wildfire, the oak fire continues to grow, dozens of structures destroyed, the challenging conditions that firefighters are facing. jobina: clinic closed for those hoping to get a monkeypox vaccine. he will not be able to go to one bay area hospital today. reggie: dreaming of getting rich, the mega millions jackpot $810 million. >> thank goodness because my friend was like did you get your ticket, i did not, so drew: -- kumasi: good morning, tuesday, july 26. we are glad that you are back. reggie: we will get a check the weather withdrew, are we going to be rich in a don't know, or the same? drew: we are living. good morning.

we are tracking an isolated shower that developed in eastern contra costa county. over the past two hours near brentwood discovery bay, it has a history of lightning. we are watching this line of showers moved to the north and west over the next couple of hours. we will timeout the single-line and you can see it is moving to the north and west near napa around 7:00 a.m.. we will watch it closely because it has a history of lightning to see what happens. it is encountering cooler weather as it moves into the bay area and that is not conducive for lightning strikes. temperatures generally in the 50's and 60's. here is a live look at the exploratorium camera, hazy sunshine and smoke aloft in the north and east bay, and it is a cooler afternoon later on. we will look at live doppler and a close up at the highs in about eight minutes.

reggie: the oak fire that is continuing to burn in mariposa county, firefighters hoping to make progress after slowing the expansion yesterday. it is 16% contained, the largest wildfire this year in california, more than 17,000 acres have burned west of yosemite national park. 55 structures have been confirmed destroyed including several homes we learned that no one has been injured. thousands of homes are still threatened and evacuation orders are in effect. the extreme drought is one of the main reasons that the oak fire took off so quickly. these conditions are challenging firefighters. it is hot and the fire is burning in steep and rugged terrain. j.r. down spoke with a fire victim. j.r.: the oak flower -- the oak fire scorched thousands of acres. some people are getting official word that their home was lost.

>> the apartment just called me today to verify that the house had burned down. j.r.: chris, who was renting a home on the outskirts of mariposa was biking with friends friday, looked back and saw this. >> there was a fire out of -- in the vicinity of where he we were and it was building quickly with billowing black smoke and we took off right away. i had never seen any fire like that. j.r.: an avid outdoorsman and journalist were able to get some of his -- some of his items and his dog from his home with the thought that he would come back for more but that never happened as the fire strengthened. authorities evacuated the neighborhood and he received troubling news for the second time in a week. >> this was not the saddest thing that i got this week. so i came down with an autoimmune disorder this week so i was crying a lot about that and then my house burned. it was kind of a lot. j.r.: his home and landlord's

home are two of 55 structures that have been destroyed. cara franklin took these pictures on the way to her father-in-law's home. she said that smoking -- has been a -- smoke and ash has been a major issue. >> i would go out to the car and there was soot everywhere, just raining down. j.r.: as bad as everyone looks, others are hopeful. >> i am sad but i have my dog and that makes me happy. j.r.: he is suffering from alopecia where you lose your hair, the same thing that jada pinkett smith has but he is optimistic, he is in marin county and plans to make his way to fresno and then hopefully we'll get back to mariposa. j.r. stone, abc7news. reggie: drifting smoke has prompted officials to extend an air quality advisory through

tomorrow. we have an interactive tracker to keep tabs on the air quality where you are and you can find that at abc7news.com. kumasi: investigators are looking for the cause of this two alarm fire in alameda on west ranger avenue. alameda fire avenue -- alameda fire crews called the oakland department to help with flames. part of the vacant warehouse's roof collapsed but there is no damage to nearby strunk structures. neighbors say that they saw the fire burning in the garage, the cause is unknown. the person who died has not been identified. reggie: now to a key decision regarding your health. the federal government put a decision about second covid-19 booster shots are people under 50 on hold, for now. according to a senior administration official the government is focused on getting a vaccine that is more effective against omicron and subvariants that they would roll out and then more boosters.

doctors say this is a timing game. >> it is totally dependent on when the next vaccine is ready. if it will not be ready until late october push the second vaccine now. if it is going to be ready mid september, that is only six weeks from now and we can wait on that. reggie: officials hope to have an omicron targeted vaccine by mid-september. for now second boosters are available for those over 50 or younger people at higher risk. there is new help for some california children who lost parents to covid. according to the examiner the buy interest-bearing savings bonds. nce kids who a parent to covid and some in foster care would qualify. the exact amount that each kid would get has not been decided that it could be 400 to 8000 dollars, enough for 16,000 children. the money is coming from the record-breaking -- breaking surplus.odhe

nkpo vaccine clinic at zuckerberg san francisco general hospital will be closed until they get more of the vaccine. the department of public health says it has not been told by the federal government what the vaccine allotment will be this week. the agency has requested 35,000 doses but so far it is only gotten 7800. currently there is only one lab that makes the vaccine. however it agreed to license it to other manufacturers. yesterday the hospital clinic gave out 500 doses. reggie: the white house is expected to announce a monkeypox coordinator to manage the federal government's response has more cases of marriage. the move comes days after the world health organization declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. so far there have been 20 900 confirmed cases in the u.s.. kumasi: will tonight be the night we finally have a winner. mega millions jackpot has grown to $810 million.

the tickets are two dollars each that this is the third-highest cash winnings. ryan curry is live in walnut creek with more on this. good morning. ryan: good morning. here we are again, another opportunity to win very large sums of money. here it is, $810 million for the mega millions. you mentioned one over seen from the competition. i said on friday if nobody won the jackpot it would go up and sure enough that is what has happened. it still remains the third-highest, not as high as what we saw in the past with a whopping 1.5 billion back in 2018. this one close, this is still a very large sum of money. if you do win, you can choose to have them pay out the prize over the course of 30 years with one payment annually or choose to have the cash option and you get

all the money right away. most people end up doing that. after taxes that is $470 million. that is a lot of money. you can feel the anticipation building around this one. as the prize gets higher more people will be playing. >> the lady said that the pot was already 800 million so i decided to grab a pick ti -- a quick tic so i decided to grab one today. ryan: abc 7 catching up with that guy in southern california, luckiest guy in englewood, you would be the luckiest guy in the world if you win that thing. same for anyone in the bay area. he wld be the luckiespe earth id in thefferent locations across the bay area. it is possible. we know the are -- the odds are immense but we know that someone has to win.

we do not new -- and over that person will be on where you are, but maybe it is me? we are live, abc7news. kumasi: i think you should take over the ticket process as you are right there. for everybody. ryan: just contribute to the rest of the team is that what we are doing? kumasi: we will send you the cash, but all of this when you win stuff, i do not like it. when we win. ryan: yes. i will split the cash evenly, do not worry. i will make sure it is taken care of and that steve is taking care of first because he is a guy who is helping me out first, and then i will make sure the rest of you guys. maybe we could all just leave and take a tropical vacation and one just kind of see what happens, i do not know, we will see. kumasi: we will be in touch.

drew: it is all fun and games until your ticket has the numbers. who are you? i do not know who you are? i asked him last friday to biased tickets and i did not receive a ticket. i am just saying. kumasi: it is a pattern. drew: i would not hold your breath. it is a dog eat dog world, is that what it is? the smoke from the oak fire remains aloft, so you will find it prominently near middletown and parts of santa rosa and the inland east bay to discovery bay. hazy sunshine and that will be the theme to the next couple of days with elevated smoke. it might shift a little bit further south and we will keep our eyes on that. all in all, the air quality remains god. the onshore flow is preventing the smoke from reaching the surface so we can breathe easy. we are watching a line of showers following highway four. it has

a wchg that clo enters the nor. here is future weather showing you the line of showers. it falls apart toward sunrise, but nonetheless it has a history of lightning and that is where we are watching it. later on it is about morning fog giving way to afternoon sunshine and it stays cloudy over parts of the city and east bay. otherwise hazy some -- sunshine and temperatures in her 80's. we will hit 100 ukiah. 81 san jose. 66 the high in san francisco. that is the weather, and let us get you to traffic. jobina: hello, we will start with a live look at the golden gate bridge, and everything is light. that is good news for your commute. we have a wind advisory through the ultimate pass and through the bridge this morning if you are traveling along there. that is 80's and -- this is 80

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kumasi: 5:15 and there is new information in the investigation of the january 6 insurrection, the house committee shedding light on president trump's mind the day after the attack. jobina: this new video and a document shows what the committee design -- says is his reluctance to condemn his supporters. the document is the original draft of his prerecorded message on january 7. lines that would have directed

the department of justice to prosecute rioters appear crossed out. video includes newly released testimony from the former president's daughter and son-in-law and senior advisor, jared kushner discussing the context of the comments. >> was the implication that the president was reluctant to give that speech? >> yes. jobina: a separate investigation continues, mark short, the former chief of staff confirms that he appeared under subpoena last week before a federal grand jury. he is now the highest trump white house official known to have testified in the investigation along with mike pence's former chief counsel all as merrick garland faces pressure to bring criminal charges against trump and his allies. kumasi: thank you. in the east bay we are expecting to get an update on the killing of an uber driver in oakland. surveillance video captured the

morning just a moment that he was shot to death on july 17. he was waiting outside of his car on 13 avenue. there is already a reward of more than $12,000 for any information that leads to an arrest. oakland's police chief and other community leaders will be at the event at pacific renaissance plaza in chinatown starting at 10:30. reggie: a group of high school students is at home after being stranded in central europe. they got a rousing welcome before returning to school. the orchestra had been on tour for two weeks, and on they got stuck in prague for four days when their flight home was canceled by lufthansa. at one point they were told that the airline month -- might not get them back before september. >> we had no idea when we were leaving, in retrospect four days was great but we had no idf it was one or 100 days. reggie: though students were relieved that they were back

home and they say they have no hard feelings. >> i do not think i can allow this event to take away from the overall experience, because it was so amazing. reggie: in order to do that that students took a seven hour bus ride to frankfurt, germany and got a charter flight to san francisco. a second group return saturday night. kumasi: klondike's choco taco has been discontinued from its range of products. klondike says it is putting it into the -- an end to the chocolate shaped ice cream because of the high demand of the other products. it was first introduced four decades ago on ice cream trucks. the last remaining inventory is still in some stores. the reddit cofounder tweeted that klondike's -- tweeted to klondike's parent company that he would like to buy the rights and keep it from melting away from future generations. reggie: i like that.

drew: if someone can do what he can. money. reggie: does anybody have an attachment to this? drew: no. kumasi: i like the regular bars and i would say -- i can see why they would say other things are popular. drew: do not mess with the drumstick. reggie: i hundred percent agree with that. drew: that is when i reach for all the time. kumasi: really? reggie: i was always suspicious of the choco taco. i do not know why and i would see that and i -- are you talk about the ice cream man? drew: yes. the ice cream man was a guy who came around your neighborhood. that sounds creepy now. but he was totally chill. reggie: the choco taco was on there along with some really crazy popsicle that looked like a rocket. drew: and a clown with gumball eyes. did we live in the same village? reggie: are we the same person. kumasi: the same village. [laughter]

reggie: i left it alone. drew: me too, i did not mess it -- i did not mess with it. the bottom of the drum strike -- of the drumstick was chocolate night a friend who ate that first night felt like that was a sign of a sociopath. reggie: is he in prison now? drew: we are not in touch. let us look outside right now. we have foggy skies out there and here is how the day shaping up, very unique. not only do we have fog, but we have a slight chance of thunder, inland and the north bay. hazy sunshine through midweek and on live doppler 7, what is happening in the atmosphere. a low-pressure system off the coastline and talking about the high pressure just sitting over the four corners taking monsoonal moisture rotating clockwise and out is funneled into northern california. we zoom in and you can see the lone line of showers through

eastern contra costa county on its way to napa and sonoma county. the last lightning strike was purported before 4:00 a.m., but we have not seen lightning but we are tracking a line of showers around 8:30 around petaluma. that is something we are watching first thing this morning. the showers will fall apart shortly after 9:00 a.m. it is not a big concern in the afternoon bu aftrom t oak fire from reaching our service, so the wind is gusting over 20 miles an hour. the highs are cool along the coast in the 60's, some afternoon sunshine, six denied oakland. hazy sunshine in the inland and north bay. lakeport, 97 degrees. overnight the marine layer comes back and we will have coastal drizzle with temperatures dropping into the 60's. there is a slight chances morning with hazy skies continuing today and tomorrow.

they are the coolest days we have for the work week and we warm up by the end of the week. it looks really nice, morning fog and afternoon sunshine. kumasi: coming up the seven things to know. reggie: is napping bad for you? about the conditions that you might develop. kumasi: a california woman injured after this endangered animal bit her.

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wrongful termination. kirkpatrick was chief for three years before being fired in 2020. drew: we are tracking an isolated line of showers with a history of lightning working through eastern contra costa county into solano county and we will keep our eye out if we see more lightning strikes. for parts of the day hazy simone -- sunshine with smoke aloft and 60's close to the coast with 70's and 80's away from the coast. jobina: traffic is good. a couple of wind advisories for the altamont pass and for the venetian bridge. but this live look from oakland, it is nice and clear. kumasi: make sure you get your tickets because the mega millions jackpot tonight has gone to the third largest in the game's history. a cash prize is $810 billion in the drawing is at 8:00 p.m. reggie: in the first look as grocery prices soar more people are turning to social media to save time and money. >> look, strategies

for cutting spending and stress at the grocery. from tiktok. the hashtag grocery hack trending with 86.4 million views. >> grocery prices are crazy and you are likely feeling the pinch. >> she is calling a capsule -- a capsule collection for your groceries, stock up on staple items. >> some of the heavy hitters are tortillas, eggs, black bees -- black beans, onion, pull on a and mushrooms. >> create a bunch of different meals but from pretty inexpensive items, and you are using the same ones so you are not buying extras that you do not need. >> what other money and time-saving tips can we learn from the savvy tech talkers? it'd -- tiktokers. it is coming up at 7:00 a.m. kumasi: a woman bit by a monk seal mother in hawaii is not

going to be facing any fines from the state after this scary encounter. >> get out. ma: wow. officis 60-year-old california eleme teacr when the monk seal known as rocky bit her. the woman had injuries to her face, arm and back. state officials say they would not recommend charges or fines from the woman who has requested to remain anonymous. an investigation found that the woman did not provoke the field. officials say more should be done to educate tourists about wildlife rules. >> hawaiian airlines is doing a good job at it is up to other airlines to step up and help educate visitors for their own safety. kumasi: the national oceanic and atmospheric and ministration is also investigating the incident to determine if the woman

violated federal laws. she is expected to be ok. reggie: i hope you all been getting your best lights rest because a study shows that people who nap regularly are at a higher risk of stroke or high blood pressure. they pointed -- they said this might be because although napping itself is not harmful, those who nap often might do so because of poor sleep. i mean poor sleep usually equals poor health, people who typically nap during the day are 24 rushed when he 4% more likely to have a stroke. great. kumasi: what? now i cannot even nap in peace. i love a nap. that is the problem. reggie: did that just tell people they nap because they are not getting enough sleep? kumasi: and then they said you would have a stroke. reggie: cool. say hello to the grammy winner

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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> it was shocking to me, that they would do something. reggie: two san francisco residents stunned, a strange situation leading to a ticket on the street. the story will only see on abc 7. reggie: the settlement by the city of oakland to pay one of the former police chiefs. the massive mega millions prize. a fast food chain founder hoping to say winner, winner, chicken dinner. kumasi: ok. reggie: good morning on this tuesday. kumasi: let us check in for a look at our forecast. drew: does it hurt you every time you have to stay -- to say the story about the lottery. reggie: all of a sudden i've

cast myself as anti-lottery and i am not sure why of taken that stance. this is my hole and i will make a big deal out of it. -- this is my hill, and i will make a big deal out of it. drew: we are tracking a line of showers following highway 4 into solano county. it has a history of lightning. stkes.htning th lt e reported was shortly before 4:00 a.m., so it has been 90 minutes since we have seen a lightning strike. as it moves in county it is falling apart, but over the next couple of hours this line of showers we are tracking entering the north bay. it will fall apart around 9:00 a.m. temperatures in the upper 50's to lower 60's. a live look at the south bay with mostly cloudy skies. yet rid of the showers first thing this morning, and then we will find hazy sunshine with smoke from the oak fire. most prominently again in the north bay and inland east bay.

a cooler afternoon today and tomorrow. we will take a closer look at the highs and another check on live doppler 7 coming up. reggie: tonight is another gigantic mega millions drawing. the jackpot is $810 million and one fast food chain founder is hoping that he has a winning ticket for thousands of incident -- of his employees. ryan curry is live to explain that. ryan: good morning. teamwork makes the dream work in that case as cliche as it sounds and that is what they are trying to do. this is such a large sum of money, enough to easily change someone's life. the question we have is that -- is that while the winner be tonight and somewhere in the bay area? it is happened before and now we are trying to see if that is going to happen again this year. you mentioned the jackpot, $810 million, we did not get a winner on friday and that jackpot has

gone up. it is one of the largest in the game's history and it does not beat the $1.5 billion from a few years ago but still a lot of money, even after taxes that is $400 million. let us talk about raising cane's and they are doing something pretty unique. the founder bought 50,000 tickets, one for each crewmember. that does out -- that comes out to $16,000 if they win. that is not an $800 million prize if you end up winning it or 400 million tax -- $400 million after taxes. that is a genuine one thing to do, if they end up winning since the odds are higher, it will be a payout for a lot of the employees who walk away with $16,000. we mentioned earlier at the top of the show that if i helped collect for the team and we win we will have to think of something on how we evenly

distributed. i think me and steeple take most of money and i will share the rest for the rest of the morning show team. kumasi: not probably. ryan: it will be some money, but it just depends on how much morning -- money do we end up giving you. kumasi: that is not going to work. reggie: this is exactly why do not mess with us. it tears people apart, it tears families apart. kumasi: it tears families apart? [laughter] reggie: look at people who win lotteries. kumasi: that is true. ryan: i do not think i want to look that up at this moment. but you know what, i will be ok in the end, it is just a matter of how much money do we divided up by? kumasi: i will come up with a contract, just you wait. reggie: you all have fun. ryan: it sounds like a great plan. kumasi: there are new warning signs this morning about the economy. walmart has slashed its profit

forecast and we know that this is coming before we get critical data that could show that we are heading into a recession. jobina: this announcement is a big concern for investors. walmart says inflation has driven up the price of food and gas so much that shoppers are cutting back on high profit items like clothes. yesterday the shares dropped by 10%. the former ceo says the move to lower its profit outlook mid-quarter is rare. >> i know they did it once when i was there and i've been gone for a long time. this is an inter-period morning that is very uncommon for walmart. jobina: all of this is coming days before the commerce department is ready to set a major release that is anticipated to show america's economy shrinking for a second consecutive quarter, generally understood to be a recession. president biden and the white house are downplaying some of the fears. the president hopes "god

willing" that we do not enter a recession. one positive sign for all of us has to be the gas prices because they have been dropping since last month. the average price is down to $5.70 a gallon that is from $6.32 a gallon a month ago. reggie: a san francisco couple is scratching their heads over a strange parking problem. they were issued a fine for parking in a space painted red while they were parked in it. we went to sf mta to get the bottom of what happened. >> as with many neighborhoods in san francisco finding a place to park can build a desk can be a bit of a full-time sport so if you have a regular spot like desiree and jeff you will park in it. >> any time it is open i've been parking there for 25 years. >> what happened to them one week ago was a first. >> we came out from the store and i noticed the ticket on my car. >> desiree had been hit with a

$108 final for parking with a red zone. >> if it was warranted i did not have a problem but it seems unfair. >> it was not there when she parked a couple of days earlier. >> they had the nerve to go around her tire. >> you can see the patch that they missed, and a moving detail for jeff. nd>> i spoke to a representative with sfmta for the new stripe, it was for a faded one, very faded. sfmta provided me the service request and this image showing how worn the red paint was. google map images that we pulled from 2016 and 2020 once show the same curb which appears to the naked eye nearly paintless

hence why they parked in the space for so many years. because a couple contest of the ticket sfmta says it is up to the citations clerk to determine if it will be dismissed, a process that could take 60 days. >> i am going to take chemotherapy so now i have to worry about this. >> they say after all of the challenges of living in the city including another vehicle related drama. this is their final straw. >> we want to leave becausel ofn the city. >> to say hello to a new home in france. in san francisco, abc7news. kumasi: they going to france? alright, we will update you on that. while you were sleeping brittney griner wasa russian courtroom. new video shows are entering the court in handcuffs and she has been held for five months since being arrested on drug charges. she admitted that she had eight

canisters but attorneys argued that she uses them to treat chronic pain. cannabis is legal in russia. she is facing 10 years in prison. reggie: new fallout from the robb elementary school shooting in uvalde, texas. the principal has been suspended with pay. the district would not comment but it comes after legislative investigations found that annie gutierrez was aware of security problems but did not take action to fix them. she joined school district police chief pete arrendondo who is on unpaid leave. the school district recommended that he be fired. kumasi: 5:40 and in the east bay the city of oakland will pay a former police chief $1.5 million being wrongfully terminated. kirkpatrick was fired for blowing the whistle on the police commission for alleged wrongdthis will cover her attors fees, salary and other costs in a statement kirkpatrick says she feels and will

continue her career in public service. she served as police chief for three years. the pacific ocean near san francisco is the coldest it has been a decade and scientist are blaming climate change. the temperatures have gotten so low recently, even the fish have been staying away and hanging out in warmer waters. scientists say -- say that climate change has caused changes in the wind causing cool water to rise to the surface and they are not sure how long this might last. increasing accessibility, the pilot program hoping to get people living with a disability a chance to enjoy the outdoors. reggie: britney spears reportedly back in the studio recording with another legendary artist. we are excited. first we will check in with rail. -- with drew. drew: we are talking about the smoke forecast, with hazy

sunshine in the north bay and inland east bay. wednesday we might get more of the elevated stroke across the east and south bay and that is something that we are watching closely. keep any of the smoke thousands of feet in the atmosphere from reaching the surface. the air quality today and tomorrow despite the hazy sunshine remains in the good category. we are tracking a lone isolated showers through eastern contra costa county with several lightning strikes right there which is why we are watching this line closely. as it tries to enter solano county it is falling apart as it enters the cooler marine atmosphere. then we will track this line of showers as it pushes to the north and west. santa rosa likely before 9:00 a.m. before the line of showers is completely out of here. this is something we are watching over the next three to four hours. 8:00 or 9:00 a.m., anything in the bay is falling apart. then we have the fog for the afternoon sunshine and then a

cooler day compared to yesterday. today and tomorrow are the coolest days. hazy sunshine inland. 81, hit -- san jose. the city will find the fog hard to break down. a little bit of afternoon sunshine and 66 in the city. hazy sunshine and 70's santa rosa to napa. that is the weather, let us get a check of traffic. jobina: good morning, taking an overall look we have the red line coming out of tracey, so a little slow. it is averaging around 15 minutes, tracy to dublin. ringing in the san mateo bridge camera. in the westbound direction it is getting very busy with all of the taillights on the right-hand side of the screen. very different story in the south bay as we bring you a live look from san jose showing you 101 and a beautiful sunrise. nice, no blocking issues, we have the wind advisory to the altamont pass and venetian bridge. and then antioch to hercules, 28

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reggie: this morning we are hearing from people demanding that dave chapelle shows in santa rosa be canceled. local activists are concerned about his past jokes regarding the transgender community. his four shows at the luther burbank center at the arts sold out within hours. they are concerned about the potential for discrimination and violence against transgender people. an online petition is growing. >> i think the important thing to remember is that free speech does not mean freedom from consequences. reggie: despite the controversy chapelle has his supporters. >> i do not think it has been since richard pryor that we had something like dave chapelle

that has been so free to speak their mind about any subject. reggie: the luther burbank center says it welcomes feedback and wants to keep the conversation going to find ways to better support the community. it is 5:47 and truckers have ended their protest outside the court evoked goodland -- of oakland which reclassified as independent contractors as employees. they say the law would cost them money. they successfully blocked cargo flow at the port or days as they picketed outside. mean your unions backed ab 5 saying that the companies use the system to deny appropriate raid -- appropriate wages. kumasi: efforts to bring riders back to the smart train shows an 83% increase since january. the agency has been working to bring people back since the pandemic and expanded service

and lowered fares. the ridership count is still below pre-pandemic levels at the june ridership was the highest monthly total since the start of the year. reggie: july's disability pride month and a pilot program is underway to provide an accessible option for biking. the adaptive cycling program allows visitors to benefit from nature while exercising in golden gate park with adaptive bikes. one in 10 reports having a disability and hal the age of 65. the recreation and parks department is paying for the program which runs through october. kumasi: after months of anticipation adele fans have reason to celebrate, she announced fans new dates for her residency. in january she had to postpone her shows and it happened less than 24 hours before opening night. now the show is back on and two dozen dates are set from november until next march. she announced the news on

instagram saying that she is a static. reggie: now to a collaboration we did not know we needed. nice peers is making a musical comeback with elton john. -- britney spears is making a musical comeback with elton john. she is back for a recording of tiny dancer. she said "i have not shared my voice in an extremely long time, maybe too long." and then she hit us with the remakes of baby one more time. did you not see it? drew: no. reggie: how did it go. i cannot remember exactly how she did it but i liked it. i thought it was good. kumasi: it sounds like a slow down? reggie: a cappella into her phone. i cannot believe you will miss this. this was just last week. drew: where were we? kumasi: i was -- reggie: she was clearly trying to tell us that she was ready to do something again which i am happy about. drew: it was just like a month

ago where we were like where is the new music and everything? lizzo, beyonce, britney spears. reggie: supposedly the britney thing is happening as early as next month. kumasi: i am proud and excited for her. drew: her next chapter seems fun. south beach, the bay bridge camera showing overcast skies, so our usual fog out this morning. what we will find is that we have a slight chance of thunder inland and over the north bay. easy sunshine continues through midweek. here is what is going on. low pressure off the coast line. high pressure to the east, the high pressure at this time of year over the four corners creates monsoonal moisture and now some of that moisture because of these two is getting funneled into the bay area. over the last couple of hours here is a line of showers through eastern contra costa county through solano county. it does have a history of

lightning at the last lightning strike we reported was shortly before 4:00 a.m., so two hours ago. we are watching this line as it enters the north bay around 7:12 around vallejo. again as it enters the cooler temperatures of the bay area, it is really hard to keep the showers together and keep any lightning from striking. we will watch that closely. the onshore flow continues today 20 to 25 miles an hour. hazy sunshine with the elevated smoke and parts of the bay area from the oak fire. temperatures from the 80's and land and 60's and 70's around the bay shoreline. cool along the coast and we keep the fog in the 60's. overnight tonight the marine layer comes back with temperatures in the 50's and low 60's. here is the seven-day forecast, hazy sunshine today and tomorrow. we will find the coolest days of the work week and then we cool down more -- we heat up more and

to the end of the week. temperatures are pretty typical of this time of year. reggie: big news for foodies, the new mediterranean restaurant coming to rock ridge market hall. >> my first reaction was did that just happen? kumasi: a terrifying

reggie: this morning we are on corpse flower watch? this is a livestream from san jose state's greenhouse facility where there waiting on terry titan to bloom and they are hoping -- they are hoping for it to happen for the end of the day. hold your noses because it will give off a foul-smelling -- smelling stents that will earn the corpse flower the nickname. the botanical name is titan era.

this is what it will look like when it opens up. a man shows off his prized plan. it is not just the unique pungent smell that makes it an attraction. many of these plans go years between blooms. kumasi: if you'd always wanted to know what you would look like as a lego, now's your chance. lego is testing out its many figure factory using different body parts or accessories. you can choose things like a laptop, pizza, pretzels and a tennis racket and there are other things you can choose from. this is only $12 you can only buy one per household. ok. lego says this factory is only in beta so you might not be able to get on the page, and when you get on the page you have to pick one person in your family to get one. reggie: ok. a close call for an oklahoma bus

driver. just two minutes into her morning route the deer smashed right through the front of the bus. >> my first reaction was did that just happen, and i was talking to it trying to calm it down. i was ok until i watched the tape myself and saw how close it was too ending up in my lap. reggie: woah. the driver was not hurt and there were no passengers on at the time of the crash. the bus has been repaired and it is ready to go back on the road. kumasi: she says that she was trying to talk to the deer and calm him down. reggie: she said the deer was ok? woah. kumasi: that is how you know she is a peaceful person. reggie: i think she is barely responding, she kind of moved by an inch. kumasi: and then she comforts the deer. reggie: that was just a whole 180, did you see that? kumasi: next, a group of

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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. reggie: -- kumasi: destructive wildfires, those were missing. laptop or seven is tracking rain and lightning across parts of our area this morning. drew is tracking the conditions in your neighborhood. reggie: good morning and welcome to july 26. drew: we are tracking a line of showers that has been working