arting at $3.50. only at jack in the box. ama: , protesting a proposed recommended. dozens of people interrupt a meeting. dan: hazard from smoke person >> they are hero, rvivorshoe who are dealing with the kind of grief most people will never know. ama: it's been nearly three months since the daily mass at the vta light rail yard. tonight, when real service is expected to resume. announcer: building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. ama: good evening, thank you for joining us. i am at my larry: and i am larry beil. u're watching abc 7 news at 5:00 live in on hulu live and

wherever you stream. along the line of people waiting to comment at the city council meeting. our reporter joined us live outside city hall with the very latest. amanda: meeting was suspended for about an hour because of protesters. they gathered both inside and out of city hall. their message, they are against the city's proposed vaccine mandate for large events at city facilities. these photos were taken inside city hall chambers hours ago, protesters shouting over council members in an attempt to get their message heard. we are told there were more than 100 people initially. we saw many who were unmasked, these people feeling strongly that the city is overstepping its authority. >> no one should be coerced into a medical procedure, and that is what i am speaking out against. >> it is fine for people to be vocal, it is not fine for people

not to follow the rules. >>. >> we have mask rules in city hall. everyone has to wear a mask when you're inside and there were some people who got larger and about on. amanda: councilmember davis adding she is happy to listen to residents, but yelling out obscenities and refusing to follow rules is something counsel cannot allow. outside, more passionate about their affect to stop any city-regulated vaccine passport. we've passed today, the changes would not go into place effectively, and it would impact venues like the convention center and others. council members are expected to vote on that tonight. mayor liccardo is expected to address reporters tonight around 6:00. we are following developments from here and at san jose city hall. larry: amanda, you we will see you at 11:00 and at tahoe.sa:ow tdelopi ns g os f

17,000 buildings are threatened by the 117,000-acre fire, just 9% contained. 450 homes have been destroyed. more than fire threatens the tahoe area smoke has caused hazardous air quality in the region. our reporter spent today on social media, reaching out to people in the midst of it. reporter: how did it come to this? speaking to people in the lake tahoe region right now feels like interviewing prisoners locked inside. >> i started in mid to end july. and it could go -- i don't know how long. reporter: that is brandon schneider, and air quality expert in reno lamenting the absence of air quality, do mostly to the caldor fire pushing record amounts of unhealthy smoke. >> you want to see how bad it is in south lake tahoe? reporter: video has polluted

social media by anyone driving to the region. in an area known for wideouts in winter, now they are havings smokeout and suffering. >> you breathing it in the whole time you're out. >> this is worse than the days we had here in the bay area. it is pretty miserable. reporter: this is day four of the hazardous air that chokes and recedes, but never relieves as this time-lapse video shows. the residue, everywhere and inescapable. >> kind of covering anything. reporter: it is going into your lungs? >> yeah. 2.5. the smoke can go really deep into your lungs. reporter: that is 2.5 parts too many. a cloud so thick that it looks like a weather front when viewed by satellite. pain, the symptom and no immediate chance of parole for all those people locked up. stay inside, my friend. >> i will.

reporter: in san francisco, wayne freedman abc 7 news. larry: the poor air quality is causing school closures in nevada the second day in a row. schools except for one in this county were closed. the county, which includes reno, issued a stage three air-quality advisory for the first time ever, saying everybody should stay inside. you can see exactly why with the smoke so thick. meteorologist sandhya patel joins us with more on the terrible air quality. sandhya: it is awful, you can't even breathe because it is so dense. let me show you why. as we look at the visible satellite picture, the smoke is aimed right at tahoe, just pouring into the region. air quality is hazardous right around the tahoe area and surrounding areas are unhealthy. as we look at the smoke forecast for that region, that think smoke will remain over that region over thursday and even

beyond thursday. forecast models keeping it in that vicinity right on through monday of next week. i will be back with a local look at our air quality and our smoke forecast as well. ama: thank you so much. governor newsom talked about wildfires and climate c nghen the one with abc's matt gutman the grizzly flats near lake tahoe. they were in front of an elementary school that burned to the ground. >> it is sobering. this is right when school is about to reopen and here we are with yet another community wiped off the map. if there is a message to be sent, this is about traditions, about places being wiped off the map. ama: just awful. the governor said with the ongoing drought and temperatures, crews often don't have the luxury of time to get a leg up on the fires before they get out of control. the governor has petitioned the federal government for additional resources, including bringing more personnel to

california. rail service has been suspended following the deadliest mass shooting at the san jose railyard. we have details on when a new service might resume. reporter: the san antonio light rail station is one of the busiest the main source of riders, san jose state students. >> usually take the light rail because it stopped there and i walked over from the station. it is easy because you don't have to worry about parking. parking is horrible down here in the parking garage is always full. reporter: students have had to adjust their commute. the valley transportation authority stop light rail services after a mass shooting at the downtown railyard in may that led to the death of nine employees that day, and one more recently, but employees are set to return soon. >> i am encouraged that we are making significant progress. reporter: the general manager and ceo said trains will be back

on the track starting tonight for testing with operators, after spending the time off reels and platforms an platforms retraining employees. >> we have taken a trauma-informed approach in helping our employees come back. reporter: if all goes well, they hope to get back to helping the southbay commute once >> we will be not operating the full system, but we should have some service up and running for the 49er and raiders game. >> public transit is relevant to our community today, it will be relevant in the near future, and in the long-term future. reporter: with testing starting today, the vta ones to remind everyone to stay off the tax to

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larry: a new report has found vaccine efficacy drug to 56% with the delta variant. they found that drop from april to august. health-care workers were among the first in the nation to get vaccinated. the study measures vaccines' ability to prevent infection, but did not evaluate its ability to prevent severe illness and hospitalizations. ama: thousands of vaccines on the verge of hiring got a three month extension from the fda. we spoke to medical experts who

say vaccine doses are still being thrown out every day across the state. reporter: normally, vaccines are kept in special freezers and have a shelf life of six months. once open, they can only be used for three hours. nationwide, vaccines are sitting in freezers right now and expiring. others are going to waste because the vials are not being used. once considered liquid gold, now thousands of vaccines are going to waste. >> pharmacists are reporting doses being thrown out or even some of them expiring. >> certainly, some of the earlier shipments have an expiration date and they are expiring. the majority of vaccines were set to expire on august 31. last evening the fda extended that shelflife by three extra months. the public health officer said their time was running out. there are batteries, thousands

of vaccines that would have expired two months from now. luz: data obtained through a public records request points to 100 36,000 covid-19 vaccine doses going to waste in california since the rollout began. >> it is inevitable that there will be some that have been distributed down into health-care settings and into counties. reporter: dr. harris attributes the waste to two factors -- one, a decrease in demand, and 2 -- >> vials that have been opened for one patient and the remaining doses in the vial end up not getting used and discarded. reporter: the ceo of california's pharmacists association says they struggle with throwing away vaccines every day, but have no choice. >> gate is a moral dilemma when you have somebody presenting themselves to get a vaccination. you know if you open the vial, you may not be able to use it

all. reporter: once the vial is opened, vaccines lose efficacy after a couple of hours. . at stanford health-care. they noticed an uptick in vaccine waste in a month. >> probably 10% to 30% of vaccines from a single value. reporter: one county stopped requesting vaccines from the federal government. also, counties across the state are sharing doses. >> the doses we do not order are able to be redistributed across the nation. if the nation recognizes that we don't have an adequate supply, things at the federal level can be redistributed international. reporter: a painful reality, given in many parts of the world, people don't have access to vaccines. what is giving experts hope is that booster shots will be needed in the, coming months so some of those vaccines could be going into people's arms very soon. in the newsroom, luz pena, abc 7

news. ama: california's positivity rate has dipped again. hospitalizations are still going up. there are 8675 covid hospitalizations. hours ago, it was announced that outside -- will require vaccinations or a negative corporate test before larry: the family of the san quentin prison guard who died of covid-19 filed a civil lawsuit against top officials. . in the state department surgeon gilbert polanco died a year ago this month following an outbreak at the prison that killed many inmates and affected more than two dozen others. they claim the state made decisions that increased the risk of harm to their employees and inmates. >> basically, it officials created a covid cesspool and

then required their employees and inmates to marinate in it. larry: the outbreak at san quentin followed the transfer of 122 inmates from a state prison in chino during an outbreak there. the state department of corrections is not commenting on the suit. ama: as wildfires continue to rage an east bay nonprofit is help livestock owners. our reporter shows us how the group gets almost a safety. >> we began during the diablo fire. the fire was out of control. during that fire, nobody knew where they were going, they just knew there were animals and horses that needed help. we sat down and said, there has to be a better way to do this, and slowly pulled together until we came up with our organization. we went back there and organized the -- and rescued the horses. know we have turned into a full-blown evacuation team and rescued so we can help our community as much as we can. ♪

the name of our nonprofit is holding a horses livestock emergency and evacuation response team. during natural disasters, we focus on aiding and evacuation. following disasters, we started reaching out to animal owners to make sure they have everything they need including feed, medical supplies, medical supplies for themselves. we want to make sure the burden of taking care of their animals doesn't fall so hard on them. they just lost everything they own so we want to make sure we help them. during an evacuation times, we focus on rescuing larger animals. from abuse and neglect cases to owners undergoing hardships. we do our best to make sure they all live long and happy lives. ♪

during the campfire, we were up there for a long time evacuating animals. even on thanksgiving. we evacuated as many as possible and went back and fed those animals that were sheltered in place. . we were helping say one more life, which is always our goal. at the end, it is such a tremendous feeling not only that not only have you provided safety to these animals that potentially could have been stuck behind the fire lines, but the moment of reuniting the animal with thetouching becausee owners didn't think they would ever see their animals again. the look of relief is such a touching feeling and it is so amazing and makes us want to be working harder. it is thanks to all of our donors that give us that opportunity and that amazing chance to help all of these people. it is an amazing feeling, to say the least. ♪

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larry: the nation now has its transgender history month, the first, signed here in san francisco. >> it is very fitting that san francisco is the first to celebrate this historic milestone. it makes sense the rich history of our community here. it is the birthplace of the trans rights movements. larry: sister aroma from the sisters of perpetual indulgence hosted the event where mayor london breed signed the declaration making august transgender history month. it honors the 55th anniversary of the cafeteria riot at the tenderloin in august of

transgender women and gay men fought against police brutality, launching transgender activism in san francisco. let's move on and get a check on the weather. ama: and the air quality. [clearing throat. sandhyy if you have doing it in your nose as well if you are sensitive to smoke, that is because we have it in the upper parts of the atmosphere. look at air quality. the most part, it is good, but there have been pockets of poor quality like in the altamont and luke hoyer. compared to what tahoe is dealing with, it very unhealthy to hazardous. some of the worst air quality in the country. as we look at the hour-by-hour wind forecast, the direction of the wind will remain off the ocean floor and towards the lake tahoe area. so while our air quality remains decent, not so distant there.

the later shades of blue indicating less haze. later colors an roles, that is have -- later colors and purple is heavy smoke. for us it is pretty decent through tomorrow night. a live view, you can see how hazy it is. for us we are dealing with some haze. also the fog from the east hills camera. 61 in the city, 67 in oakland. certainly the smoke is playing a role in holding temperatures down. it has not really been hot. the warmest part is in the 80's. from our san jose camera, looking at a very hazy view. 68 in napa, the low 80's in fairfield. i think you will be seeing more of this tomorrow. the camera showing you blue skies, low clouds and patchy drizzle and a little warmer in the afternoon.

harder conditions in land the end of the week. today we still have the air quality advisory for wildfire smoke. but wednesday through friday, there is no advisory. we are expecting good to moderate air-quality the next three days. tomorrow morning, watch out for drizzle once again. we will have low clouds and higher clouds passing through for the afternoon and evening. morning temperatures in the 40's and 50's, so if your little ones are headed out to school, a light sweater or jacket will be handy because it is getting cooler overnight. mid-60's at the coast, 80's inland. areas of haze, but not quite as bad as what we have dealt with. accuweather seven-day forecast -- the heat spikes thursday and friday and going into the weekend, it will be in the upper 80's to the low 100s inland, upper 60's to the low 70's coast side. cooling begins next week and spreads by tuesday. larry: thank you, sandhya.

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for you, you can get our newscasts and weather alerts and more with our abc 7 app. just search abc 7 bay area, and download. larry: finally, a first look at the bay areas in u.s. professional sports facility. still a work in progress, but we got a sneak peek. ama: the arena will be home to the san jose." the american hockey league affiliate. it is part of the 200,000 square-foot expansion of sharks ice at san jose. it contains recreational ice sheets, bringing the buildings 's total to six. >> we started with two ice rinks, grew to three and four and we knew we had met a mistake and we should have built more. larry: the new arena is scheduled to open next august. the $120 million expansion will make it the largest ice facility in america under one roof. how cool would it be to see your

kid or even as an adult skate on the same price as the pros? yeah. world news tonight with david miller is next. ama: for all of us, thank you for joining

tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. president biden just moments ago on the emergency evacuations in afghanistan. what the president just said about getting americans and u.s. troops out by august 31st, one week from today. will he meet the deadline? and what about the afghans who helped the u.s.? and tonight, president biden on his concerns over the potential terror threat on the ground in afghanistan the longer the u.s. tonight, the pace of evacuations increasing dramatically. ian pannell reporting from