>> abc 7 news insider joining is now along with liz and phil. let's start where liz left off. well, we will have to wait on phil because he cannot hear. liz, you have been covering this for months, do you think a visit by the president or vice president will really make a difference in this case, our people likely to rally behind that? >> it really depends on the voter that you ask. in some ways it is going to energize democrats, you will see these big-name politicians here, you will also get the news headlines that president biden or vice president harris is here. that the same time, we are

just seven days away. whether that tips the balance is still to be determined. dan: also today, that president focused on the latino community. the question is, why is he not tracking the way he did in 2018 in his gubernatorial election with this group? what does he need to do to get out that vote? liz: latino voters are an interesting demographic, not monolithic at all. i did speak to the voter who you heard who is a supporter of governor newsom's and she was saying that many of her friends who are latino are simply confused about the ballot. and that is not just specific to latino voters, a lot of voters are confused about how the ballot works, unsure how to fill it out. the same time, latinos are a group that have been hugely, disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. a lot of them are small business

owners and essential workers, who i think might have distrust towards governor newsom right now. >> interesting. let's bring in phil. the latest polling shows the recall is likely to fail. feels like the governor has opened up a little bit of a gap here. but as we have seen certainly in 2016, who knows what the polls are going to show and whether they can be believed or not. phil: that's right, they are ok if you're trying to do strategy but they are not the election results. let's face it, somebody calls you and asks how you are going to vote, you might answer or you might just not. internet polls are very popular now. again, people feel there is a record being cap to what they're saying, and there is. one of the polls, ppic, which isn't bipartisan, says the recall goes down 58-39. others have it neck and neck.

right now this thing is still very fluid. yes, momentum is shifting towards governor newsom. that is in part because we are in the bay area and everybody in the bay area seems to be on his side right now. >> so the polls can be iffy. liz was out there today and saw a decidedly lighter mood from governor newsom and he feels like his chances are better now that it is down to him and larry elder. is it helpful or hurtful to him that some of the republicans? are down to single digits? phil: it is, he did not want a moderate alternative to him, he wanted somebody that was definitely on the conservative side, that they could take those soundbites and say, this person is on this, he will rescind the covid vaccine mandates and the mask mandates. they are making it very much about covid, how you will handle the pandemic, and larry elder was made for that.

the flipside, it is bringing attention to larry elder and increasing his stature. is it enough? that remains to be seen. but governor newsom wants this to be about the other side and that is what he is doing. kristen: great points. thank you so much, phil and liz. >> to this, our california recall special saturday night at 10:00 p.m.. liz will look at the current recall as well as the last one in 2003 that ended with arnold schwarzenegger becoming the governor of california. kristen: a fire department water tender responding to a grass fire in oakley crashed and overturned. we were over the scene. according to the east contra costa fire district one person, suffered minor injuries. a water tender track is on a tank, on wheels essentially, caring water to places where there are no fire hydrants.

>> authorities in sonoma county are looking for the person or mo than a dozen fires in andi around the town of healdsburg. cruz pounced on hotspots like the one you see this morning on healdsburg avenue, after standing guard around town for several hours. first call came in around 8:00 last night, and it became clear that somebody was doing this on purpose. >> fire crews are stretched thin due to the number of fires that went on for about 90 minutes, 20 to 30 minutes, another fire was set. >> crews responded to at least 10 fires on the north side and the west side of town in about an hour and half. think, no homes damaged, but the number of blazes and the fact that someone is setting them, has left residents stand and upset, and say they will not feel safe until the arsonist is caught. kristen: fire crews are making progress on two wildfires

burning in northern california. the dixie fire is burning mostly in butte and plumas counties. the caldor fire is burning in el dorado and amador counties. favorable conditions are sparing the south lake tahoe area. overall, containment of the fire that has burned 216,000 acres stands at 49% now. and the dixie fire is now 59% contained. it has ripped through 917,000 acres and is just 115,000 acres shy of passing last year's august complex fire as the largest blaze in state nearly 6000 homes remain threatened, while april of 1282 structures including 688 homes have been destroyed. that makes it the 14th most destructive wildfire in state history. larry: and while progress is being made on those fires, officials say we are still in the middle of wildfire seasons,

and are urging californians not to get complacent. >> our predictive services have put out their three-month outlook for september through december. the entire state shows drier, more wind events, and a large fire activity to continue for the next three months. larry: officials say everybody in the state needs to be vigilant. if you see smoke, call it in. don't assume somebody else already did that. also, be prepared, have a go-bag ready, and if you get an evacuation order, leave. don't try to hang around and gather stuff, get out when they tell you to. let's get to the conditions, so hot especially inland, spencer. spencer: especially inland, and that allows for the continuing buildup of smoke and haze and the decline in air quality. our air quality is improving as we look at the bay area, lots of green dots and a few yellows,

indicating moderate air quality. this is brought to us by the helpful, beneficial sea breeze. not very strong right now, but stronger than it was this time yesterday. it appears from our air quality forecast that the sea breeze will bring us continuously improving air quality wednesday through saturday. improving from moderate, may a few areas of good air quality, to mainly good for the entire bay area. the sea breeze will continue pushing that smoke to the east, which is good for the weather forecast for cooler weather later. kristen: spencer, thank you. parking problems. a new plan in the southbay. the people fighting it and those who say they just need a little help. and it is not just the governor facing a recall, the other recall that

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kristen: in the southbay, a new safe, parking site for people living in their rvs opened up in san jose today. it can hold up to 20 as abc 7 news reporter dustin dorsey found out, and neighbors are not happy about the new parking plan. [protestors chanting] reporter: chance for change. protesters of the new rv safe

working out in the open in san jose. they say no one approached them about the decision, and they say that while they say that whether or not i guess the homeless, they are worried about the precedent. >> they need a chance to come out and spend their time in a safe environment, without the parents worrying about what will happen. reporter: rvs pulling into the location past protesters at the temporary safe site at vista montana. home safe is assisting the city of san jose with the project. the ceo says similar sites they have worked with have proven to be safe. >>. >> crime has not increased. property values have not dropped. children have not been taken against their will. the neighborhoods look better because people are taken from the street and housed in your neighborhood so now your neighborhood is safer for everyone. reporter: apple is planning to put their new campus, where the work is being done to clear out where the rvs used to be. but as you can see, there are

still a few vehicles on location. the owners tell me they are now facing a whole new battle. >> people trust and trust and they're going to help us, and they didn't help! reporter: anger, sadness, fear. before they could move to the new parking out, these two had their rvs broken into. they were told their vehicles would be safe until they moved. their trust, damaged. belongings, taken. worried about what comes next. >> i am worried about safety, and everyone else's safety as well. >> they broke in to steal stuff from people that are down on their luck. why? we are going to lose everything! and have to start from below where we were before. [crying] and it's hard. it is hard to start over. reporter: in north san jose, dustin dorsey abc 7 news. larry: it is not just the governor's nikol going on right now, there is another recall

effort in san francisco s. today, dozens of boxes with signatures were delivered to city hall. our education reporter with more on the process. [cheers] >> it took seven months to collect the required signatures in the recall effort to get three san francisco school board members. let's remind you who they are. gabriella lopez, who is the current president of the board. foul, liga, vice-president, and commissioner allison collins. this is one of the parents who initiated the process in february. >> the people have said they want you to leave if you don't care about our children and education, leave! reporter: roughly 51,000 signatures were needed to put each name on the ballot. the group hundred and 81,000 signatures for lopezthsame numb collins, 77,004 mol

iga. the attorney for the recall effort says the board made an array of bad decisions. >> not allowing in-person teaching during the pandemic, the murals at washington high school, then renaming. they are making decisions that are hurting the students that they claim to be helping, and hurting the entire city. reporter: there are seven school board members, so why recall only three? >that's because the other four were elected in november, 2020. therefore, they would not qualify for a recall. voters will decide how the recall goes in the special election next february. if successful, mayor london breed will take it from there. >> the charter indicates that the mayor will appoint someone once an office is vacated. there is no timeframe. reporter: anyone appointed by the mayor would have to run in the next election after the recall. [applause]

. reporter: in san francisco, leon melendez, abc 7 news. larry: alright, let's try to the forecast. spencer, iheart and holiday weekend. and a few more days of heat like this? larry: yes, a couple more. not quite as hot last night as it was -- not quite as hot tonight as it was yesterday. here is a look at our windspeed. nice onshore breeze. is not cooling down the inland areas that it is helping clear the air out. 15-22 miles per hour wind speeds in most locations. here is the view, this sky is looking fair. you can still see the haze in the distance. san francisco, 65. oakland, 74. mid-to-upper 80's in mountain view and san jose. here is the view from the east bay hills. the haze at much more visible in this direction, more of the pollution is collecting -- more smoke collecting in the inland

valleys. 96 in santa rosa. . 83 at napa. 101 in fairfield. this time yesterday, fairfield was 107. here is the view from here, looking at the makings of the marine layer. lower clouds pushing onshore. these are forecast features, we expect 100 degree heat and above inland again tomorrow. a much cooler pattern at the end of the week. and along with that, improving air quality as well. here is the overnight forecast animation showing the development of patchy low clouds in the coast, and locally over the bay, lots of high clouds overhead as well. it will be a shallow marine layer. it will have a presence at the coast. overnight low temperatures will be on the mild side, even milder than this morning. look for low 60's around the bay shoreline and down into the south bay, mid-to-upper 60's in inland east bay.

low of 72 in antioch. tomorrow we expect highs of 70 in san francisco, low-to-mid 80's around the bay shoreline. triple digits in the inland east bay. 102 in any of. 104 in fairfield. 100 in cloverdale. in the southbay, a high of 90 at san jose. let me show you the air quality forecast again. we expect moderate to good air quality tomorrow and then expanding areas of good air quality across the bay area friday through saturday. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. after tomorrow's excessive inland heat, we will see minor relief on thursday as inland highs reached the mid-to-upper 90's. friday, highs only in the low 90's inland. a much cooler and more comfortable pattern saturday into next week. it is going to be lovely once we get there once we get there.

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effects, including physical and mental issues caused by the attacks. abc news reporter rena roy explores how one program is helping survivors move forward. >> i was sitting here reading my paper, when i heard the noise. reporter: it is the deafening sounds and the sudden screams for help that even 20 years later, doris still can't shake. >> the sound was unbearable, it was, my god, that plane is flying awfully low. when i looked down, i heard a crash. reporter: the scenes from her lower manhattan apartment just blocks from the trade center. >> a lot of people were running that way. the second plane came this way. reporter: replaying in her mind every day especially come september. >> when it came out of the lobby i saw the tower burning. i started to scream and said, people are jumping, people are jumping. the policeman stopped me and says, you can't go back to your house. reporter: doris stayed with her

friend for more than a week before coming back home to a neighborhood forever changed. when you got back, what did it look like? >> it looked white. blake snell. but it was -- like snow. but it was dust. i said i am going to clean it. reporter: she believes the cleanup of toxic dust did some major damage. three years later, two bouts of pneumonia revealing breathing issues. >> i am sure they found something in my lungs. they found out that i had copd. reporter: she paid thousands for medication over the years out of her own pocket until she got a letter in 2015 explaining she was eligible for the world trade center health program, which offers free health care for 9/11 related conditions. hispanic federation president and ceo frankie miranda is working to reach more survivors in hopes of getting them the help they need. >> they always suspected something was wrong and there

was something that really triggered the symptoms. but now, to be able to connect what happened to them mentally and physically, it is really transforming lives. reporter: the federation estimates about 400,000 people were here in the downtown new york city area that day and in the following weeks and may have been affected physically or mentally but only a fraction of them have taken advantage of the program. the program also offers resources like therapy. >> they did a number on me. i am suffering from panic attacks and i am depressed and sad. anxiety. reporter: and as they remember two decades later, a reminder there is still a long road ahead for so many in this country. >> of course, we don't want to forget, but it is like i say, you have a cut and somebody keeps doing that, it never heals. reporter: reena reporter: reena

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>> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. kristen: the quick look at today's current affairs headlines. health officials are keeping a close on a vibrant of the virus called mu. it has been detected in every state except alaska. added to the list today was t nation of brunei. children make up more than a quarter of the u.s. covid cases, according to the american academy of pediatrics.

larry: dr. anthony fauci says he believes three doses of an mrna covid vaccine like pfizer or moderna will become the norm at some poi the white house is still aiming for a september 20 timeline to begin rolling out booster shots, but found she says we need to do more to convince millions of unvaccinated americans to skip the first shot. >> when you give the person the third boost, you dramatically increase the level of protection even more so than before the boosting goes up to and beyond the level of protection. so i believe strongly that ultimately we are going to see that as the proper regimen, three doses of an mrna. we have 75 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated and who are not yet vaccinated. if we get the overwhelming majority of those people vaccinated, we can turn this around. larry: except, we are not turning around now. the numbers are not looking great. california's top doctors are concerned about a possible fifth wave following a busy labor day weekend. >> this is not the time to throw

up your arms and dance for joy that this is gone. it isn't. it is going to be around for a while. larry: abc 7 news reporter stephanie sierra spoke to experts about what we can expect in the weeks to come. stephanie. reporter: larry, throughout the pandemic, the data from previous surges has guided what we can expect moving forward. epidemiologists are concerned gatherings over liberty will mirror a similar but slightly smaller spike. just as we thought the bay area's fourth wave was starting to plateau -- >> cases are going up in several counties in the bay area right now. . it is on the order of a few hundred more per week. that is a troublesome scenario. reporter: as a ucsf dr. rutherford explains, it takes a week after a holiday weekend to see the impacts of an incoming surge. the question is, should we expect it here in the bay area? >> there is potential for that.

hopefully it will be less than what we saw in july. reporter: stanford infectious disease physician dr. lu has studied surge patterns but the pandemic. she believes it could be lower because of mandates for masks indoors, the recommendation we didn't have lead into the fourth surge. >> that has changed now. i am hoping people have been more cautious over the labor day. reporter: more than 159,000 people deported through sfo in the last four days. >> any situation where people are potentially bringing virus from an area where there is a lot of infections to an area where they are not that many infections, is concerning. reporter: experts warn the other concerning factor is the variant's infection rate. data analysis from abc found there were on average 420 six

cases reported on august 2, the weekend leading. , the average jumped to 482 daily covid cases. >> you look at great britain, they had a covid peak that came up and then drop down. it was like a saddle, it went back up again. reporter: do you think that will happen here? >> there is no way to tell one way or the other, but it is cautionary. we need to avoid crowds and maintain social distance. reporter: to add to that, we should expect a higher demand for testing after big holiday travel i tried to find a covid test at a couple of walgreens and cvs locations in the city over the weekend, and they were sold out. as i found out, some people were trying to buy out the shelves in some of these stores. now you can only buy four covid test study time at some walgreens locations. larry: yes, those tests are

great, assuming you can find one. i know you have been tracking the rate of vaccination in the state. are we seeing the numbers go up since the last search at all? reporter: sadly, larry, it hasn't, not in the bay area or the state. july 4, 51% of californians were fully vaccinated. up until yesterday, september 6, the percentage only jump to 56%. we have been sitting within the 50% range for a while now. larry: who cap 5% in two months? stephanie: yes. larry: not great. thank you, stephanie. a covid-19 outbreak has sickened thousands of staff and inmates at this jail in dublin. 46 inmates have come down with covid. nine are showing symptoms. 10 staff members also tested positive. the cases were discovered during regular testing. kristen: starting today, san francisco unified employees will be required to be fully vaccinated or get a test at least once a week.

last week the district said 96% of staff that reported their vaccination status are fully vaccinated. that is 8919 out of nearly 10,000 staff members. volunteers are needed to assemble covid testing kits for bay area schools. a company that pivoted from cancer research to covid testing to help meet demand, needs help getting the kidt really need to go. s we paid them a visit today. >> this company needs 50,000 covid test kits assembled by volunteers. everyone from couples celebrating an anniversary to boy scouts to east bay students, they have all offered to back up the swab and the tube, most bound for bay area schools. >> the unified school district, palo alto unified school district, contra costa unified school district, dublin unified school district -- >> they are relying on you to test staff and students? >> correct. and faculty. reporter: out of 600 tests

administered as of september 2 five of them had positive covid results, so we were able to work on next steps for those positive covid cases. reporter: the lab that handles school results is in hayward. so far they have processed 350,000 test kits. the company since staff directly to school campuses to do the testing. they partnered with a nonprofit called "help test bay area," in a bid to round up more volunteers. >> the entry to testing, we have doctors, nurses, pa's, web designers, to somebody working down the street, every background, working together to help the community. reporter: since they have struggled to hire the help they need they are relying on volunteers from a nonprofit to accelerate school testing in the fall semester. larry: coming up, las vegas --

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built -- a city built around being sustainable. he wants residents to have equal access to health care, transportation and workability. he wants the city to have autonomous driving cars and electric aircraft to help people get around. he wants the first residents to move in by 2030. a city from scratch. who is interested? an? dan: it is one of those compelly as we face all the challenges and the angst and the executive we have dealt with in the last year or so with the pandemic. but it looks good on paper, doesn't it? human interaction -- it is complicated. it will not a utopian society probably. what are all these people going to do for work when they get there? it is a great idea. i love the self-sustaining part and the sustainability part, but

easier to draw up than to do reality. spencer: sounds like a nice vision, nice dream, nice little fantasy, but it is tough to make those things work. [laughter] dan: if it works, i am in. [laughter] >> i am assuming, is he going to pay for it? the billionaire? kristen: no. the land belongs to a community foundation. you can only open the house on top of the land but not the land itself. i am not sure i would be comfortable with that. larry: it is fixed selling property in hawaii. we don't have enough time on the floor and four to get into that. el salvador started a small financial revolution that some residents think will backfire. the country has become the first to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. one coastal village has been accepting bitcoin for years now. the country's president and not the government purchased 200

bitcoins. unfortunate timing, because in the last 24 hours, el salvador purchased 550 bitcoin, worth more than $25 million but it. packed over the weekend and lost about $6,000. not fantastic, but it is a long journey. anyway, not everybody is convinced, because more people will not be able to afford it. and here there's a chance to educate folks. you don't have to buy a whole bitcoin. you could buy a very small amount of coin and still use that for transactions. the idea behind this is, let's say, whether it is el salvador, venezuela, there is a lot of countries where you have taken virtually a suitcase to buy a loaf of bread. it is easier to deal with a crypto that is reliable, assuming you think bitcoin is reliable. still, we are a long way from mass adoption. larry: it is interesting, the

ebb and flow of bitcoin and cryptocurrency is fascinating. four people will not be able to afford it, everyone else will not be able to understand it. that is ongoing. even if you think you understand it, you don't understand it. kristen: i get whiplash just looking at the ups and downs. all right, we have donald back -- feedback and now there is a new entry from australia. a deck that learned to imitate human speech. if you listen closely, you will hear the phrase "you bloody fool !" [laughter] that did not sound like anything, right? [laughter] the recording was made in 1987 at a nature reserve when the dark was just four years old. dan: i want to see video. if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck --

[laughter] spencer: that was less impressive. larry: it was only four when the recording was made. maybe now that it is mature. dan: could it be speaking shakespeare? larry: who knows, dan. [laughter] [laughter] now a decades-old mystery. just what is grimace? there he is. apparently, ronald mcdonald's purple pal is a taste bud. the mcdonald's manager says he is an enormous taste bud and is meant to show that food tastes good. [laughter] no official word from mcdonald's, but the company's official twitter page now reads "grimace is a close personal friend of mine." in 2012, mcdonald's claimed he was the embodiment of a milkshake. so i don't know.

grimace is kind of like a rorschach test. [laughter] he is whatever you want him to be at any given point. spencer: i could see him as a taste bud. i had purple tastebuds sometimes, so, grimace when i drink my wine. larry: you could be grimace than. spencer: could be. kristen: aca virus. dan: that is not what they want. kristen: you said it is whatever i see, it is very abstract thatwe. dan: to many newscasts. spencer: the age of the virus. dan: aca melted barney -- i see a melted barney. [laughter] or maybe like bernie's littlechild. kristen: i don't think mcdonald's likes what we're saying right now. oh, well. larry: not when we're talking about their staff. i don't know. kristen: that will do it for

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we previously showed you the ford electric track hitting the market. no other -- now, makers are putting electric cars in the market. reporter: if earlier, colorado. chevrolet is quiet on details, but they released this teaser

showing four-wheel steering as an optional feature on the upcoming truck. sebring brand gmc will have a battery-powered model sooner, and an electric pickup by the end of the year. >> ford leads the full-size pickup truck sales race and they don't want to lose this emerging electric truck contest. next year that ford f-150 lightning arrives. those are brand names that you know, but here is one you might not know, and electric truck about to hit the streets. the rt1 is from a ford company has invested heavily in it to use as platforms for the future electric ford and lincoln vehicles. whenever pickup truck statistics are discussed, one figure that comes up a lot is the 6.2 v eight in the silverado put up a lot of torque. but nothing compared to what these electric pickups are

promising. about big torque and big towing capacity. ford is claiming the lightning will produce 775 pounds of torque, and be able to total up to 10,000 pounds. this company says it's electric pickup can to up to 11,000 pounds. travel especially when towing will make physical. smallse eltricow during the day and then recharge overnight when the vehicles will be sitting anyway. nobody is predicting that the conventional pickup truck will be going away anytime soon, but with the other world on a path to electrification, electric pickup trucks could someday be a common sight on the roads. . kristen: city officials in one texas town turned to lego to explain a complex budget proposal, and created a four-minute video breaking down the $522 million plan for next

year. they wanted to make it engaging and easy to understand. [laughter] apparently, it worked. the video racked up hundreds of thousands of views. now, if only politics were actually this easy. larry: that is cool. spencer, can you do the weather -- just get rid of all the fancy, just to legos. spencer: can't go wrong with legos. [laughter] kristen: you would be super popular. spencer: here is what is going on in our non-lego world of weather. few clouds building at the coastline. blows will be mild, low to mid 60's. tomorrow, speaking of comfortably warm, inland areas, especially in the east bay will be in the upper 90's to the low 100s. 102 in antioch. 100 in fairfield. down around the bay shoreline, look for highs tomorrow in the low to mid-80's. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast, minor

cooling on thursday, further cooling on friday going into the weekend. temperature hurts will be in the comfortable range, below average for this time of year. so we have some cleaner air quality to look forward to. kristen: alright. looking forward to that, spencer. this freighter jet is carrying precious cargo out of sfo. dhl helped fly the san francisco zoo's 4500 pound hippo to the cincinnati zoo. inside the container is darkerm better known as bruce -- tucker , better known as bruce. he is moving to cincinnati to be paired up with a potential mate, bebe. larry: where he will watch redz games, presumably, with bebe. back on tv and better than ever. >> the show has set

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groove, roaring into a 34th season in-studio, after wrapping up the 2021 season as the top syndicated talkshow in the country. >> when so many people were sort of trapped at home, stuck indoors, a lot of people were alone, a we tried to fill tha void may be, a little distraction. >> we look at that companionship is an important component. we hope that anybody who doesn't know us feels like they know us. reporter: the return to the studio kicked off with a special i love new york >> i love new york week is the most authentic week can possibly ever have here, because i have had a 32-plus year level affair with the city. reporter: later in the month, the hosts will partner with the guinness world record, trying to improve on records they already have. >> you know how many times you are in the book? >> many times. i don't like to brag.

we recently broke the most amount of people on point shoes. >> she says we. >> there were real ballet dancers. isabella boylston and tyler pack. we had ballet dancers in our midst. reporter: where the excitement of the live team was infectious onset, producers still long to return to full normal, with a live audience. >> we really missed the audience. we have a plan to bring them back, but with current conditions, we are putting it off until the right time. >> we try to be a departure from what may be an anxiety-inducing -- you know, do no harm. reporter: in new york city, joe torres, abc 7 news. larry: they have such great chemistry together. you can catch live with kelly and ryan weekdays at 9:00 a.m. here on abc 7. a reminder, you can get your live newscasts, breaking

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