coming up over the city on this monday, july 11th. yeah, let's get a check of the forecast good to see you sue as well and drew hot day ahead. yeah hot day the hottest of the week and we'll have modern air quality. we'll talk about that smoke moving into our atmosphere from the washburn fire near yosemite in one second right now. you're welcome temperatures in the 50s and in the 60s, so the light layer needed, but we'll take you to the tan can and you notice that sun is here. you also know it's a little bit. can our atmosphere from the fire it will remain elevated mean that snoke will not reach the surface, but you will notice that haze in our atmosphere 70 is an 80s already by lunchtime away from the coast and it's just a warm to hot day with coastal cloud cover. we'll have sunshine elsewhere 80s around the base shoreline mid and upper 90s and our hottest spots and then we'll talk much more about that air quality coming up in a few minutes list. all right drew. thank you developing news on the washburn fire burning out of control and yosemite national park. it's currently threatening a grove of iconic se. trees and the smoke has triggered an air quality advisory here in the bay area abc 7 news reporter on sir

hassan joins us live in the newsroom with the latest tehon, sir. good morning liz as you said the washington fire continues to burn out of control and yosemite national park. it's grown to over 2,000 acres with zero percent containment in the race is on to say the parks iconic sequoia trees. the washburn fire has been burning since last week or than 500 firefighters are on the front lines the virus burned so intense that sent debris hundreds of feet in the air fire officials are working to protect the mariposa grove, which is the largest area of the ancient sequoia trees. most of these trees are thousands of years old. in fact a sprinkler system was set up around the grisly giant. it's the park's second largest tree at 209 feet. it's estimated to be about 3,000 years old now another big concern air quality in and around the park, which is reached very unhealthy levels and air quality advisory has been issued for the bay area for we're hopeful that we don't have any type of issues like the orange sky or any type of serious smoke impacts to the

community most of the smoke that you will see will not be at the ground level. so it won't be affecting people. 700 people staying nearby at a campground. we've told you evacuate but some are choosing to wait it out now yosemite national park is over a thousand acres and some parts of the park are still open, but do require a reservation to visit in the newsroom ansar hassan abc7 news answer thank you firefighters are making progress on the electra fire in amador in calaveras counties. cal fire says all evacuation orders are now reduced to warnings there. the fire is now 85% contained but about 150 structures are still threatened that's down for more than 1200 last week. the fire has burned nearly 4,500 acres. the marin county fire department is adding personnel as fire season heats up our media partner the marine independent journal reports. the department is doubling its cruise. thanks to new funding from the state budget annual funding will increase from 8 million to 13 million dollars and that money will allow the department to

increase its hand crews to four teams of 14 to 16 firefighters until now the department would often have to wait for support crews to come in from the sacramento area when there was a fire. you can track all the wildfires burning right now in california by using our online interactive wildfire tracker. you'll find it at abc7news.com. meantime there's morning petaluma police are looking for the person accused of beating a man to death possibly with a baseball bat. it's petaluma's first homicide in five years. the victim was found on keller street early yesterday morning. not far from a popular entertainment area police believe the victim and his attacker may have come from a local bar or nightclub. they aren't sure what led to the assault the suspect may have jumped into a car to get away. sadness my condolences to the family and sadness for my community that we deal with. more more of kind of interpersonal violence police are now looking for surveillance

video from nearby businesses. they hope the video could provide clues about the attack and the suspect. livermore police have arrested a stabbing suspect after a short standoff. this happened before nine last night near murrieta boulevard police found two victims with stab wounds the suspect started to run away and ended up barricading himself in a backyard police say the suspect was fighting with one of the victims and the second tried to break up the fight. both victims had non-life threatening wounds happening today. the white house is marking the passage of the gun reform bill president biden signed two weeks ago. the celebration is belated after it was really over. shadowed by the supreme court ruling on roe versus wade the bipartisan safer communities act reinforces red flag laws makes gun trafficking a federal crime regulates gun sales and enhances background checks for those under 21 years old in attendance are going to be survivors of gun violence and families of mass shooting victims. twitter is hired a law firm to leave the company's battle with elon musk bloomberg news reports

the san francisco company hired a firm that specializes in business mergers. it's in resp. to must sec filing on friday to try and dump his 44 billion dollar bid to take over twitter must claims twitter has not given him enough information about the company. traders chairman responded by saying the company plans to seek legal action if that deal falls through northbound highway 101 through sausalito has reopened well ahead of schedule caltrans closed two lanes between the robin williams tunnel and rodeo avenue. this weekend crews were repairing a drainage system. well, the lanes were scheduled to remain closed until seven this morning, but cruise finished much earlier and everything is back open. okay car free fight the plan from supporters to get your vote to reopen to san francisco roads to car. french fry comeback the restaurant that is bringing back the world's most expensive fries this week. yeah, we're taking a live look from sutro tower limited fog this morning. you also notice a little bit of elevated smoke in our atmosphere

from the washburn fire burning near yosemite so modern air quality today. we do have an air quality advisory in effect because of that elevated smoke better air quality arrives tomorrow, but today not only that modern air quality. it's a warmed hot day. look at this

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ppli psseen over the corners is supplying us with a warm to hot afternoon today. it's also pushing a little bit that smoke from the fire near yosemite into our atmosphere and that's that's why we have that air quality. advisory later on today in the modern air quality. let's go hour by hour future tracker temperatures by lunchtime. we warm pretty quickly today away from the coast. you can see our warm spots into the 80s. if not low 90s already and we'll just continue to climb with our temperatures around the bay shoreline. we'll see widespread 80s. i think our hottest spots will go into the upper 90s later on today. so today is the hottest day we have all week. it's a warm to hot day. we'll go to 90 in san jose 78 oakland 92 in santa rosa 98 and antioch 82 in so it'll feel mild in the city at 72 with partly cloudy sky 66 the high for half moon bay. we will have a coastal flood advisory beginning at 8 pm tonight for our king tides. remember the king tides or those highest high tides. we have all year. so the high shortly before 10 pm

just be aware all areas shaded in green those low-lying areas. we could see some minor flooding around high tide. we'll talk about sharply cooler weather headed our way tomorrow with the 74 forecast in about eight minutes, but first, let's say good morning to sue and see how we're doing with traffic on this monday morning. hi drew. good morning, everyone. we'll take a look in san jose. this is 101 underneath the 880 over crossing and you can see traffic is moving at a pretty good clip here. so we don't see any delays as the sun is coming up in the day over to the san mateo bridge. you've got about a 20 minute drive from 880 over towards 101 and a couple of problems for you westbound on 92 near claw water. apparently a truck has lost its load in one of the lanes like one of those pod containers. so heads up there and then a stall on the high-rise a big rig stall blocking one lane of traffic there. we have a sigalert now issued for the daily city area. it's actually coming out of pacifica. it's very foggy there. we've got a turn sideways and lanes northbound one approaching

highway 280. they have temporarily shut down all lanes and issued a sigalert. here you are being diverted off at ceremony to get from highway 1 over towards 280. well check on both of these when we come back in just a few. right sue thanks new details about the suspect and the assassination of the former japanese prime minister. what police are saying about how he prepared for the attack evacuation efforts? escalate the bay area nonprofit that's helping civilians. get out of ukraine, and we have a live look outside right now as we head to break sun starting to creep up here at moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. invoripir jeion. it'snel,nce a day, ecve witut picast. akrinv w clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin.

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and protect tribal sovereignty and help californians that are hurting the most. the war in ukraine another deadly attack in ukrainian civilians left at least 15 people dead russian missiles hit an apartment building yesterday, and there's a bay area based nonprofit set out to make an impact. it's called nova ukraine its mission right now is to find the evacuation. to fund the evacuations of as many people as possible. be funded mostly gasoline pay for drivers and repair in some cases. we funded replacement vehicles after vehicles were destroyed. they paid for a mobile fuel tank to allow cheaper and faster refuels these efforts remove

civilians before the fighting begins in their areas the drivers often venture out to the front lines of russian occupied territories all to get more ukrainians to safety. if you want to help people in ukraine, we have put together a full list of verified groups and nonprofits that's on our website abc7news.com/take action this morning authorities in japan are releasing more details about the assassination of former japanese prime minister shinzo abe abc news reporter bob woodruff has an update from tokyo authorities in japan. say the suspect charged in the stunning assassination of former prime minister shinzu abe planned the attack for months. i'll be gunned down in broad. at a campaign event police say the suspected shooter 41 year old satsuya yamagami seen here loitering before allegedly shooting abbey from behind took a train to the event and officials are now investigating whether he attended his speech by the 67 year old abby the day before the attack sources telling japanese media the

suspect test fired the homemade gun in preparation for the murder investigators say that gun is about 15 inches long capable of shooting six projectiles at a time. and was made from two metal pipes taped together similar to a shotgun officials say they seized several more homemade guns from the suspects apartment. police. say the suspected shooter confessed telling investigators. he killed abbey because he believed rumors about the former prime minister's association with a religious group. he blamed for his mother's financial ruin now police acknowledge problems with obvious security, so they're launching a task force to investigate. also the candidate abbe was campaigning for when he was not one today's election abba is set to laid to rest on tuesday. bob would have abc news. tokyo you're a secretary of state. anthony blinken is heading back to the us after a visit to tokyo. he took a detour from his trip to asia to pay his respects to shinzo abe and meet with japanese officials. it's not clear if anyone from

this administration or previous white house administrations will be in japan for ave's funeral president biden ordered flags at the white house flown at half staff in ave's honor the consulate general of japan and san francisco is setting up a book of condolences. it is open to the public to sign it will be available today. and tomorrow from 10 am to 4 pm the consulate is on battery street. the address is on your screen. no appointment is needed visitors are asked to wear a mask happening today the battle over car free jfk drive in the great highway in san francisco is back a group is trying to reopen both roads and we'll submit signatures to put the issue on the november ballot the measure would restore car access on weekdays and keep the roads closed to traffic on weekends and holidays for half of the year. opponents of the closure say it cause traffic trouble and parking issues and residential streets and reduce public access to parks, especially for people who may not be able to walk long distances supporters of car free jfk and the great highway say

the closure is provide more space for people to enjoy the outdoors. is world record serendipity 3 is offering in signature. which are dubbed crème de la creme humphreets. the fries are $200 a plate. they're sprinkled with 23 carat edible gold dust and seasoned with truffle salt and truffle oil. the dish is served on a crystal plate and they also come with a cheese dip that's infused with truffle mushrooms, drew take it away. set up for the biggest game of our generation. there we go adding truffles everything. but what type of fry is your favorite fry like a cut of a fry like a show string a wedge a steak fry? i love a sweet potato a good well see sweet potato fry. yes. yes. that's your favorite type of fry. i mean, i'm just saying i really like a sweet potato fry but i also like a mcdonald's fry right?

that was the correct answer list. i'm not a sweet potato fry. i like a diner friday. does that make sense if i say that absolutely exactly what you're talking? yeah. it's kind of in between the mcdonald's, you know fairly skinny fry. and a baby, right? that's what that fry. would yeah. okay, good prize the other night it was you know what it's fresh. we just becomes of the plate at harvey's. yeah. and you just you know, it hasn't been sitting. not under that red lamp no lamp no lamp. fresh cut fries it went from that fryer to that plate to you in a matter of probably like 60 seconds. best amen. mmm. don't give me a cold fry. don't try it. don't try it. i'm not the one you can't also you can't reheat fries. mmm. that's good people. he trying that. the diet like a five minute window. don't order fry. don't first of all get out of your like wherever and walk to

whatever you're doing. that's the first thing but doordash fries don't do it. actually. that's right. it's not gonna it doesn't live listen in the early part of the pandemic. you got it. that was the option. stored out your fries. did i doordash mcdonald's to my house several times? and how are those fries? how are they dead? okay. let's see at that time. your standards were lower. listen, there's a wild time. i was april 2020 bible mode. i remember i was there. we all live through it barely. all right, let's say what's happening outside. we have our south beach camera this morning. it is hazy out there. we're talking about modern air quality part of the reason why the washburn fire we've been talking about it all morning long. it's burning near yosemite right now. we're getting a little bit of that smoke in our atmosphere. it will remain elevated. meaning you won't feel it and you're the surface so it's modern air quality today. it's a warm to hot afternoon. not only is it cooler tomorrow and into wednesday better air quality will arrive here tomorrow as a stronger.

shore flow get that smoke out of here. so 50s and 60s waking up this morning. it's a warm to hot day today highs in our microclimate starting in the south. they will go to 95 and morgan hill 88 in cupertino 90 in san jose. so snd warm in the south bay 88 in redwood city today. we'll go to about 82 in palo alto 83 in mountain view 78 that high in millbury downtown today. we'll hit 72 partly cloudy sky 68 for daily city the north bay. it is a warmed hot day. we'll go to 92 in, calistoga. in san rafael 78 in sausalito 98 cloverdale 92 in vallejo the east bay were warm or sunny 78 to hide oakland 85 in fremont. we'll go to 82 in hercules. and then inland it's a hot day a lot of sunshine 98 and antioch 99 brentwood 93 in san ramon. we'll go to 93 and walnut creek overnight tonight. our marine layer is a bit more expansive. we'll see more fog developing and temperatures generally in the 50. so here's the accurate with the 74 forecast planet 7 days for you. it's warm to hot day. in fact today is the hottest day all week.

sharp cooldown tomorrow better air quality as well some fluctuations in our temperatures, but usually head to the weekend temperatures pretty typical for this time of year with morning fog to afternoon, sunshine. cool, sounds good drew. thank you. and now let's turn to ginger zee live with us. and what's coming up on gma? hirng to you. z.ggie. o crson be talking about that heat and we will have the latest on the wildfire emergency threatening yosemite national park will car is there for us as the firefighters are helping to save the giants sequoias. i'm gonna also track record heat from the mountain west there to texas where they are on track in many cities to have their hottest summer on record. it's been scorcher also this morning the latest latest on steve bannon's about face. former president trump's close ally says that he's willing to testify before the january 6 committee. and retail giants are promising big summer savings this week. so we're going to tell you how you can make sure that you're getting a deal and using the

bargains to hedge against inflation. also where the best paying jobs are right now and how you can negotiate the best deal for yourself if you get one of those jobs. and guys there was a huge crowd outside today when i got up my car they were highly disappointed because i am not txt. but that is who is on our program. i learned how to do this k-pop sign and it is like this. oh tea. oh x t. oh, what's up? okay. oh that's on it. i'm not doing that correctly known that when i got out of the car. it could have been a better receive, you know, yeah. t a lot more about what these children are listening to because friday i was educated about a band. i didn't know now i'm hearing about txt. so silver you get your sandwich cross the line exactly just throw up the korean heart and like call it good for the day, but then i want you to dive in after this. both of you are right. all right deep dive.

okay spotify is your friend. does list have it liz? what are you what is that? okay what we have practice, that's my you know, we know that ginger educating the children this morning and disappointing people as she comes out of her car. we love it. we'll see you at seven here.

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and protect tribal sovereignty moving forward finding solutions. this is abc 7 news. now at 6:30 preparing to testify steve bannon now saying that he will cooperate with the investigation into the january 6th insurrection the debate over abortion now the focus of a traffic ticket a woman's argument why she should not have to pay it and we take a live look outside at 6:31 and air quality advisory now in effect for the bay area the fire that smoky skies to our region. oh, you can see the haze there. yeah. good morning everybody. yeah, the haze is there in the atmosphere. but drew is telling us that it's not going to be as bad on the ground. we'll get to that in just a second. but sue what's going on in the roads. well, we've got a commuter a commuter alert. excuse me. this is a bart issue with all

trains leaving san francisco now single tracking before time completely shut down. they are once again single tracking through the city 16th. mission they had a medical emergency there and they are getting assistance from muni. so expect major delays, which is over 20 minute delays throughout the system elsewhere we go to the san mateo bridge where we also have a sigalert. this one is a big rig. it's in the westbound direction. the two right lanes are blocked westbound. the two left lanes are blocked eastbound. so expect to delays on the san mateo bridge for some time. you may want to consider the dumbarton bridge. hi sue. we're taking a look at temperatures right now. we're in the in the 60s so it is a mild start out there. and again, you'll notice some hazen or atmosphere because of that modern air quality smoke coming from the washburn fire near yosemite inner atmosphere. so that's how you go. here's a live look at our rooftop camera at kgo not only modern air quality. we are in store for a warm to hot day today is the warmest day. we have all weekend for good

reason well into the 80s and 90s away from the coast later on today. we' air quality. we'll find fresh air moving in and also close to look at these afternoon highs coming up about nine. and drew thank you the out-of-control fire burning inside yosemite national park could start affecting a lot of us today because the air quality is awful near the park and some of that is blowing our way abc 7 news reporter unser hussain is in the newsroom with a new threat to some of the world's oldest trees answer. yeah. good morning reggie the washburn fire continues to burn in yosemite national park. it's grown to over 2,000 acres with zero percent containment at one big concern is air quality which could to impact the bay area. the fire has been burning since last week more than 500 firefighters were on the front line the fires burned so intense that it's sent to be hundred of hundreds of feet in the air a layer of toxic smoke now hangs over yosemite air quality in and around the park has reached unhealthy levels wildfire smoke is starting to spread north

along the sierra towards the tahoe base and temperatures are expected to rise and reach the lower 90s in the coming days now one good thing that's helped firefighters is that the wind has been pretty calm? national weather service has a plume of smoke is headed north and could drift into the bay area and air quality advisory has been issued for the bay area today. we're hopeful that we don't have any type of issues like the orange sky or any type of serious smoke impacts to the community most of the smoke that you will see will not be at the ground level. so it won't be affecting people. fire are working to protect the mariposa grove, which is the largest area of the ancient sequoia trees. some of the trees are thousands of years old because of the fire remains a known however parts of the park are still open, but they do require reservation to visit in the newsroom on sarasin abc 7 news answer. thank you. you can see all the wildfires in california by using our online interactive wildfire tracker. you'll find it at abc 7 news.com teens in the east bay are making their voices heard in the fight for abortion rights members of

the social justice organization youth activists for alameda held a march to city hall to protest the recent supreme court decision to overturn rovers his weight their calling for alameda to become a sanctuary city for those from other states in need of an abortion or any other reproductive medical services. just because we live in california does not mean we can't be deaf to this issue and we can't continue to fight for this issue. it means that we need to work together. we need to collaborate and we need to support our people and these states. i don't want to support them. the organization is also calling on the city of alameda to build a reproductive health facility so that those in need of services don't have to drive to neighboring cities to get help. president biden has a message for those protesting the supreme court's decision on roe v wade. yes, keep protesting because keep making your point. it's critically important. the president offering that encouragement during a bike ride near his home in delaware his administration continues to face criticism for not acting quickly

enough to offer legal solutions to protect access to abortion. he says he has asked his administration to consider whether he has authority to declare an abortion-related public health emergency and to address specific issues like whether anyone should be allowed to cross state state lines to get an abortion. visit room court's decision to reverse roe versus wade has become the center of a dispute over a traffic ticket in texas a pregnant woman plans to fight a ticket for driving in an hov lane. she argues her unborn child now counts as a second passenger given texas's abortion ban. the officer okay. well you're in an hov lane and i said yes, and he said great. where's your is there somebody else in the car and looking around i said well, yes there is and he said well, where as he's peeking in the in the car and i pointed in my stomach. i look right here and he said uh, well, it's two bodies outside of the body.

that doesn't count. brandy is scheduled to be in court next week. she says an officer told her it's likely the ticket will be dropped because even though texas is penal code recognizes a fetus as a person, texas transportation code does not if it isn't she will have to pay $215 steve bannon now says that he will cooperate with the congressional committee investigating the deadly january 6th insurrection. this comes after he previously refused to speak to the committee for months and face possible jail time for ignoring a subpoena. here's abc news reporter. brian this morning steve bannon reversing course telling the january 6th committee. he's willing to testify ben and the committee initially locked in a legal battle for months the conservative fire brand and former trump white house strategist facing criminal contempt charges after refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. he and former president donald trump claiming executive privilege, even though benon left his white house job in 2017, but in this new letter

obtained by abc news trump how clearing ban into appear before the committee saying quote i watched how unfairly you and others have been treated. i expect that we will be hearing from him and there are many questions that we have for him. the committee maintaining there's evidence been in new about the capital attack in advance a day before the riot saying this on his podcast all hell is going to break loose tomorrow bannon's decision to testify coming days after the committee heard from former trump white house counsel pat sip. once the top white house lawyer cipollone repeatedly mentioned by cassidy hutchinson a former aide to trump's chief of staff mr. ciploni said something to the effect of please make sure we don't go up to the capital, you know recorded interview sipolodi facing questions friday for eight hours. you'll see over the next couple hearings a little of what he said, but at no point was there any contradiction of what anybody said, you know letter to the january?

committee bannon's attorney says his client wants to testify live and in public but one committee member says that might not be the case because of the number of questions committee investigators have for bannon jacob bryan abc news, washington. abc news will provide live coverage of the january 6 hearings tomorrow and thursday. tomorrow's hearing is scheduled to start around 10 am. you can watch it live right here on abc 7 abc 7 news.com or wherever you stream the senate is set to return from its recess today, but it's gonna be without one high profile politician in person senate majority leader chuck schumer announcers spokesperson that he's tested positive for covid. he's experiencing mild symptoms. symptoms. he is vaccinated and double he's going to quarantine and work remotely this week following the cdc's guidelines our rally today in support of a new measure to invest in underserved students at san francisco city college if approved it would provide 45 million dollars for programs thatiten lguag

arrs formerly incarcerated students and low-income students of color supporters have already gathered double the 9,000 signatures. you would need to get the measure on november's ballot leaders of the effort will speak at city hall on noon joined by members of the college and cracking down on robocalls the government now stepping in to stop these unwanted calls and you're looking live at the big board at the new york stock estate exchange down this morning. we'll have another update on the markets and how they're doing coming up next working out like a dog meet the man who says he got ripped by running on all fours, and don't forget you can watch us for a whole extra hour now abc 7 is at 7:00 is live weekday from seven to eight am on the abc 7 bay area streaming app. you can download it. your phone tablet roku apple tv amazon fire or android tv? 6:40 am we're taking a look at the tam cam got a little bit of fog close to the coast, but that sun is up here and we're expecting a sunny and a warm to hot day. you also look on the horizon

right here. you see a little bit of haze. that is the elevated smoke. we're tracking coming from the washburn fire near yosemite that is moving into our atmosphere creating that moderate air quality today again that smoke will remain elevated. it will not reach the surface and that's why our quality stays in the moderate category and not poor or unhealthy today better air quality tomorrow as an onshore breeze really kicks in high pressure over the four corners is supplying us with a warm to hot afternoon today. so future tracker temperatures 80s and 90s away from the coast already by lunchtime and will warm even more than that. so 94 the high in concord today 90 in san jose. we're going to 78 oakland 72 in the city 92 in santa rosa 82 in palo alto 92 in vallejo. we do have a coastal flood advisory being at 8 pm tonight for the king tides our highest high tides all season high tide shortly before 10 pm. so areas in green low-lying areas. we may see a little bit of minor coastal flooding be aware of that. we'll talk about sharply cooler weather coming our way tomorrow

at the seven day and about 10 minutes, but first, let's say good morning to sue and see how we're doing with traffic this morning. we have a commuter alert once again for bart, although it is in the recovery phase. we had a medical emergency at 16th and mission and for a time all trains were stopped going through there. they since reopened and now recovering with a major delay in the san francisco lines, so heads up there metering lights have been turned on filling in at the bay bridge toll plaza backing up past the overcrossings. you've got a good solid 10 minute delay to get past the metering lights and a sig alert on the san mateo bridge big rig accident on the high-rise section. we've got the two right lanes westbound two left lanes eastbound blocked and you may want to try the dumbarton bridge as you can see. it is bumper to bumper across the span. or towards san mateo and another sig alert this one in south city in daly city. i should say. this is a highway one approaching highway 280. we have a car still blocking. all lanes traffic is being diverted off on the southbound

280 from northbound highway 1 heads up there pretty big delays as well. we'll be back with more news traffic and weather a

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investigation into the police response to the massacre at rob elementary and uvalde. texas is going to take a new step forward today. it comes as the community demands transparency for more than a month families have demanded to know why it took police over an hour to take down

the shooter. they waited outside the classroom while 19 children and two teachers were killed when i no one can give me i want my daughter back that's getting to change the gun laws. more background checks mental checks, please change our love so no more babies could be taken from us. we want answers. we seek justice and we demand change. there is a 77 minute video from the school hallways that the community hopes could bring insights of the officer's response that day so far only still images have been released. it's up to the district attorney whether or not to release it to the public. a scary moments on a airlines flight from tampa to spirit says one of the breaks in the landing gear overheated causing a fire. you can see the flames and the black smoke just beneath the plane. it was towed to the gate and it's undergoing maintenance for repairs. no one was hurt. not your morning money report

and gas prices. it's good news. average for a regular gallon of gas in california has gone down 16 cents in just the past week according to triple-a a gallon of gas in san francisco will cost you 614 in oakland 612 in san jose 606 the average from a year ago in the bay area was around $4.30. so okay when you put it that way, it's still depressing. the cost of stamps and other services the post office going up today a forever sample costs 60 cents up two cents everything from postcards to certified mail to money orders will also cost you more the postal service says the rate hike amounts to about a 6.5% increase across the board and if you're old like me, you can remember when stamps were about half that price. taking a live look of the new york stock exchange as training gets underway this morning. you can see that we're down about a hundred and sixty three points. all right. are you tired of all those robo calls asking about your auto warranty or something else? well the government plans to

crack down and make spam calling illegal in the us since 2018 americans have received more than eight billion unwanted calls. the fcc has opened an investigation implants to take legal action against 22 spam calling companies the agency recommended for some large phone networks to order a cease and desist. personal trainer in indiana is sharing how he became quote crazy ripped. he says it's thanks to running on all fours like a dog every day for almost an entire year. yeah abc news reporter. will gantz has the story. nathaniel nolan has spent the last 322 days doing this the internet unleashing a ton of running like a dog headlines, but the carmel indiana personal trainer says not so fast. there's no inspiration coming from any sort of animals. i'm not trying to imitate anything in fact, the all fours practice was born about a year ago when nathaniel's calisthenics practices jujitsu and break dancing started to wear on him.

it was a suffering from of pain and like my wrists and hands and shoulders and stuff. so like 30 or 45 minutes a day, how has your body changed since starting the challenge? well, i mean in obvious ways the kinds of things that i've updated on my my page abs and whatever all of these are the areas that i want people don't see it's just kind of harder to to notice are the mobility gains that i've had how much again how much better my body feels nathaniel doing is all for his practice at the gym even under the gateway arch in st. louis. are there areas where you're like, yeah, i i'm not gonna do it here. yeah, i mean obviously like i'm not gonna do something that's like gross or like well, i mean i have i have i've definitely i found out that like just putting your bare hands on the sidewalk you're taking some risks there do people ever stop you and say

like what's happening right here pretty much never a lot of people kind of underestimate how little people care about what's going on around them. some experts say you can burn 100 calories for every 10 minutes of doing a bear crawl. so it's no wonder nathaniel it says as he is, he also says he's thrilled when he sees others embark on their own all four challenge. alright, will gantz news, new york. huh? immediately no so just i absolutely that again because after our conversation before and i just wanted to know like is this a thing how long has this been a thing? and i guess it is a thing. there's like youtube videos about it is like a, you know a cult thing and so some tips it says remember to keep your back straight and level with the ground and beyond that. it's about finding your stride length figuring out your stepping style and practice. not this i can barely do a burpee. you think i'm gonna be like

running around like a dog like a dog. this is not for tall people either. no the stride like when they talk about the stride length. great candidate for our segment. absolutely, not right. yes, and i'm sorry new seconds for that. yeah, overlap. that's the tough part is wondering which category if it's into the most. yeah, i think absolutely not i think so too because someone probably did ask for this. he did he did right we did not. let's go outside. good morning, san jose. i'll take you to the south bay right now a live picture. we do have an air quality advisory modern air quality today because we'll see some elevated smoke from the washburn fire burning near yosemite moving to our atmosphere better air quality will move in here tomorrow. it's really just a one day advisory. so limited morning fog just banked up right along our coastline. it is a warm to hot day today cooler air quickly moves in here tomorrow and that onshore flow will also bring us better air quality on tuesday right now.

wake up the temperatures in the 50s and 60s. so some cities were off to a mild start highs today in our microcom is starting on the south bay 95 and morgan hill. it's a hot one in the south bay 90 in san jose. we'll go to 88 in cupertino along the peninsula. it's warm if not hot sunshine 88 redwood city 83 mountain view 82 the high in san mateo downtown today. we'll hit 72 68 the high for daily city into the north bay 78 in sausalito 91 though in san rafael. you the high in santa rosa 91 in sonoma and 92 in vallejo the east bay today a lot of sunshine hazy conditions warm 80 and san leandro 78 oakland 85 in fremont and inland. it's a hot afternoon 95 in antioch. go to 93 in walnut creek 95 in livermore overnight tonight. we'll find coastal cloud cover some patchy fog around the bay shoreline some coastal drizzle as well numbers generally falling into the 50s. there's the accurate with the 74 cast today is the hottest day we have all week is a sharp cooldown. earth better air quality and then through the end of the week in the upcoming weekend.

just some minor fluctuations and minor ebbs and flows and our temperatures, but saturday and sunday morning fog afternoon sunshine and temperatures are pretty typical for this time of the year. right true. thanks hundreds of people enjoyed another day of sunday streets in san francisco's mission district. the monthly event allows neighbors and visitors to walk by bike or scoot down more than a mile of carfree streets activities include hula hooping tightrope walking there some plate spitting was going on a lot more. there was also a covid vaccination site where people could walk up and get a shot. i'm traveling to see my family and we have family members that are autoimmune compromised and we just want to be as safe as possible. the event also included free bike rentals and a rock climbing wall provided by the san francisco recreation and parks department the next edition of sunday streets is set for august 21st in soma on folsom street. okay, you got to see this a rare marine moment was caught on video. it's remarkable a pot of bottle-nosed dolphins was seen bowriding a blue whale and dana point the video is from captain

dave's whale watching tour agency dolphins often ride, the pressure wave created in front of boats, and it appears that they're just doing the same thing here, but instead with the help of a whale the agency wrote that dolphins and whales do not live in the same social circles and that they're rarely seen together, which makes this an especially memorable moment. so cool to see a blue whale truly a life's goal. and apparently it happens a little more often here than expected because we had an expert on abc 7 and 7 which is right after the show talking to us about the farallon islands and how they time see blue whales out there in addition to orcas have you been? whale watch no drew has i have been whale watching. i did it in alaska though. i haven't done it here. so i would love to do it here meet you i just am always a little nervous sickness thing but oh, yeah should be fine. you pop a dramamine. you bring some little patch you bring some ginger ale we're good to go liz, okay. i need to know today as we have

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just joining us here are the seven things to know this morning. number one new video of the washburn fire burning in yosemite national park. the fire is 2,000 acres and 0% contained smoke from the fire is blowing into the bay area causing an air quality advisory for today. and number two we will have that

moderate air quality noticeable of haze in our atmosphere because of that spoke today is also the hottest day we have all week a lot of sunshine are writing this morning 70s and 80s away from the coast by at lunch time into the afternoon a lot of 80s and low 90s around the base shoreline made an upper 90s and our hottest spots inland number three petaluma police are investigating the city's first homicide in five years authorities say the victim was assaulted yesterday morning, possibly with the baseball bat. no one's been arrested number four former white house chief strategist. steve bannon now says he is willing to testify before the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection the next hearing set for tomorrow. abc news will have special coverage starting around 10. am number five mourners are paying respect to former japanese leader shinzo abe. he was assassinated over the weekend. private wake and funeral services will be held today and tomorrow. and we're checking on the sigalert. this is the san mateo bridge. it's not a frozen picture. it's just stopped.

we have a sigalert the westbound direction to right lines blocked and in the eastbound direction to left lanes blocked recommending the dumbarton bridge for the next little while. we'll check back in about 30 minutes and number seven. you can get a free small slurry today. all you have to do is download the 7-eleven app and scan it when you check out you'll also get a free slurpee day cup and there's a limited time flavor called what the fanta cut the fan set. i that's i'm here for the comedy of that. i'm looking at all the flavors they have what? okay, what flavors i mean so far. it will only says the ones guaranteed our coke and cherry guaranteed. i mean ready minus 30 seconds so far. it's in the machine, but the red light is usually on saying that it's not ready. that's been my experience my entire life. i would say like a one out of three chance that the coke machine is working today could be the day they could be your day. today is the day buy a lottery ticket. man a coke slurpee and some

haribogummy bears that that is pretty it's always 7 am. yeah bigger rush. have a good day. te good morning, america. t we begin a new week together firefighters racing to protect a major national park. wildfire emergency. a massive 2,000-acre blaze raging near yosemite national park, doubling in size in just 24 hours and 0% contained. hundreds of firefighters on the front lines. the flames creating a firenado shooting debris hundreds of feet into the air, nearly hitting a plane. ginger is tracking it all including at least eight states on alert for extreme heat. steve bannon's about-face after being held in contempt of congress for defying a subpoena. now why former president trump's

close ally says he's willing to