. the theme park toned down its halloween events this year to

draw in a younger audience. >> 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. >> social distancing and masks are required, of course. six flags says the attraction meet or exceed cdc guidelines on safety. check in with meteorologist lisa argen for a look at that bay area forecast. definitely something to do with the family and maybe want to take advantage of the cooler temperatures that we're seeing today, and go check out the park. >> yeah, definitely, you know, we're going to get some cooling today, coast and bay, but tomorrow, more widespread cooling for everyone. if you want to hold on another day, today is still pretty hot inland valleys, not expecting any records, and, boy, yesterday, if you weren't in the 90s, you were probably at 100 degrees. because everybody was in the low 90s from half moon bay to pacifica, even san francisco. as we look at live doppler 7

it's been the absence of fog for the past several days that has been one contributing factor to all the heat. but as we look to the north, big ridge of high pressure still overhead because you can see the cloud cover dipping down into the northern plains. in fact, bringing snow and, in fact, as we go further to the east, north of minneapolis, north of chicago, that's where all the cold, cold air is and we just cannot displace this ridge of high pressure. as a result temperatures are pretty mild to warm in parts of the bay from mt. diablo, low 70s where the winds are blowing out of the north up to 35 and 40 miles an hour and you can see 50s from walnut creek, san ramon, dublin at 53, closer to the coast, very mild in san francisco, at 66. it is 63 in pacifica. all due to those offshore winds. but look at santa rosa, 49 degrees. so really temperatures are all over the place. but the winds, above a thousand feet, still blowing out of the

north, gusting to 30 miles an hour, mt. diablo, 32 miles an hour, mount saint helena, a red flag warning in effect, north, northeast winds above a thousand feet for the hills in the north and east bay for the next two hours or so but we are beginning to see those winds trend slightly downward but the relative humidity not at all. look at that, at 20%, atlas peak 19%. mt. tam and oakland, so with that dry air, it will warm quickly again but it's not going to be as warm. getting that cooling because those winds are lightening, see a return to an onshore flow. the fog, waiting another day for that. eat eases today near half moon bay, pacifica, hayward and fremont, oakland, above average but not as hot. the cooling spreads further inland tomorrow with a return to low clouds and fog. looking right now at the low cloud deck, the absence of it, it's overnight into your sunday, it comes back and we'll be looking at that fog right along

the coast that's going to help in our cooling for the rest of the day tomorrow. we'll see those 90s inland with upper 80s in concord. that's an improvement. 60s and 70s from san francisco to oakland. monday, fairly similar, but as we get towards the middle of the week we're looking at some of that heat returning, due to lighter offshore push. so we are not going to get any big drop in temperatures, or any big deck of low clouds and fog. you can see the streamlines though here into tuesday for an onshore flow. that's going to switch, though, we're looking for a return to an offshore flow throughout the middle of the week. unfortunately. so hot today again inland with 94 in antioch as well as concord, 89 for you in fremont. 87 palo alto. san mateo 86 today. out of the low 90s, mid-90s santa rosa. 91 in san rafael. the accuweather seven-day forecast temperatures in the 70s today at the shoreline. that's an improvement. upper 80s around the bay. mid-90s inland. that's cooler in spots. by about five to eight degrees

tomorrow, more widespread cooling with the low clouds and fog returning and that cooling continues into monday and unfortunately we reverse the trend tuesday and wednesday with those offshore winds. shouldn't be as strong, but of course we'll watch it for you. we need some rain in here, and that's not in the extended outlook. >> we need some rain with that high fire danger. looking at your seven-day forecast, lisa, more like fall next friday. >> yeah, got that, right. >> laser focus there. it's a brand new season for the san francisco gay men's chorus, we have more on the celebration and a new song with a broadway legend. i am robert strickler. i've been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. and i enthusiastically recommend prevagen.

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premier of a new song featuring kristen chenoweth. we spoke to the artistic director who says the past seven months has been challenging who has been through so much, including devastation by a.i.d.s. >> we learned a lot of things throughout that. i was conducting gay choruses during that time. we learned how to take care of each other, how to bond as a community and take care of the needs that we had. this one is much different in that we can't gather. >> access to the concert is free but donations are strongly encouraged. in this time of need to support our arts. still to come here on abc 7 mornings, coronavirus cases continue to rise across much of the country, but there's new hope in the race for a vaccine. and a vta driver has died from covid-19. months into the pandemic we take a look at the safety measures in place for drivers and passengers as more

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#. bilgds a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc 7 news. good saturday morning, thank you so much for waking up with us here on abc 7 mornings, i'm allian glover. we want to get right to meteorologist lisa argen for a look at the bay area forecast. many people wondering if they will have to sweat it out again today, lisa. >> that has been the rule, hasn't it, julian? it is going to be warm inland but we're watching a red flag warning that's still into effect above a thousand feet for the hills of the north and east bay until 8:00. so that's where we're watching gusty winds. they haven't been -- now they are beginning to decrease but it's still super dry there. mount saint helena, 32 miles an hour, mout. diablo, 28 miles an hour and the direction is out of the north. that's how quickly the atmosphere dries out when it's coming out of the north and east. you can see below 20% here, oakland, mt. tam and not much of a recovery today because with

that dry air we warm quickly. it is in the 70s, mount deaub low. but elsewhere we're in the 60s. it's mild, even in san francisco. 66, 65 in pacifica but you look at that 49, santa rosa, and along the coast it was in the 80s yesterday. so we are going in the right direction with 15 to 29 degrees of cooling so far this morning. that onshore flow is weak and it will switch around later on today but as we warm up you can see the 90s returning inland. elsewhere it will be cooler, 70s and 80s for you around the bay and at the coast. details on that cooler fall outlook coming up in a few minutes. julian. >> >> finally relief for folks without a sea, thank you, lisa. 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 country, 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 obtained by abc news. 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. >> reporter: 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. >> reporter: at least 38 states battling a rise in cases, 39 with an increase in hospitalizations. yesterday former new jersey governor chris christie urged others to wear a mask after he didn't while on the president's debate team. at that white house rose garden event. later 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. >> reporter: 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 contact tracing app at several locations challenges lie ahead. is survey of 5,000 adults 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%. >> reporter: the same survey showed that nine out of ten young people 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 about the same level reduction in deaths. >> reporter: still, a high participant rate among young people could be useful in providing symptom assessment tools which is being done at brigham young university. >> you can daily symptom checking. 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. >> reporter: healthy together doesn't allow users to see if their insurance covers testing but there is information about cares act funding for test results. while there are potential hurdles stanford's professor mellow believes 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. >> reporter: david louie, abc 7 news. a 13-year bus driver with

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. in the first place. 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 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 high risk environment which would be, you know, 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

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to wear a mask out in public around other people. sure it'll keep you healthy. but more importantly, i won't have to see your happy smiling face. ugh. and if you don't want to wear a mask, i've just got one thing to tell you. scram, go away. ugh. caring for each other because we are all in this together. so wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya? ugh. 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 so you don't have to worry about coming in contact with someone during check-in. the layout has been adjusted to reduce capacity. surfaces cleaned regularly. touch free hand sanitizer

stations located throughout the building. 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 grant avenue between sacramento and commercial street. artists include future twin, and betty look. tony lee, and more on sunday. it's 6:41, you're probably wondering what the forecast is. here's lisa. it's gorgeous, 75 degrees, relative humidity at 19%, and a north wind at # 22 miles an hour. so a red flag warning for the upper elevations of the north and east bay. for the next few hours. dry there but we will slowly cool off over the weekend. my accuweather seven-day forecast is next. beautiful shot right there. thank you, lisa. also next up, we're still waiting to see who will duke it out for the world series. how a battle between two will

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the san francisco giants are laying off about 10% of their full-time positions because of the pandemic. the chronicle reports about 50 people will lose their job in the business and baseball operations department. employees without contracts will be let go on october the 31st. the giants plan to honor those with contracts through the end of the year. boy, what a sign of the times that is. in sports, a long time san jose shark is headed out of the bay. where will joe thornton call home next? 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 once again 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.

two on for swanson. 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. made it 7-2 dodgers, they win 73 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. they got three, obviously. we have -- we live to fight another day. >> alcs from san diego. down 3-0. top five. houston down 1-0. fundamental baseball beats the analytics here, george springer ground ball. two rbi knock. houston a lead.

four run fame without a home run. valdez cruising, he struck out nine in six innings. mike zanino snapping the bat in frustration for tampa bay. kyle tucker leaves the yard as well. solo blast makes it 5-1. the only thing he did wrong here? 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 season, and historic year. people have given me 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 lafs. jumbo joe spent 15 years in team teal. 23rd nhl 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?

>> travis ishikawa, 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. against the cardinals. the giants won the world series of course and ended in a memorable thrilling game against the royals. capped by the performance in game seven. good times indeed. that's your look at sports, back to you. chris, thank you, a check of the forecast on this saturday morning. you've probably been sweating it out the last week with these 90s we had across the board here in the bay area. but lisa, you're finally telling us some slightly cooler temperatures. >> that's right. we're going to emphasize that slightly today, a little more so tomorrow, and boy, who was hot last night? it finally cooled off, but no thanks to low clouds and fog that are absent. live doppler 7. but, you know, they are getting really cold air across much of the northern tier of the rest of

the nation. so while we are locked in with this big dome of high pressure, in the upper levels of the atmosphere, you see some snow. north of minnesota. also north of chicago. and looking at temperatures just in the 30s this morning for those folks in the midwest. there's also snow over vermont and new hampshire, and back home here we have got clear conditions from walnut creek, 66, mild degrees in san francisco. 55 in mountain view. 61 in san jose. 50s at the coast. exploratorium camera, pretty view here with 49 in santa rosa. certainly colder in the north bay. and it is much cooler everywhere across the bay area. but the red flag warning still going for the hills of the north and east bay through 8:00, another hour or so, where you can see the winds out in the north, 25 to 33 miles an hour. and that relative humidity bone dry here with temperature -- well relative humidity at about 19 to 20%. we will not be allowing for that to increase. the feel moisture is low with no

fog in the future. we're looking at dry conditions, with temperatures above normal again today. not as hot as it's been, and as we look at sutrow, you can see the air quality is pretty good. heat eases near our beaches, out of the 90s today, half moon bay and around the bay it will be also in the mid to upper 80s. so you are welcome to 90s around fremont and oakland today. cooler there. more cooling for our inland valleys tomorrow and then the fog returning overnight tonight. pretty view here from our roof camera. and as we look at where we should be for this time of year, well i had that for you. still hot in the south bay today. in fact, in the mid-90s. so only a couple degrees cooler. average high should be just in the 70s for you. 90s san ca clara, 87 in cupertino. looking at the peninsula, that weak sea breeze will arrive later on today. may not even feel it but temperatures will warm quickly, before we get that wind shift so we'll be well into the upper

80s, redwood city. but that's down from about 93 that you had yesterday. 87 in palo alto. 77 in pacifica. still mild on the coast. a lot of sunshine in the sunset district, daly city, 76 today. 82. so ten degrees cooler in san francisco today. mid-90s, a very warm day once again in santa rosa with 94 in sonoma. a hot day for you. southern ma rin here, a little bit of cooling, overall still a warm afternoon. on the east bay, 88 in hayward, and castro valley. inland in temperatures into the mid-90s again today. accuweather seven-day forecast, temperatures cooling as we get into the second half of your weekend from the mid-90s inland to the low 90s tomorrow. beaches will cool off into the 60s. for sunday afternoon with more fog. that cooling continues on monday. warming up again tuesday and wednesday. but by the end of the upcoming workweek it's going to feel more like fall with temperatures in the low to mid-80s inland.

julian? >> all right, thank you, lisa. halloween might be different this year, due to the pandemic, of course, but there are plenty of fun and scary things to do out there. a haunted house drive-through in pleasanton is delivering the ultimate halloween -- >> how you all doing? come on down. we've got rats on a struck. >> the pirates of emerson haunted drive-through here at the alameda county fairgrounds. i don't think there's anything quite like this out there. trick or treat town, hill billies, pirates, clowns. >> 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 >> we had to pivot, redesign and we had a couple weeks to come down and put it together in our head how we could do a drive-through and make it successful. 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 emerson started on emerson 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. said you can't do it anymore. 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 actually 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. so you guys make sure you come on out. see what we're all about. >> 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 year. >> you can watch more stories like this onew 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

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watching the winds in the upper el vagus, red flag warning for another hour. the north winds from mount saint helena. to mt. diablo. pretty strong. with the dry atmosphere we warm up quickly. so despite a slight cooldown today we're still hot inland, low to mid-90s there, 87 in oakland. that's an improvement. 82 downtown. 91 in san rafael. still hot in spots, but the accuweather seven-day forecast shows we got the 70s today at the coast, 60s tomorrow. cooling continues on monday, and then we'll see a bit of a warm-up midweek. julian? >> all right, thank you, lisa, and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. we appreciate you spending some time with us. i'm julian glover. for lisa argen. we will be back at 8:00 a.m. good morning america is coming up next. the news is always on, on abc7news.com. and like i said, we'll see you at 8:00. have a great morning.

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