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please don't come here two weeks before classes start hundreds of stanford university rested in assistance, or ras are on strike what they're asking for up next marvel's new movie debuts tonight with some of its shot right here in san francisco and see why people line are hoping this movie sheds a positive light on the asian community sizzling summer heat and smoky skies your labor day weekend forecast. coming up abc 7 news at 11:00 starts right now. building a better bay area moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. we know people love tahoe. we feel your love up from from up here. but now it's just not the time to come. a warning to steer clear of south lake tahoe this holiday weekend as the kaldore fire isn't finished yet. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley and i'm on a date favorable conditions are helping firefighters on the front lines containment has ticked up to 32% the fire grew only slightly today the total size now passing 213,000 acres and some people

are returning home abc 7 news reporter kate larsen is tracking the progress tonight kate. well, you know alma 32% fire containment is significant. certainly good news, but i also spoke to a firefighter tonight who's on the front line, and he said they are weeks from wrapping up the colder fire and a shift in weather conditions for the worst could reverse all their progress. wind gusts fanning new flames at caples lake campground north of kirkwood ski resort and they're looking for spot fires jumping out half a mile to a mile from the this fire activity. it's taken place but cooler more humid conditions mean the colder fires grove has slope increasing black containment. means on the western side and that represents all the hard work that the firefighters on the ground have gone through to get there and that and that's getting us back to that repopulation evacuation orders have been lifted for many neighborhoods in the yellow zone, but just because you get released back doesn't mean that we're we're scott free fire marshall air gave vaunts is the caples lake and e.

areas, continue to be a challenge the fire actually moved pretty rapidly through that area some cabins were lost but many of the historic cabins were were saved avon spoke to us from a massive base camp set up in heavenly ski resorts parking lot more than 4,600 firefighters are on the calder fire house firefighter morale right now. you know, i think there's there's fatigue with the firefighters because there's been a lot of fires burning and they've been moved around from several and they've been moved around from several fires. so some of these guys haven't been for weeks going on months full containment isn't expected until the end of september but coming up sooner labor day weekend. when tahoe is usually bustling now covered in a smoky haze holmes are empty and many businesses closed a few people did sneak in his swim. despite the coast guard asking

everyone to avoid all activities on lake tahoe until the fire has subsided. we know people love tahoe we feel your love up from from up here, but now it's just not the time to come. so fire marshal gave on wanted me to share a couple things first that the fire clearance that so many people have done has saved many homes from the calder fire second how grateful fire crews are for everyone's support especially hotels in south lake tahoe that have been housing those exhausted firefighters. i'm kate larsen abc 7 news. okay, kate. thanks very much now as firefighters march into evacuated communities in south lake tahoe more help could be on the way for residents who've been forced to flee the city manager has requested. federal major disaster declaration from cal osha cal oes i should say this would be an addition to appro by president biden that happened earlier this week abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman spent the day on the front lines of the firefight. he has more now from south lake tahoe. the immediate future of what

happens and still evacuated south lake tahoe. i want clear air. you come to tahoe for clear air. it all depends on events in the surrounding mountains where the kalador fire still smolders and burns but threatens less as cal fire takes nothing for granted is this over? no, this is not over this isn't the end. it's not the beginning of the end. it's the end of the beginning and that still means plenty of work ahead. but we found optimism as forest service crews continue to clear trees along highways to fire breaks it seems like the fire is kind of running out of fuel in some areas. but not elsewhere especially in the heavy backcountry and even in christmas valley this morning. this is the kind of work that has firefighters frustrated sudden hot spots popping up like this keeping them busy with the winds that have been coming off the canyons. we're seeing embers that are moving up to three quarters of a mile in indie direction weather

and fire potential all way into the question of off lake tahoe and this region might open up again to 50,000 evacuees first. i'll need to stop out all the neighborhood hot spots fell dangerous trees check power and utilities all of that needs to be checked in addition to the fire behavior itself. so even when firefighters describe this as a day for mop up as they did and even if trends look good. no as they say the calendar fire is not yet over. and that is where we stand tonight. a holiday weekend when south lake tahoe and this restaurant behind us would normally be filled with people. when will they return we still don't know? in south lake tahoe wayne freedman abc 7 news new at 11 cal fire gave us this behind the scenes look at the teamwork. it takes to fight these large fires. it's a group effort. not only on front lines, but for the situation unit putting together the maps for the daily brief as well.

now smoke from the wildfires burn. our north still drifting into the bay area. maybe you've noticed this video from our tower cameras earlier today shows the layer of hays stretching from san francisco to oakland very clear in those images abc 7 news meteorologist sandy patel keeping a very close eye on the air quality and whether it's going to improve sandia over the labor day weekend, dan it is not going to improve but let me just show you what it looks like right now moderate air quality here across most of the bay area. that's how it was today as you look at the smoke forecast. we're going to continued to see the impacts of those wildfires burning to our north with the air quality being impacted still some hays the good news is most of that will be in the upper layers of the atmosphere. so not exceeding federal health standards, but if you are sensitive to smoke limit your outdoor time a live look from our exploratorium camera. we do have an air quality advisory through monday through labor day. so moderate for the next four days, even though that advisory expires on monday. i want to show you a time lapse layers of fog and and smoke up

above very clear here. i'll be back to tell you about the heat for the weekend coming right up amma. alright, thank you, sandia developing news now at stanford where hundreds of resident assistants also known as ras are on strike. they're in charge of keeping dormitories safe, but tonight they say their safety isn't being prioritized abc 7 news reporter lose pain. yes spoke to several ras who are part of the group asking for higher pay and better covid guidelines. less than two weeks before stanford university students. go back to campus hundreds of ras are refusing to work unless they're demands are met stafford is currently paying ras about 3,800 at stafford university is about 18,000. so if you do a math is not enough. no, we're essentially paying the work. we spoke to choose stanford our race who asked to remain anonymous in fear of retali. and are you scared? are you doing this?

you're speaking out absolutely as a student. i'm very very fearful because i'm only one piece and stanford. is this huge elite institution the strike comes several days after at least one of the ras tested positive for covid-19 following an indoor in person training event. they packed us all into like a 500 person auditorium and a couple days later. we found out that a student actually was covid even though all stanford students are mandated to be fully vaccinated this group of ras once more covid safety guidelines and to move their training sessions online. they're also asking for the reversal of an alcohol policy where students used to drink with their doors open, but now they can close them five freshmen were like, um transported via hospital because of alcohol posting because of this new policy regarding the strikes stanford university said in part, budgeting has allocated an additional 2.3 million

dollars a year for residential students staff pay in the coming weeks. we will continue to work with students under questions and concerns as we prepare to welcome students back to campus but these students say they're not backing down. how long is this strike going to go for and so stanford university has reached the demands that we posted in palo alto luz pena abc 7 news. and uptick in covid-19 hospitalizations in the central valley has triggered the state's surge protocol for icu capacity the san joaquin valley region is made up of 12 counties including fresno were said and kern counties. the search protocol is activated when less than 10% of icu beds are available for three days. it allows for regional hospitals to transfer patients to and beds where available concern is high about the potential for a new nationwide covid surge over the labor day holiday the us recorded its 22nd consecutive day with more than 100,000 new

daily cases on thursday meanwhile vaccination numbers also continue to tick up health officials report 1.4 million vaccine doses were administered over the last 24 hours including 550,000 newly vaccinated people, but tonight there are reports the biden administration will delay the september 20th deadline to start offering boosters for pfizer and moderna shots. this comes just as moderna announced today. it has finished submitting its data on boosters to the fda vta. putting more of its light rail service starting tomorrow service on the blue line from bay point to the children's discovery museum will return the green line from iron signs to diridon station. also coming back the orange line returned last sunday just in time for the 49ers final preseason game at levi's stadium. fires and floods as the aftermath of ida continues to be destructive the heart stopping moment proving the power of mother nature and after a two-year pandemic delay bottle

rock is back and a last-minute headliner switch shakes up the first day. plus marvel movie magic takes over san francisco. we'll take you to some of the locations. where shung chi was filmed as it makes its debut abc 7 news [music] 'my own garden is my own garden,' said the giant, so he built a high wall all around it. then one morning the giant heard some lovely music. through a little hole in the wall, the children had crept in. and the giant's heart melted... and they found the giant...all covered with blossoms. boost and cricket charge you more for unlimited 5g.

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from the severe weather. are in new jersey one family had a narrow escape. look at this when the walls of their home caved in from the fast-moving flood water at least 11 deaths in new york city have been linked to illegally converted seller and basement apartments ideas. now the deadliest tropical system to hit the us in the past four years and abc has an easy way to help victims of hurricane aida via the red cross go to red cross.org slash donate online. the san francisco emergency operations center is urging travelers to vigilant as they set out for the long labor day weekend today sfo reported less than half the number of passengers that it typically saw on a holiday weekend pre-pandemic even so health officials are reminding everyone to consider the risks of large gatherings and show proof of vaccination wherever that is required new at 11 starting next month. american airlines says it is ending pandemic leave for unvaccinated employees if staff members can't provide a vaccination card, they will have to use sick.

or medically leave if they miss work due to covid-19. this move comes after united airlines became the first us carrier to require vaccinations for all of its domestic employees. first time since the pandemic the three-day music and food festival in napa is sold out 87 food and wine vendors have set up shop country music group the high women are closing out tonight after headliner. chris stapleton canceled due to a non-covid illness after two years of no music festivals fans were ready for a live show. oh, yeah. we're so excited. it's like finally, you know kind of coming out. for you know for everyone right? just a reminder if you are attending this weekend proof of vaccination or a negative covid test is required for entry. well the new marvel movie song chi and the legend of the ten rings debuts this weekend. it features several scenes that were actually filmed in san

francisco abc 7 news reporter. ryan curry gives you a look at what the filming was like and why are locals are so excited about the message that this movie sends out. it's the latest. blockbuster from the marvel franchise chong chi and the legend of the ten rings hits the theaters this weekend for people in. cisco it's a proud moment. especially since some are in the movie a bunch of asian. found this found about this about two years before even phil came here to film timmy leong was an extra during one of the climatic scenes a bus crash right off taylor and bush streets. they turned taylor street around the other way. so it's one way going down this way. so the bus was creating crazily zigzagging down the street leong says he worked four days while film crews put together that one scene the majority of us worked. we worked on this side because there's a crash on lsi. so the bus aquapinas driving comes down bush. it's zigzagging through the block and it crashes into two

cars. and then that's where the strengthy was fighting in the back. his role was only just to stand on the sidewalk but to him all that mattered was being in the first superherohov an asian lead the first asian superior, and it's a marvel movie. so i mean even just being background in it. it was exciting that same enthusiasm carried over at a watch party at the kabuki theater in japan town or members of san francisco is asian community. we're eager to watch how san francisco was portrayed actually having an aapi character featured in a movie. in san francisco is just reflective of our community as a whole and for leong he hopes this movie gives kids a new role model. i'm just hoping that this movie will do what black panther did the african american community what it'll do to asian america community in san francisco ryan curry abc 7 news a lot of excitement about that film and everything that it stands for. absolutely. all right. well, we're getting ready for the weekend. sandy tells here. that's right an ama and dan the

weekend looks fantastic. we have a nice variety of weather coming your way. i do want to show you a from earlier tonight mount tamkam. well, it was hard to miss the haze and the air laying right above the fog layer. the fog layer has compressed tonight. it was a little bit warmer today. we're going into even warmer weather for the upcoming holiday weekend want to show you the smoke from the wildfires. you can see those smoke right around northwestern california the northern portion the eastern portion of the state and some of that smoke just coming right into our region, which is why we were seeing it and our air quality is being impacted it is moderate across most of the bay area. it's worse as you will notice near the caldorf fire where it is unhealthy and even parts of the northwest, california coastline looking at unhealthy air quality. the good thing is because of lighter winds crews have been making progress and i think the weather is going to cooperate for them as you take a look at the smoke forecast. it's going to be still smokey right near the fire zones here in the bay area. you will notice some moderate

air quality tomorrow afternoon because the smoke and the haze continue to impact. going into sunday morning as well might be a little bit heavier a sunday morning. now if you're going to bottle rock in napa valley, we're looking at really nice weather mid to upper 80s saturday and sunday hazy skies though low 50s in the morning best to take that sunscreen. you might need a baseball cap as well as you take a look at the giants and dodgers forecast at oracle park tomorrow night 63 degrees dropping down to about 57 so it should be comfortable weather. for that game now looking at live doppler 7 right now. we do have some fog near the coastline. it's really not going to go very far. maybe just locally or across the bay and that's about it tomorrow morning temperatures right now in the 50s and 60s sfo camera showing you a very shallow marine layer right now, and here's a look at the forecast hazy skies through labor day. it's sizzling summer heat inland mild at the coast. we're looking at cooler weather on tuesday now cooling tomorrow morning down to the 40s 50s fog will be right around the coast.

inas we head into the afternoon hours definitely count on a warmer day. it's short sleeve weather in the south bay 93 gilroy 85 in san jose's 84 in santa clara santa cruz 77 degrees mid-80s round redwood city 82 los altos 67 and half moon bay 70 in downtown san francisco north bay temperatures 87 in san rafael up to 90, calistoga 88 in santa rosa and hazyn the east bay 76 oakland 84 fremont. inland areas will be on the hot and haz. 94 concord 96 in livermore accuweather 7-day forecast the sizzle continues triple digits sunday monday inland 60s coast side, and then you'll see a sharp drop in those temperatures right around the bay and inland for tuesday back into the seasonal range. midweek danna. maybe our last triple digits of the season. we'll see never know. all right, a photo contest takes us into the wild from the depths of the sea to the heights of the sky how it's bringing humor. life around the gl

competition. look at that designed to get you to marvel at nature and laugh at it as well. check out some of the finalists in the 2021 comedy wildlife photo awards 42 images made the cut out of more than 7,000 entrants. you can help pick the winner at comedy wildlifephoto.com voting closes, october 12th pucker up. oh this one. i love mama. i love the snake the best but i wonder if that sea turtle or tortoise. i know i'm gonna mess. whatever species that was was it flipping the bird to the dodgers? oh, maybe that's a question. larry could answer that. i'm gonna say yes tense playo type atmosphere tonight giants and dodgers begin. fight for first place an extras extras. you're not going to believe ge d ju

your local toyota dealers good evening. wow biggest series of the year for the giants coming in at a tie for first place with the dodgers three games to determine who's in i've receipt in the final weeks of the season. hey, look my souvenir patties right here if i could just get it through the spins. all right weird move gabe kapler pinch hits for cleanup man lamont way junior in the third austin slater makes it work. rbi single scores anthony dieselfani who pitched well one nothing giants top nine will smith grounds to tyro estrada throws to buster posey. justin turner in the pickle ends up on third with corey seeger who's tagged out and if buster tag turner when he stepped off third, the game would have been over instead. two outs in the ninth and confusion here. some people were on posey on twitter critical. but anyway, chris taylor with a flare into no man's land that scores turner were tied at one dodgers had to run on the 10th to go up 2-1 bottom 10, brandon crawford base hit buster puts it in a 're tie two bottom 11, it's posey again a rocket trey

turner all star throw pools will smith off the bag brandon belt scores, everybody safe and the giants win three two, they take a one game lead over. i gave two of the series is tomorrow night as in toronto. this game was nuts and heartbreaking tony camp got dirt in his eye needed drops mid at bat. then follows it with the two-run homer to make it six two the a's built it eight two cushion, and that's when things went terribly wrong after bob melvin pulled shawn mania toronto with a six spot on the 8th lourdes. gorio jr. grand slam. we're tired today bullmail. stoic really top nine mark hanna this one blastne blastne blastnt let's bash but bottom nine former ray marcus simeon a three-run cloud officer sergio romo. walk off three-run jack. good night game over drive homer the a's 11-10 jays. defending us open championship naomi osaka in trouble tonight

against 18 year old layla fernandez third round action here second set tiebreak frustration for osaka who slammed a rock racket down not once but twice another smash there triple match point osaka hits wide fernandez with the upset five seven six seven six four osaka clearly was not right after the match said she was not sure when she would play. and check out the scene in blacksburg, virginia, virginia tech took the field against north carolina tonight. 66,000 body to body forget about masks social distancing. the hokies are playing and they won an upset 1710. hope everybody's safe abc 7 sports sponsored by your local

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so, we're at the sharks exhibit, our newest exhibit at the academy, and it's a fantastic exhibit. you're gonna learn a lot about 20 or 30 species of shark, but there's many more out there. it's gonna pique your curiosity. so, as you walk in, there's two different things you're gonna see. one is really immersive video. so you're gonna almost feel like you're diving with the sharks. and another one is shark life-size models. so, there's shark models that's the exact size of shark, so you're gonna have a really good idea of how big those sharks are and what they look like underwater. ♪ sharks are very important for the ecosystem. they are in the top of the food chain, so they are what we call top predators. so, that way, they control everything else below them in the food chain. so, they eat the large fish. the large fish eat the smaller fish. the smaller fish eat the smaller fish. so, if we remove the sharks, there is going to be an imbalance in the food chain in the whole ecosystem, and then things are gonna get out of whack. we are gonna either too much kelp or too much urchins or not

enough kelp or not enough urchins because there's not enough predators around. so, sharks are very important in any ecosystem they occupy. sharks are extremely intelligent animals. they are not going after humans for food. they know that humans are not food, for the most part. when attacks do happen, it's for two main reasons. it's either because they're mistaken -- if it's murky water with a lot of waves. that's why you hear about sharks attacking surfers -- because, usually, in places where surfers surf, the waves are breaking. the water's really murky, and the sharks attack by mistake. the other one is when people are trying to feed them or trying to interact with them in some way. but most of the time -- i think 90% of the encounters with sharks -- you are not even going to see the shark. the sharks are gonna see you. they're gonna turn around and swim out. there's a video of my team -- we're diving in an island in brazil -- and there's this huge, like, 20-foot-long shark -- six-gill shark -- that comes right above our heads and then swims off. and neither one of us saw it. the only person that saw it was the guy that was filming. all of the other divers in the

dive never even saw the shark. it just swam away. it didn't bother us. we didn't bother it. ♪ so, when people think about sharks as dangerous animals, as i said earlier, sharks attack only one or two people per year, at the very most. but we humans -- we kill over 70 million sharks per year. so, if there's anything that's dangerous, it's us to sharks. not the other way around. that's either bycatch -- so, as humans, we don't really go to the fish market and look for sharks. it's not something very popular that we do. so, the sharks that are caught, it's either by bycatch -- so they're accidentally caught when they're fishing for something else -- or they are caught for their fins, which is a very detrimental practice because it's really easy to overfish shark when you're fishing for their fins. they don't need refrigeration. you can stay a long time at sea just killing the sharks, taking their fins out, and then tossing