because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. >> a free speech rally put on supporters of president trump in san francisco came to an abrupt end this weekend. this morning, thousands of people are now donating money to help the organizer. he's recovering from a punch that knocked out his teeth. good morning, everyone. it's sunday, october 18th. i'm liz kreutz. thank you for joining us. we'll have much more on that rally in just a moment, but first, as always, let's start with a check of the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. good morning, lisa. >> good morning to you, liz. we're seeing some subtle changes that will bring in some cooling across the bay area. it's clear, though, so the fog is not with us this morning. it will be with us later on this afternoon. there's a roof camera from the city.

60 degrees. 59 in oakland. it is 55 in mountain view and gilroy and a look at sfo, we'll have lots of sunshine today, and numbers this morning are chilly in santa rosa, 49 for you. it is 52 in novato with upper 50s for our friends in concord and a live look outside here from our exploratorium camera. notice with the clear sky, we will have pretty good air quality from the coast to the central bay, south central bay but it will be moderate from the north bay and our inland east bay and santa clara. hazy at times. you'll probably notice that but overall a lot of sunshine dominating the sky today but notice, the temperatures will be cooler, we're in the 80s by noontime, but that's just inland. 70s around the bay. staying in the 60s at the coast, and looking at that cooler weather to last through tomorrow and looking more like fall throughout the week ahead, but there will be some offshore winds. i'll explain coming up. liz? >> lisa, thank you. some well-known conservative personality agendas were here to speak at the free speech

rally in san francisco but organizers canceled the event. minutes after it started. police say that several people participating in the rally were injured as well as three officers when they were sprayed with pepper spray. a warning now this next video you may find disturbing. a witness captured the scene as a protester punched the rally organizer philip anderson before his speech. abc 7 news reporter cornell barnard has a look at how things quickly escalated. >> no nazis, no kkk, no fascist usa. >> reporter: a large crowd of demonstrators gathered at u.n. plaza to oppose a small group holding what was billed as a free speech rally, protesting what they say is twitter censorship of some of its concept. >> they have no business being here. they're trying to build a fascist movement in this country. >> reporter: the rally was granted a permit from the city, some of the speakers expected included well-known president

trump supporters and conservative right personalities, but most never got the chance to be heard. tensions quickly escalated, counter demonstrators taunted police. sky 7 was overhead as some kicked barricades. police wearing riot gear tried to protect the speakers from the crowd, but many threw bottles at the stage and shouted down the speakers. before the event, the main organizer philip anderson said he was attacked and punched, knocking his front teeth out. >> take a look, you knock a black man's teeth out. you knocked my teeth out. >> reporter: minutes later, anderson announced the rally was over. >> too bad it got canceled. it's too bad but this is what happens when you lose free speech. this is what happens, america. this is what our country is turning into. >> reporter: some counter demonstrators felt victorious. >> i think that the fact that they were outnumbered is, you know, is important. >> it's tough, right, because i absolutely believe in free speech but i'm also anti-fascism. >> reporter: rally organizers

were escorted away by police. in san francisco, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. >> and police released a statement about the incident saying "demonstrators began throwing glass bottles, plastic bottles filled with unknown liquid, metal cans and eggs at free speech rally participants and local law enforcement personnel. the rally became so violent in nature it was declared a public safety hazard and was shut down." abc 7 i-team reporter dan noyes talked to philip anderson, now recovering at a home where he is staying. >> reporter: why did you come here? >> the whole point right here. we don't have the right to peacefully protest obviously. we don't have the right to free speech and that's a fact. we don't have a first amendment right to peacefully protest and that means we're no longer americans. one of my teeth was knocked out and the other one was dangling and they had to put shots in my mouth and then they pulled that tooth. hurt kind of bad, pretty bad, honestly and they told me that the teeth you can't put them back in. you have to get a replacement.

>> a go fund me for anderson's medical expenses has raised more than $19,000. an i-team reporter dan noyes was at the rally, we have an extended cut of his footage on facebook page and website, abc7news.com. thousands of people marched for women in at least a dozen cities around the bay area. >> we refuse! >> we refuse! >> to accept! >> to accept! >> a fascist america! >> abc 7 was in san francisco for a woman's march there. participants marched from civic center plaza on mcallister street to the embarcadero center. people held up pro-choice signs and honored the late supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. black lives matter and human rights advocates were also marching in solidarity. new developments a federal judge will decide if the undocumented man who shot and killed kate steinly along the san francisco waterfront in 2015 is competent to now stand trial on other charges.

jose ines garcia zerati was acquitted by a san francisco jury on state charges back in 2017. his defense attorneys claimed he fired the gun accidentally. zerati still faces gun charges in federal court. a judge refused to let zerati plead guilty to charges on friday. according to "the examiner" zerati wants to plead guilty and be sentenced to prison or deported. two doctors have diagnosed zerati with schizophrenia and declared him unfit to stand trial. we're learning more about memorial services for a san francisco firefighter paramedic killed in the line of duty during a training accident. jason cortez died on october 7th and he leaves behind his wife and their two sons, along with his father, mother and stepmother. a private vigil will take place tomorrow afternoon at st. ignatius church on the university of san francisco

campus. on tuesday morning, a private celebration of life will begin at 11:00 inside oracle park. and the expiration date for san francisco's businesses shared spaces is coming up. the program has been a big way for restaurants to expand outdoor dining, the financial impact on the economy is also something we're focused on as we build a better bay area and now many business owners are asking for the program to become permanent, not just something during the. demme pandemic. abc 7 news report luz pena tells us what the city is planning. ♪ >> we had to have covid to happen to make an experience like this in the city so it's wonderful. it's awesome. >> yes, we've been saying to each other, it feels like we're in europe. >> reporter: david and katherine are talking about the shared spaces platforms, the technical term for these dine-in cubicles. on parking spaces. come december 31st, they will have to disappear. this map shows that over 2,000 businesses will be impacted once the city program ends. >> hanging on until the end of the year. if we make it to 2021. >> reporter: kat anderson and her business partner invested

over $5,000 to build outdoor dining. this is what they say is keeping their doors open during this pandemic, even though now they can technically open for indoor dining with 25% capacity. >> we need a little bit more uptick in the business to pay for that because we have to pay for staff and all of our food and it's definitely investment. >> reporter: the precedent of the san francisco small business commission says 80% of business owners want to make this outdoor option permanent even after december 31st. >> there's also commercial corridors in neighborhoods that don't have that kind of foot traffic and so i'd like to give them an incentive to help create community in their neighborhoods and to do that, i think we need a longer program. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor rafael mandelman says he'll propose a two-year extension to this program but it won't be easy. >> i mean certainly, there's safety issues, there's financial issues for the city, the displacing of parking which

brings revenue to the city and also parking some of the other businesses rely on and need. >> reporter: in san francisco, luz pena, abc 7 news. lisa, it has been nice to have the outdoor spaces through this time at the least. >> yes, and you know, yesterday, wow, we have had so many days with 90-degree temperatures. today we'll break that trend and see more 80s around the bay, even 70s at the coast with the return to a little bit of fog out there. hard to believe, i know. stay tuned. my accuweather seven-day forecast is mg could up. >> thanks, lisa. also ahead, why some neighbors want to turn part of the great highway into a car-free zone permanently. plus, take a look at this big cat. too close for comfort, one peninsula family, and the mountain lion is no stranger to this neighborhood.

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united sfo's biggest airline is starting to see signs of

recovery despite steep losses within the industry according to a report from "the san francisco chronicle." before the pandemic, it had 300 daily dart farther tour departures from sfo, in april dropped to 50. leisure travel out of sfo is focused on beach locations and destinations with natural attractions. united just furloughed 13,000 employees this month, including around 3,000 here in the bay area. calls are growing in san francisco to make the upper great highway permanently car free as we reach nearly eight months of the coronavirus pandemic. according to "the examiner" plans include a closure to vehicles along with traffic management to reduce impacts in surrounding neighborhoods. it would be between lincoln way and sloat boulevard. it has gotten more than 2,000 signatures since its launch in june, but making it permanent will be difficult. neighbors have complained of increased traffic and dangerous driving. in oakland, paying tribute

to a player considered to be baseball's greatest second baseman ever who polished his game on the city's fields. flags flew at half staff to honor hall of famer joe morgan. the castle mt. high school grad died monday at the age of 77. morgan starred for the cincinnati reds in 1970s, and the big red machine won four pennants and two world series. morgan played with the giants and athletics at the end of his 22-year career. on the peninsula, a san mateo family captured video of a mountain lion roaming around their backyard more than with us. san mateo police are telling residents to use caution because of another confirmed sighting a few blocks away just last night. the cat was spotted on alameda de las pulgas around 10:20 last night. abc 7 news reporter lauren martinez spoke to neighbors in the area who say they're not surprised. >> reporter: video released by police shows the mountain lion an a deck area around friday at

10:00 p.m. and again saturday morning at 6:45. officers alerted some neighbors by going door to door off alameda de las pulgas. sue galloway lives next door to the homeowners that captured the video. she said the creek in their back yards attract deer and other wildlife. when she heard about the mountain lion, she was not surprised. >> no, but i was surprised when i saw how big he was. >> reporter: neighbors who lived at that same home a year and a half ago captured video of a mountain lion. >> he's out there and like i said, he was a big cat. >> reporter: we spoke to another neighbor who said he went jogging here at sugarloaf park and was turned around because of a mountain lion sighting here. >> i was stopped by a park ranger. he was like don't go in there. there's been a mountain lion sighting. you want to turn around and go the other way. >> reporter: smallwood said that incident happened two weeks ago. we showed him the surveillance video. last night at 10:00 and this morning around 6:00. >> wow.

>> reporter: police searched the area and didn't locate the mountain lion and issued the alert so residents can take precautions. >> we have a dog and young kid. it's frightening to have huge mountain lions running around your yard. >> reporter: in san mateo, lauren martinez, abc 7 news. >> certainly is frightening. the lemur stolen from the san francisco zoo, one of my favorite stories of the week, the lemur is still under quarantine. mocky was stolen wednesday and was discovered thursday night at hope lutheran day school in daly city. that same day san rafael police arrested 30-year-old cory mcgilloway on suspicion of shoplifting and stealing a getaway truck and later found photos of mocky on his cell phone and one of the officers who tried to take his kids to the zoo the day before made the connection. 5-year-old james, you can see him here, tugging at his moem, james trin and his classmates were the first ones to spot the lemur at the school.

>> he jumped over the gate and he was there and then they called police animal control. >> they are too cute. hope lutheran received the $2,100 reward, the school did and the trin family, little james with his super smart eye for catching and seeing the lemur has received a lifetime membership to the zoo. mcgilloway is booked on four felony charges, including burglary, grand theft of an animal, looting during a state of emergency and vandalism. abc 7 stopped by the san francisco zoo to see how visitors felt about the theft. >> i don't like it, because it's not nice to take things without asking. >> i'm pretty sure those punishment charges are, fit well. >> pretty messed up because he could die if he doesn't have the care that he needs, you know. >> no food, in a dungeon. >> the san francisco zoo says mocky was dehydrated and hungry, but they're working to get him back to full health so that he can be back in the exhibit.

very happy ending. there's a new way to rent a movie and garn tiers you'll get the best seat in the house. amc is offering people the chance to rent out a theater for as little as $99. you can rent out the theater, for some movies the price can go up to $349. popcorn is extra, by the way. people are allowed to invite up to 20 people to the screening. the offer is available in most states, including some theaters here in the bay area. amc is joining other cinemas in the new offering, intended to keep them afloat after record-breaking losses due to the pandemic. lisa, i don't remember the last time i went to a movie. this would be a fun, safe way to do it. >> i agree. some of that has to do with your bedroom, too. >> true. >> certainly. we are looking at some pretty good weather as we get into the second half of your weekend. it's going to cool off. the 90s were widespread yesterday. highs in a narrow range in the low to mid-90s.

we will get back to where we should be more likely in the temperatures near 90, just for our inland valleys today. the rest of us being influenced by the coast, the coastal onshore flow and a little bit of fog later on in the day. live doppler 7, the fog, and that's what moves later on today into the san mateo area, also marin county coastline, and then it develops even more so overnight tonight. it is mild in oakland, upper 60s there, 58 in concord. santa rosa good morning to you with 49 degrees, around 2 to 4 degrees cooler this morning. 56 in american canyon with 54 around the coast. air quality is moderate. you see the yellows from oakland to san francisco. elsewhere doing pretty well, but we will have the hazy conditions today. it's an alert or an advisory today. we don't have a spare the air alert and looking at san jose with that moderate air quality, so still fires burning in california, and that onshore flow pretty light out there, and so you will have a little bit of

haze from time to time. but we are cooler today, and tomorrow, with the only 90s in our inland valleys, but we will warm up again tuesday into wednesday, that fog is not going to be much of it, and as the winds switch around again it will dry things out and we'll warm up to some lower 90s inland. even a little warmer around the bay but closer to average as we get towards next weekend, in fact temperatures bombing out but once again it's not because of the low clouds and the fog. there's going to be lots of wind, but from a system that drops into the nation's mid section. here is a looking at the fog later on today. so we'll be partly cloudy from half moon bay, perhaps stinson beach later on today. the fog is shallow, it continues to develop overnight. here we are at noon on monday and it gets swept away once again. so looking at the ten tours for your monday, with 60s at the coast, 70s out towards oakland. so we'll continue that cooldown with mid 80s in concord, another

five degrees of cooling. as we get into your tuesday, reversing the trend with about 09 in concord and livermore and as we get into wednesday, noticing that still the numbers are comfortable. winds are getting a little faster out of the north here as we get into the middle of the week. so highs today around the bay with those mid-70s in san francisco, some sun to start out here, half moon bay. 89 santa rosa, as well as the south bay for you in san jose, look for low 90s in our inland valleys. low clouds and fog along the coast tonight, and the accuweather seven-day forecast, the cooling trend continues for your monday, waking up to some patchy fog. it's warm again midweek, not too warm and as we get into the cooler numbers thursday, friday and saturday we're still looking at gusty winds that will keep us on alert for fire danger, as you know october is bringing us the very, very dry conditions. so no rain in sight, liz. >> definitely not out of the woods yet. lisa, thank you. just ahead, supermarket sweep returns to your tv tonight. we'll have a preview of the new take on the classic game show and the bay area contestant ready to win some big money.

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new details how investigators broke open an unemployment fraud case that's led to the arrest of 21 people. many were inmates accused of scamming the system from behind bars. cases of fraud have plagued california's agency during the pandemic. 7 on your side's michael finney explains an alert investigator is getting the credit for uncovering the scheme. >> eight inmates inside the mcguire correctional facility in redwood city face charges of taking part in a scheme to defraud the state out of a quarter million dollars in unemployment benefits. some were awaiting trial. some were serving time on other charges. they are some of the 21 defendants that include three inmates from three jails. >> one of our inspectors who works in our office was working on another case, unrelated case,

and was listening to some jail calls. >> reporter: investigator jordan boyd had been monitoring calls made from the jail as part of a completely different investigation. sean gallagher, the san mateo county d.a.'s office, says inmates are warned that their phone conversations are routinely recorded. the inmates discussed social security numbers and other personal identifiable information being passed to the outside to individuals who applied for unemployment benefits on their behalf. >> in order to perpetuate the fraud there has to be a lot of personal identifying information out there, names, addresses, social securitys. >> reporter: the search warrant obtained by 7 on your side said investigators reviewed over 200 recorded jail calls, tablet messages and video visits. the investigator began monitoring inmate louis marical's recorded jail call to

lionel jericho mccoy jr. east palo alto and san jose police arrested mccoy in this raid in san jose in 2016 for the murder of christopher puckett in what police described is an ongoing dispute. investigators say mccoy shot puckett on this street in east palo alto in june of that year. mccoy is serving a sentence of 50 years to life for that murder at corcoran state prison. boyd states working with the sheriff's office he obtained photographs of a home med telephone book mariscal kept under his cell mattress. i quickly discovered approximately 200 calls between mariscal and mccoy that spanned march 14th 2020 to june 11th, 2020. mccoy is accused of receiving those calls on three cell phones smuggled into his prison cell but he wasn't the only one to get calls. >> there were phone calls between inmates and some people

on the outside who were the ones who were making the applications online. >> reporter: i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. hold onto your shopping cart. there's grocery aisle craziness coming to abc 7. tonight is the premiere of "supermarket sweep" a new take on a classic game show. comedian leslie jones is hosting this updated version where teams participate in fast-paced shopping challenges aiming for a chance at the $100,000 in prize money. contestant kelsey singh is originally from cupertino. she says the competition combines cold calculation with pure chaos and requires lightning quick reflexes. >> i think the craziest part is running through the aisles. as an audience member, like i know for me, i was taught to kind of be frugal and to see what the cheapest items were but you'll be surprised what items we can grab and how much we grab of it. it's insane.

>> if she wins, kelsey wants to donate some of the money to her favorite animal rescue group." supermarket sweep" premieres tonight 8:00 p.m. here on abc 7. still to come on "abc 7 mornings," the fight for battleground states. how the president and former vice president spend their last weeks before the election. 18,000 acres of land donated to the national park service. how this piece of history is protecting wildlife and the memory of naturalist john muir.

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.

building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. if you vote for me prosperity will serve, normal life will fully resume and that's all we want. next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country. >> president trump making that statement at a packed rally, where few masks were worn and no social distancing. this is 11 states set a new record in covid cases and two states reach record deaths in a

single day. good morning again. thank you for joining us. we're going to have more on the president's rally in the national covid headlines in a moment but if you're just joining us this half hour, let's get another check of the weather with lisa argen. >> hey liz, good morning to you. hi, everyone. eight a clear start out there and from walnut creek it's dark. sun not coming up until 21 minutes after 7:00, so as we look live this morning, you'll notice that the temperatures are pretty comfortable from the upper 50s, to the local 60s in san jose. there is mt. tam and the fog is well south of us right now. 49 santa rosa. 55 by the delta and 56 in livermore. it's going to move up from central california and bring patchy fog along the coast, helping in our cooling air quality moderate north bay inland east bay and also in the santa clara valley. otherwise, it will continue to get a little bit better as that onshore flow strengthens into

our monday. a look at the 9:00 temperatures, 60s and 70s. by 1:00 there is a sea breeze out there and numbers mainly in the 70s and 80s around the bay. still 60s at the coast, and by tonight, the fog is back, we're capping the highs today, cooler than yesterday's reading by at least five to maybe even ten degrees in some spots today. liz? >> all right, lisa, thank you. president trump and former vice president joe biden are making their final arguments to voteert rs as the race for the e house enters its final weeks. both the candidates are hitting the road looking to secure votes in those must-win battleground states and this is record numbers cast their ballots for the next president. abc news reporter karina mitchell has the details. >> reporter: with just 16 days until election day, the race for the white house is playing out across several battleground states. president trump carried four years ago. the president will spend today with supporters in las vegas, reno, carson city, nevada, and southern california. he held outdoor events in michigan and wisconsin saturday.

few masks worn in the crowd but no social distancing. >> and that's during, and we're rounding the corner, we got the vaccines all that, even without it we're rounding the corner. you'll see it, we're rounding the corner and we have unbelievable the vaccines are unbelievable. >> reporter: democratic challenger joe biden was off the trail on saturday slammed trump for holding a rally in wisconsin, a state that is seeing a record number of daily covid cases. in a statement biden said in part "wisconsin is in the grips of one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the country. we've lost far too many lives to this pandemic. and the sad fact is, it didn't have to be this way." biden will head to north carolina later today for a rally in durham. his running mate senator kamala harris set to return to campaigning monday after suspending travel last week, after an aide tested positive for covid-19. harris tested negative. karina mitchell, abc news, new york. a major exception to the focus on a battleground states president trump will be visiting

newport beach today. yes, he's coming to california and might seem strange for him to visit a democratic state this close to the election but it could pay off with republican donors. he could also be coming to boost republican congressional campaigns in orange county which turned blue in 2016. the event will be held at the newport beach home of tech mogul palmer lecky, a long beach native who sold his virtual reality company to facebook. coming up on "this week" house speaker nancy pelosi will talk about the passage of house democrats updated h.e.r.o.e.s. act and resuming covid relief talks after the president's decision to walk away. watch the full interview on "this week with george stephanopolous" at 8:00 this morning here on abc 7. the united states is the first country to reach 8 million cases of covid-19, marking that grim milestone less than a month after reaching 7 million cases. here's abc 7, abc news reporter

zoreen shah with more. >> reporter: the u.s. reaching a grim milestone, more than 8 million americans have been diagnosed with covid-19. health care workers sounding the alarm. >> the anti-mask sentiment and people still don't believe this is a real disease. >> reporter: president trump with this message. >> if you vote for me, prosperity will surge, normal life will fully resume, and that's all we want. next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo taking aim at the administration's handling of the pandemic. >> the worst mistake is still ongoing, and that was the denial of the problem in the first place. the second mistake is dividing the nation. >> reporter: saying his strategy will be focusing on microclusters of cases to fight the virus. this week states hitting record high case total. 13 hit record hospitalizations. two hit record deaths, and wisconsin now averaging more than 3,000 cases a day, broke records in all three categories. in new mexico, hospitalizations

have jumped 70% this month. as temperatures cool down, and people move indoors, dr. anthony fauci urging everyone to wear masks, practice social distancing, and avoid large holiday gatherings. >> do things to the extent that you can outdoors preferenially and if it's indoors good ventilation. >> reporter: el paso, texas, tightening restrictions after cases and hospitalizations hit an all-time high. >> this pandemic is not going to go away until we have a vaccine. >> reporter: pfizer hopes to apply for emergency authorization for its drug assuming it hits the necessary milestones by the third week of november. as the country waits for a vaccine, schools continue to struggle with educating kids safely, one administration going totally remote until next year and entire mississippi high school with 600 students now in quarantine.

zoreen shah, abc news, los angeles. fans and pleeps are pressuring state officials to allow for disneyland to reopen. yesterday dozens gathered outside the park to protest. the theme park has been closed since march due to the covid-19 pandemic. the rally comes weeks after disney announced it would lay off 28,000 employees due in part to the unwillingness of governor newsom and other state officials to lift restrictions. >> disneyland is open worldwide. why can't disneyland anaheim be open? i think the governor needs to give us a chance to open and to keep asking but he keeps pushing the bar farther back. >> newsom said he's taking a cautious approach to reopening the california economy after an earlier effort led to a major spike in coronavirus cases. despite disneyland and california adventure remaining closed, downtown disney is open for business and of course we have to mention disney is the parent company of abc 7. in the east bay, the national park service is celebrating the purchase of land crucial to saving wildlife and the opening of an historic area to the possibly.

the john muir land trust recently bought west hills farm in martinez thanks to a massive donation campaign and it includes 18,000 acres of open space which protect the red legged frog, american badger and golden eagle. governor gavin newsom shared his thanks during a live webcast celebrating the farm's donation. >> thank you to the national park service for being a model to other nations, for all of your stewardship, for your faith and devotion to the cause, unites each and every one of us today, the generational cause, sustainable not just situational mindset. >> the land trust also celebrated the opening of almond ranch to the public for the very first time. still ahead on "abc 7 mornings," who wants to be a millionaire returns tonight. we hear from host jimmy kimmel about some of the contestants taking part this season. here is a live look from our

roof camera looking out over the embarcadero. we'll check in with lisa when we get back. stick with us. more than three decades after the 1989 loma prieta earthquake, scientists and emergency teams are working to prepare the bay area for the next big one, from hospital improvements to predicting future dwaquakes to the impact the covid crisis, we'll show you what's being done in the bay area and how you can help protect your family. please join us for "the earthquake effect: staying safe" tonight at 6:30, here on abc 7.

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welcome back. here is a live look out there, looking out on the sunrise here on this sunday morning. so pretty to tee that as the sun comes up. the redwood police activities league is asking for toy and book donations for the upcoming holidays. last year they collected more than 12,000 toys for nearly 500 families that needed assistance. you can drop off donations at

any redwood city fire station or police department or at one of the dozen participating businesses. due to the current covid-19 restrictions this year, the christmas toy and book drive has been redesigned for social distancing and safety. in the south bay, several generations of neighbors saluted a world war ii veteran who celebrated his 95th birthday. ♪ boy scouts unfolded an american flag in john atwell's honor. he was drafted into the army when he was only a little bit older than these teens are now, at the age of 19. atwell fought in the battle of the bulge to liberate europe from the nazis. the celebration was quite a surprise. >> overwhelmed. had no idea. i blame my daughter for this and my son. it's been wonderful. >> present arms. ♪ by the dawn's >> members of local american legion and vfw post also joined

in the celebration. abc 7 news reporter j.r. stone also posted on facebook asking people to send cards to atwell and hundreds have said they will. what a life. happy birthday, john. lisa, let's take a look outside. >> it's nice and clear, liz, above 2,200 feet, mt. tam here, where temperatures are in the mid-70s, and the winds well they're light this morning. you can see nice and clear out there. we're getting some fog before the sun sets tonight, and that will set the trend for a cooling trend. stay tuned. my accuweather seven-day forecast is coming up. >> thanks, lisa. also next, two big baseball games to get to the world series, game seven in the american league and could the dodgers force a game seven in their series against the braves? chris alvarez has the highlights coming up in sports.

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it is 60 degrees in san francisco right now and pretty quiet there on the bridge. a few cars driving by. let's talk sports now. the 49ers are looking to bounce back from last week's loss against miami. the niners take on the los angeles rams tonight. kickoff is at 5:20. in baseball, we know at least one team who won the pennant and getting ready for the world series. chris alvarez has more in this morning's sports. >> good morning opinion could it be destiny? dusty baker looks to have the houston astros coming back from an 0-3 deficit to win. the first and only, the 2004 red sox who beat the yankees to win the alcs. here we go from san diego. bottom one, rays strike first, runner on and he takes the deep to right center, 2-0 tampa bay and he is all kinds of fired up. bottom two, same score. the hanging breaking ball and that one to the seats in left where no one is. 3-0 rays and they're feeling it. top four, morton strikes out

correa. top nine, diaz flies out to right and that will to it. the rays win the pennant 4-2, and mr. l play in the world series for the second time in franchise history. game six of the nlcs. two homers in game five, fifth homer of the series, make it 1-0. justin turner makes it back-to-back jacks and the dodgers take a 2-0 lead. walker buehler threw six scoreless innings and mookie betts made a great catch in game five. this is why they pay him all kinds of money, leaps and robs him of extra bases. so nice we show it twice. look at the reaction from betts and jansen gets sandoval to fly tout left. dodgers win -1. another winner-take-all game seven in the national league. college football you saw it

here on abc 7, clemson number one in the nation against georgia tech and the quarterback trevor lawrence showing why he's the projected number one pick in the upcoming draft. 59-yard connection. 14-7 tigers. lawrence throws for 404 yards and five scores, career highs. clemson improves to 5-0 with 73-7 win. alabama hosting georgia. nick saban cleared for the sidelines after his third straight negative covid test. bennett connects with james cook and going 2 yards to the house, that made it 14-7 georgia. the bulldogs led by four at the break. third quarter mack jones finds watta and he's going 90 yards to the house, 27-24 bama. late third harris two yards out and in, 152 yards on the night, roll tide. bama wins 41-24. notre dame hosting louisville, and the fighting irish looking to stay unbeaten. cunningham and 7-6.

cardinals late fourth winning time, ian book can't find anybody so he's going to take it in himself. look at this nifty run. 13 yards and in. notre dame survives 12-7, they are 4-0 this season. that's your look at sports. let's send it back to you. >> let's get a check of the weather with lisa argen. we're not out of the woods with fire season. >> no, goes well into november and year-round in southern california. as we look at live doppler 7 no fog this morning. it's to the south of us. plenty of cold air. there's been snow in nebraska. you can clearly pick out the trough here over the nation's mid section, so with that snow from nebraska through omaha, certainly feeling like fall, even a bit of winter there as we look at the beach here in santa cruz, 55 degrees. it was 90 yesterday, today about 81 down there. 59 in oakland right now. 61 in san jose. 57 half moon bay. gorgeous view from our east bay hills camera, atop vollmer peak.

49 santa rosa. it is 55 by the delta with some calm winds and we'll be looking at the air quality moderate today, you can see it's good right now in the north bay, but the yellows indicate moderate. currently in san francisco and oakland, it's good in fremont, but you may notice some haze here in the south bay, santa clara right now moderate air quality for you. nice view here exploratorium camera, san francisco today plenty of sunshine and the fog moves back into the bay along the coast later on today. so cooler today and tomorrow. we're going to warm up a little bit on tuesday and wednesday thanks to a wind shift and then much cooler weather over the weekend, and as we look at the week ahead in our inland valleys today, pretty warm out there, danville, walnut creek and concord, in and around 90 degrees, mid to upper 70s this time of year. we'll see a little bit of that drop tomorrow into monday but then tuesday and wednesday, we're getting used to these 90s, at least it's just low 90s, by

thursday, friday and saturday. here comes the cooler weather, you would think it's going to be accompanied with a lot of fog and a strong onshore push but it's not. we're going to see some gusty north-northeast winds by the end of the weekend. 87 in santa clara and sunnyvale today, with los gatos warm 90. 84 in palo alto. low 70s with sunshine to start the day, and the clouds moving in around half moon bay. daly city in the low 70s so a mild day for you. up in the north bay, it's getting cooler slowly. 89 santa rosa, 86 for you around sonoma this afternoon and on the east bay, looking at those low 80s in hayward, so a little warm but certainly not as warm as it's been, a nice looking day in berkeley at 80 degrees. at least you're out of the 90s, right? it's been several days for all of us, it's been a warm trend and today lots of widespread 90s here from concord to the delta, and pleasanton. so above normal, not as hot as it's been, but we'll keep that trend with temperatures really warmer than they should be, even

though we will cool down right into tomorrow. the accuweather seven-day forecast featuring a little bit of fog later on today, some more hugging the coast through the overnight hours, bringing the temperatures down slightly into your monday, with 60s returning to the coast, 70s around the bay, but tuesday and wednesday we're warming up go enwith the wind shift and see those numbers coming down with the cooling trend thursday, friday and saturday, looks like in the mountains we could see a few light showers into friday and saturday, but otherwise those cooler temperatures will be accompanied by some gusty offshore winds into the weekend, so we'll be watching that for you. liz? >> lisa, thank you. jimmy kimmel returns with the new season of "who wants ta to be a millionaire?" this time it won't just be celebrities playing for charity. george pinnacciho explains. >> i believe in you, jimmy. >> reporter: tiffany haddish is the first star on "who wants to be a millionaire." >> in the sopranos final episode, tony is sitting at the

booth with his family before it fades to black. what is he eating? shrimp cocktail, chicken fingers, onion rings or nachos? >> we taped a bunch of episodes of "millionaire." i had a great time doing it and really love doing that show. it's a lot easier than my show. >> reporter: sometimes he's the one in for a surprise. >> damn, jimmy, i don't know, bro. >> whoa! >> reporter: one of several stars vying for the million-dollar prize for charity. we do know someone wins it but who? >> it's a combination of celebrities and people who have been affected by this scenario with the covid that we're in. so we're talking about nurses, firefighters, emts, that sort much thing. >> reporter: he's talking about some of our brave modern day heroes, people who risk their lives for the rest of us every day. he is proud to have them on the show. >> the non-celebrities are playing for themselves, so you

know, sometimes you're sitting there with somebody who makes $60,000 a year and they're playing for half a million dollars, and you know, that's not something i take lightly. i mean, i am probably as stressed as they are at that moment. >> reporter: george panachio for abc 7 news. >> tonight's premiere will include a special tribute to regis philbin who hosted "who wants to be a millionaire" from 1999 to 2002. philbin died in july. watch the remere tonight on abc 7:00 at 9:00 p.m. "frozen" fans are about to get chills. how bay area chef and supermom ayesha curry is celebrating the first anniversary of "frozen 2" and how you can join in on the r: she's a staple in

the stands bay area chef and supermom ayesha curry is teaming up with disney for the return of frozen fanfest. she'll host a virtual play date today to celebrate one year

since the release of "frozen 2." it will be fun for activities for fans of olaf, elsa and the gang, that includes the sing-along, a choreographed dance lesson and tutorial on drawing olaf from one of disney's own artists. >> i'm winning some points in my household because "frozen" is life. we have choreographed dance lessons my girls are excited about, an american sign language tutorial to "show yourself" which some are familiar with, so much more. i'll be cooking. it will be so much fun. >> participants will also get an exclusive first look at the trailer for "once upon a snowman" which debuts on disney plus this week, the parent company of abc 7. a lot of kids will be clamoring to do that today. >> some adults too, for sure. good morning, everyone. lots of sunshine here in san francisco, where it's going to be a nice day today. cooler than what we've had the past several days, that cooling trend will continue into monday, a bit of a reversal, subtle one tuesday and wednesday, and

looking at much cooler temperatures into next weekend. so the second half of this weekend featuring about 81 today in oakland. 75 in the city, the fog moves up very late, so count on some sunny skies at our beaches today. 82 in vallejo. 89 in san jose and the upper 80s in santa rosa. the accuweather seven-day forecast feeling pretty nice the next several days with light winds today, and the cooling trend tomorrow, then wind shift tuesday and wednesday, but as we cool off into next weekend, it's going to finally feel a little bit more like fall but those winds are going to be something to watch, liz, right into next weekend. >> absolutely. thank you, lisa. thank you for joining us here on "abc 7 mornings." i'm liz kreutz along with lisa argen. abc 7 news continues at 9:00 a.m. "good morning america" is next. have a great sunday.

good morning, america. the candidates focus on the midwest with the election barely two weeks away. president trump downplaying the threat to michigan's governor after that alleged kidnapping plot. >> i guess they said she was threatened. right? >> joe biden attacking the president for his previous comments about the governor. >> words matter. and the words of a president particularly matter. >> how the candidates are focusing on must-win states. call to vote. >> i'm voting this year because, well, come on. >> the celebrities leading a push to get you to the polls. and the lines you may see once you get there.