on the january 6 investigation, the criminal probe underway and what former president trump had to say on his return to washington. kumasi: how much police are offering for information leading to the arrest and the deadly shooting of a new bird driver. reggie: progress fighting the oak fire. how a fire from 2018 is helping people on kumasi: the front lines. kumasi:mega millions turning into mega billions. the who jackpot that you could win. reggie: please, someone when this, i cannot talk about this anymore. kumasi: what if it is you? reggie: you will not hear me talk about it anyway. kumasi: it is wednesday, july 27. drew: this morning we have a lot of dense fog. a half moon bay down to a mile and a quarter visibility. visibility around petaluma. visibility getting impacted.

this morning, slightly cooler compared to this time yesterday, a lot of us sitting in the 50's, a couple of low 60's. 61, san mateo. 62, san jose. a live look outside showing the low cloud cover, and again there is a lot of drizzle close to the coast. likely if you are traveling, even windshield wipers for a second or two. fog for much of the morning slowly thinning so the marine layer is slow to pull back. 60's and 70's on lunchtime and then hazy sunshine. the fog hangs close to the coast, so it is pretty thick. 60's for the coast and 70's around the shoreline. we are tracking warmer weather in the days ahead. kumasi: this morning there are new developments in the investigation into the january 6 insurrection. "the washington post" is reporting that the justice

department is investigating former president donald trump's actions. this is totally separate from the investigation by the house select committee. jobina: this investigation into his role as part of a criminal probe to figure out what role he played and others as well in the insurrection, and if they should face charges. sources confirm that prosecutors have asked witnesses about trump and other former officials before a federal grand jury. however there is no indication that trump is the target of the doj's investigation as a former president return to washington, d.c. for the first time since leaving office. during a speech yesterday he outlined a hard-line criminal justice agenda, pushing the death penalty for drug dealers and arguing that the federal government should go around governors and use the national guard to fight crime. >> civil liberties of people, the safety of law-abiding americans cannot be violated by weak mayors and cowardly

governors. jobina: meanwhile the house select committee investigation is not slowing down with more public hearings planned for september and abc news learned the committee is in discussions with mike pompeo to testify as well. reggie: thank you. in the north bay despite controversy hundreds of people showed up in santa rosa to watch dave chapelle perform. it comes after members of the lgbtq+ community called for the performance to be canceled. here is j.r. stone. j.r.: hundred lined up to see dave chapelle perform in santa rosa tuesday night admist a call from some advocates for the show to be canceled. >> they cancel culture is out of control. j.r.: that opinion was echoed by those we spoke with you showed up to see him perform. >> it is political correctly -- correctness gone too far, that is what it is. you kill committee its and that

comedians and now it is thought controlled next? >> i am not saying that to say that trans women are not women. i am just saying that those [expected of] -- expletive]. j.r.: his jokes led to his minneapolis show being canceled. many people called for a show cancellation in santa rosa. those in the trans community are outraged that it was ignored. >> i would say that my organization is very upset, we are actually appalled by it. >> espousing the transphobia that he does, it normalizes transphobia. j.r.: is four shows -- his four show sold out in hours. >> it is super exciting and he is a legend. j.r.: those at the luther burbank center issued a statement saying "we appreciate feedback from our community and we have shared the collective concerns that we perceived with

live nation." chapelle fans boldly making their voice heard. >> i think if you want to look at it as hatred you are looking at the wrong things. that means you are probably looking for hatred, not looking to laugh or relax. >> some things deserve to be canceled, certain points of view that people have that needs to die away. but comedy is -- cancel cloture -- cancel close -- culture is not for comedy. j.r.: no protesters showed up. he will have additional shows on wednesday and thursday night. in santa rosa, j.r. stone. kumasi: developing news on the oak fire near yosemite. there are positive signs for crews trying to contain the flames. the fire has reached the burn scar from the 20 ferguson fire where there will not be as much dry brush to burn. a number of evacuation orders have been reduced to warnings.

it has burned 29 square miles and is 26% contained. say it -- san francisco fire department says i have 17 members battling the flames. lee san mateo county firefighter talked about what it is like to battle these big wildfires. >> the next season is worse than the one before it. it has been busy. i am usually out on 314 day assignments a year. and they are young -- and they are long summers. kumasi: steep and rugged terrain continues to pose a challenge. we have tools so that you can keep tabs on the wildfires burning throughout the state and how they are affecting the quality, the air quality where you live. you can check it out online on our interactive air quality tracker on abc7news.com. reggie: the report for information leading to the arrest of a deadly shooting of a new bird driver has increased to $20,000. he was shot and killed in the

little saigon neighborhood two weeks ago when he was getting ready to go to work. community members are calling for justice and change, they want more police controls and more effective investigations. >> we are hoping to find ways so they are more resources to prevent crimes from happening. >> until someone is caught, this will continue, you will see more press conferences and more victims. more armed robberies. reggie: oakland police say a new liaison officer has been assigned to patrol the area and officers are talking with a business to provide a police substation. kumasi: monkeypox cases in the u.s. have gone up by 33% in the past four days. there are more than 3500 confirmed cases, most in any country in the world. the vaccine clinic at zuckerberg clinic is going to be closed today because of a shortage of the vaccine.

the health department says it has asked the federal government for 35,000 doses and has only gotten 7800. the head of new york city's health department wants the world health organization to rename the virus. he said this would avoid " stigmatizing patients who may have elected to seek care." the covid surge may have peaked in the erica. -- in the area. the average of 43 daily cases per 100,000 residents yesterday down from 40 92 weeks ago. let bay is seeing less cases with 38 cases. the positivity rate is at 15% and it peaked at 16.3%. reggie: now to the top story you are clicking on, the gigantic mega millions jackpot now at just over $1 billion. no one matched all six numbers in the drawing, and here are the numbers from the $830 million drawing.

seven, 29, 60, 63, 66 and the mega number is 15. ryan curry is live with more on lottery fever. ryan: good morning, eve -- even we did not win as a team yesterday, but that just means we have an opportunity like everyone else to win more money when that comes on friday when the drawing happens. you mentioned over $1 billion, one of the highest prizes that we have seen. california will lottery did project this to happen when i spoke to them yesterday. they said most likely if last night's drawing did not lead to a winner the prize would rest over $1 billion, the second highest in the competition's history. we are 500 million short of the $1.5 billion prize but we can say we are getting closer. there is a chance that it could keep rising before friday as well. california lottery says sales is

what drives the jackpot up and there could be plenty more sales with a prize that big. >> those states and jurisdictions come together and look at the sales and how it is doing and growing sales are really what supports the jackpot. ryan: they also mentioned jackpot rises more with people buying, which means the odds of winning becomes much harder. you are more likely to be struck by lightning among plenty other things as well. this is also a reminder from california lottery that they want people to play safely. as a jackpot rises they do not want people to go on a frenzy spending more money on tickets that they simply do not have. they want people to play responsibly. drew: i do not think you have to worry about reggie spending more than he wants to on lottery tickets. billions of dollars at stake. a live look showing that we have the fog moving inland, so a lot of us waking up to gray skies.

we will get afternoon sunshine, look at the pollen and uv index, tree pollen and mold spores all at low levels. once we get the sunshine later on in the uv index it is very high. where the sunscreen if you will be outside. hour-by-hour, 11:00 a.m., the fog is thick over the city stretching to parts of the east bay like richmond and berkeley, sunshine away from the coast and we are slow to warm because of the marine layer pulling back. 50's and 60's and 70's in the warmer spots inland. it is a wide range of temperatures, hazy skies and a little bit of smoke but all in all the air quality remains good. cloudy coast -- close to the coast, 60's and 70's around the shoreline. 80's if not warm not -- low 90's away from the coast. the summer spread continues. the three day forecast shows fog to sun with hazy sunshine and then friday it is warmer.

we go into the low 90's inland and low 80's around the bay shoreline. we will preview that we can forecast in eight minutes and we will first say hello to jobina. jobina: we have a wind advisory for the altamont pass and decide for that we have no blocking issues, just like drizzle. though on the bay bridge those in and out of san francisco. a live look at the san mateo bridge, same thing emeryville, but the traffic is building for those traveling westbound on the left-hand side where you see the headlights. it is slow for supercomputers. tracy to dublin, 14 minutes. san rafael to san francisco, 15 minutes. reggie: this is one of the first things i looked at this morning, songs of the summer. former president obama list -- releasing his annual list, and of them very familiar to our mornings team. kumasi: an important item left behind, what had to be

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reggie: twitter is moving forward with plans to sell to elon musk. they are asking shareholders to vote on the 44 billion dollar offer september 13. the vote is happening is twitter prepared to go to battle with moscow in october. twitter will ask a job -- a judge to force musk to complete the deal. earlier this month he announced he is trying to back out alleging that twitter failed to give him enough data about spam accounts. kumasi: disappointing news for kite flyers. berkeley's kite festival has been called off. it was canceled in 2020 and 2020 one because of the pandemic and this year the issue is funding. instead of the usable 1000 permit fee to the city organizers say the prize went sky high. >> we would always pay permit free -- permit fees and food vendor fees and in addition to those we were asked to pay

$45,000 additionally. kumasi: wow. the city of berkeley declined to do an on camera interview with husband told abc7news that the city council approved news special event fees to offset the berkeley marina's financial issues. organizers are paid to cover the cost of things like police, fire, garbage, and extra staffing. reggie: in the south bay a recent celebrity sighting has the city buzzing about what the superstar left behind. amanda has details on what it took to return an actor's lost wallet after it was left at a local fruit stand. amanda: the fruit upon -- barn has attracted customers from near and far for decades. it is a recent stop by a famous celebrity that has gary with the nt farms considering new decorah. >> i thought about putting a sign up, will note -- william

shatner was here. amanda: he happened to leave behind his while it. when staff spotted his crew were too young. he showed up for work thursday and saw the wallet. after his shock, he texted a friend, an officer with the gilroy police department. >> i said we found this wallet and he was not quite sure, i thought i was telling a little joke. >> i called gary to try and figure out why gary of all people has mr. shatner's wallet in his possession. amanda: and in the race was on to connect with captain kirk who need a stop to purchase baskets of chilled cherries and corn. >> he paid for it prior to getting the corn and i am assuming he had his wallet in his pocket in his shirt pocket. >> the thought is that he walked over and bent over to pick some items and lost his wallet. it took two hours to connect

with shatner's agent about the wallet. the officer says that celebrity status aside the department made sure they did their due diligence. >> we were vague about what they -- what we found and we wanted to correlate not just the wallet but the contents. amanda: and then this tweet by shatner himself thinking b&t farms and gilroy pd and even mac -- mentioning them by name. >> when you talk about something and laugh about it and pass on the experience to other people to include my family and parents, big vans and all that, it is cool. amanda: shatner says there is no such thing as the unknown, only things temporarily hidden. in this case, his wallet. in gilroy, amanda, abc 7 news. kumasi: beyonce fans are counting down the days, hours, and minutes until he dropped -- until she drops her new album, and you know who else is counting down? former president barack obama. ♪

that is right, break my soul is at the top of obama's summer playlist. former president posted saying every year he gets excited to share his summer playlist because he learns about so many new artists from other people's replies. his top five pixar -- picks are. break my soul, harry styles, music from a sushi restaurant, the spinners, mighty love, feeling all right. reggie: i really like music from a sushi restaurant. i have that only playlist. drew: that whole album is good. reggie: i do not know what thames is. drew: google. reggie: tends across-the-board? drew: she is a nigerian singer, she is young. kumasi: she is good. she is good. drew: he also has the fat boys

slim praise you. do you remember that song? it is from the 90's. he has a wide range. kumasi: i do not think i know them. jobina: she is on essence. i cannot play because of the rights. commercial. drew: tc musgrave's. reggie: casey is on there, which one? drew: keep looking up. otis redding, that is a good song. i've been loving you. kumasi: we have good options. drew: bruce springsteen. maggie rogers, that is where i am. there are a lot of things that we have to listen to during the commercial break. he has good music. what will be our number one this summer? reggie: break my soul. drew: yes? reggie: yes. kumasi: until the album drops. drew: lizzo has some good songs

on ready to be loved. that is when my favorite so far. kumasi: reggie: i -- reggie: i cannot say that one that i like due to regulations. drew: everything just breaks on friday and then we go insane. fog over the city and a coastal drizzle and drizzle over the bay bridge. we have fog, clouds and patchy drizzle. hazy skies and we are tracking the smoke aloft. the air quality stays good. minor temperature fluctuations that we are not tracking intense heat. this is just creating hazy skies. we will watch more of the smoke aloft trying to push closer to the coast late tonight and tomorrow morning. nonetheless, hazy sunshine over the next couple of days. all of the smoke coming from the oak fire near yosemite. the onshore flow keeps the smoke from reaching the surface meaning today and into the weekend the air quality where you live, work, and play stays

good. hour-by-hour future cat -- future tracker wind gusts showing the onshore flow is gusting 20 to 30 miles an hour and we will do that again tomorrow. cool in the city, 65 and cool in oakland at 69. 82, san jose. 77, napa. ukiah, 98 degrees. the fog is surging inland and drizzle makes a comeback with temperatures into the 60's. keep the hazy sunshine today and tomorrow, it might warm up by the end of the week. we will find a cooldown, and afternoon sunshine both days and a little warmer early next week. kumasi: coming up the seven things to know. reggie: aaa making it easier to pick up its online -- your first

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assaulted employees july 18. low lonnie for now -- if you see them, please contact police. kumasi: the federal reserve is set to raise interest rates by .25%, the fourth rate hike this year. reggie: the mega millions jackpot has crossed the $1 billion mark after no one matched all six numbers. the next drawing happens friday. drew: morning fog and afternoon sunshine and a wide range of temperatures. 70's around the bay shoreline. jobina: we are following a major crash right now in vacaville on westbound 80 past sherry glen road. the speed is down to nine miles per hour looking at eight vehicles involved. kumasi: a new proposal would keep san francisco's great highway car free on weekends for the next three years. the supervisors introduces plan. thousand showed up to be a part of bay area soccer history.

sky 7 was over over -- oracle park as fans flooded in for the championship tour. real madrid is the defending euro league champ and club america is the most successful league in mexico. it is the first match that real madrid plate at oracle. reggie: ordering food online and picking it up has made it easier. aaa opened its first -- chipotle opened its first chipotlane, allowing customers to pick up their order without going inside the restaurant. you cannot order or pay, this is for pickup. the chain is planning to open five more of these chipolanes in northern california this year. campgrounds closed. the bay area park that will not let you sleep under the stars next week. kumasi: everything but the butter, the new item from home depot that has customers sounding off. reggie: the 49ers getting ready

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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. reggie: now at 5:30, interest rates expected to be raised again, the impact your monthly budget as the fed tries to slow inflation. kumasi: alleged attacker identified. pittsburgh police need your help to find this man accused of assaulting a bakery employee. reggie: keeping the great highway free of traffic, a new proposal. kumasi: becoming a billionaire, the mega millions jackpot port -- soaring because nobody won the jackpot. reggie: good morning. kumasi: we want to check in with drew for the forecast. drew: finding areas of drizzle and dense fog that drizzle moved to the city and the coast, dense fog in the north bay. petaluma down to two miles visibility.

visibility is improving along the coast and we are now at seven miles. the fog is ebbing and flowing and a little cooler compared to this time yesterday with most of us waking up to mid 50's and low 60's. here is the kane street camera and a live look at san francisco. shrouded in fog with a little bit of drizzle over the bay bridge and the western span in and out of the city. here is how the day shapes up. mostly cloudy skies in the sun is up here. the fog will thin out so we will get hazy sunshine later on. the fog will cling to the coast, 60's along the coast and 70's along the show -- the shoreline. >> let us see if i cannot make you a multimillionaire tonight. kumasi: you know what, nobody won the mega millions drawing but that did not stop millions of people from checking the numbers. it was a top google she lurched -- search overnight and because the megamillion's website to for

two hours. here are the numbers. seven, 29, 60, 63, 66 and in the megamillion's number was 15. this drawing was $830 million. because no be won the drawing friday night prize is $1 billion. ryan curry has more on this huge prize up for grabs. ryan: good morning. $1 billion is a pretty astronomical amount of money when you consider that this is usually in the millions. they have not even changed the sign yet because they are trying to figure out what happens next. we do know that the next drawing is on friday night where people will be anticipating what might come from a higher jackpot than what we saw earlier this week. california lottery did project this to happen and they told me that if they could not find a winner that this jackpot would rise. they should not be too much of a surprise.

sales drive this jackpot and they expect more people to be buying tickets for friday given the fact that the jackpot is higher. this could make the odds of winning harder than the what they already all are. the california lotto asks people to play responsibly when people -- when the jackpot gets is high. people seem to be trying to have as much possible -- as much fun as possible. part of the fun is thinking about what would happen if you win that much money. >> if i win that much money the first thing i have to do is sail away. >> i get more sided -- i get more excited about it. >> it by me -- it might be my lucky day today, so do not knock it until you try it. ryan: luck will be on the side of anybody all over the country trying to chase the winning ticket. somebody did get some luck yesterday in california. someone in baker won $1 million off of a ticket. good news for that person, bad news for the rest of us, especially this abc 7 morning

team and our winning ticket did not win like the rest of everyone else even though we filled it out as a team. that is what happens when you face immense odds. it only gives us a chance to maybe win on friday. think of it as a glass half-full approach. we are alive and walnut creek. reggie: i just want something to win for my own mental health. thank you. the federal reserve is set to raise interest rates once again in the efforts to cool the record high inflation. it is on an attempt to stop the rising cost of everything. jobina: thank you. the fed is expected to hike interest rates by .3 -- .24 -- .25% causing an extra 283 dollars in interest to pay off the average credit card balance of $5,010. in some ways the previous increases have already worked. gas prices are down $.60 from a month ago and yesterday the

president's top economic adviser would not say if he believes that inflation has peaked. >> the reduction in gas prices over the last couple of weeks is providing some measure of breathing room, not enough but some measure. jobina: i agree that the gas prices have changed a few cents here. air travel, the average airfare is down $293 and that is for round-trip domestic flight this all and in may the average was $204. the announcement is scheduled at 11:00 a.m. so we will have it on midday live and we will send a push alert from the abc7news app. reggie: ceo's from prominent gun makers will face lawmakers looking at gun violence in america. here is a live look at washington, d.c. where the testimony will happen starting at 7:00 a.m.

the house oversight is looking into the responsibility that the gun manufacturers have into gun violence. they hosted a hearing last month with testimony from survivors of mass shootings caused by assault rifles. the hearing comes after the committee asked for information about making the sale and marketing of weapons using mass shootings that were purchased legally. a strong 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the philippines and could be felt hundreds of miles away in manila. a 16th-century bell tower crumbled in the moments after the quake. at least four people have died and 60 others were hurt and there are reports of 58 landslides. kumasi: a really shocking story out of southern california where a woman is accused of posing as a nurse to steal newborn babies. she is facing kidnapping charges. she would stop by the parents as -- she was stopped by the

parents of a baby. it happened at university -- riverside university health center. a second mother is making similar claims and a judge has denied her bail. >> someone who puts this much into snatching someone's child, i do not trust. kumasi: the da's office said that she had ultrasounds from two other hospitals with her name on them, and had been telling her family for months that she was pregnant. oakland's community safety task force is launching their first ever day of action held on international boulevard from 82nd to 90th avenues providing resources for the community enclosing housing help, workforce training, youth environment programs and even free haircuts. the district seven city council offices says this is to address homelessness and other interest -- issues impacting residentaa. reggie: pittsburgh police are

asking for your help finding the suspect who vandalized a local bakery and assaulted employees. there is a photo of the suspect, a pittsburgh resident. he is the man seen in the surveillance video grabbing a counter display and throwing it at an employee. the employee and owner were hurt. this happened at the star bread bakery. the man got angry because he did not want to follow covid protocols inside of the bakery. kumasi: did a mysterious sound keep you awake saturday night? the mayor figured out what was going on. >> it literally sounded like [ hums the jaws theme] kumasi: i just am here for the descriptions. the mayor said that the sound was heard by hundreds of people across west contra costa county so he was on a mission to figure out what caused the noise even offering a $500 reward. well it turns out that the sound

may have been coming from an outdoor park and an industrial lot. >> apparently it is a cultural thing where people get a pickup truck and pack the bed full of high-powered sound equipment and then they come together in some kind of a venue and they play all of the stuff at once. kumasi: a man who claims to be the father of the organizers says it was just his son's 20th birthday party. that party is possibly a misdemeanor. reggie: it sounds like that from across the street at -- from the club. i know that song. [humming a song] reggie: a popular bay state park closed its grounds to campers due to low water flow of peter

squeak -- peters creek. issues from restrooms, shower, drinking water and fire suppression. they had similar closures in 2014, 2015, and 2021. the 18 miles of trails remain open for day use. kumasi: san francisco's supervisor introduced a proposal to keep the great highway free of traffic on weekends and holidays. the great highway was closed to traffic during the pandemic but it has started to allow cars on weekdays last august after neighborhood groups were lobbying to reopen. it is scheduled to fully reopen once the city lifts its official covid-19 mandates. they are hoping that the city can find a more permanent visit -- vision for the highway. reggie: officials will consider lowering expressway violation fines and making them consistent. the initial poll transportation -- diminish apollo -- the

municipal transportation commission wants to lower the fines. currently the fines vary by location. kumasi: sequoia hospital strike, what hundreds of workers could be at risk of losing if they continue to protest. reggie: a new addition to google maps and how you will see global landmarks without having to leave your home. drew: that is cool. 5:40 a.m. time -- san rafael, 101 in your view. partly cloudy skies and some drizzle close to the coast and parts of the bay bridge as the marine layer is with us again. pollen and uv index, tree pollen and grass pollen at low levels. once we get the sunshine out here as the fog moves westward, that uv index is running high. wear the sunscreen if you are out for long periods. future weather showing that the

fog breaks down but by 11:00 a.m., cloudy over parts of the city and east bay. broder skies away from the coast but in the 70's before lunchtime. later on it is one of the cooler days stock in the low 60's. low 70's around the bay shoreline and into the low 80's. 65 in the city. 69, oakland. 82 san jose. 79 santa rosa. 90 antioch with hazy sunshine. 86 in concorde. minor fluctuations in hazy sunshine with the smoke aloft. a little bit warmer by friday but the first half of the weekend crew -- cool temperatures down. let us say good morning, jobina and see how traffic is doing. jobina: we are following a major crash in voc avail. an ambulance has been called out onto the scene. there are 10 cars involved. this is right at westbound 80.

this is cherry glen road. sorry about the graphic disappearing but that is the location. speeds will be around six miles per hour and i will keep an eye on it. the golden gate bridge is nice and clear, no fog advisory. it is beginning to get busy and oakland, a live look at the coliseum. for those ref -- for your reference those lights are traveling southbound. antioch to hercules looking good. the highway four commute looking good. highway four to the 16

reggie: in today's first look the tennessee man accused of killing his wife on his honeymoon has made his first quarter. . andrew has that. andrew: honeymoon more -- murder mystery, the man accused of killing his wife on their

honeymoon appearing before a judge. an attorney for his family telling gma that the 36-year-old matt bradley dawson months before the memphis area couple married in february. he says a trip to the south pacific was a delayed honeymoon turn harder. dawson not yet entering a plea but ordered to remain behind bars. we will have much more on this mystery coming up at 7:00 a.m. abc news, new york. kumasi: brittney griner is expected to testify for the first time in a russian courthouse. this is new video of her walking into the courtroom in the past hour. yesterday her attorney said the cannabis oil lawyers -- was for medicinal purposes prescribed by a u.s. doctor as a painkiller.

her attorney say that she might be cross-examined by prosecutors after her testimony but it is unclear and up to her to decide if she will answer those questions. she has been detained since february after being accused of bringing illegal substances into the country. she is facing 10 years in prison. kumasi: aa -- reggie: the vallejo police officers association is discussing reasons for voting no confidence against the chief. they claim that the failed leadership is the reason for a mass exodus. he has been police chief since 2019. the department has been plagued by multiple scandals since before his arrival. kumasi: hundreds of sro workers are going on strike after calls for higher wages. single room occupancy hotels serve people in poverty who otherwise would be on house.

"the chronicle" is reporting that workers are striking in the opposition of the housing clinic. bargaining talks have made progress on worker fatigue and allowing mental health days but have dragged on for eight months when it comes to the key issue of wages. reggie: new details on the sequoia hospital workers strike. they could lose health benefits at the end of the month. they have been striking since july 18. the owner of sequoia hospital sent out in email saying that the health plan requires employees to work full-time. they confirmed that those on strike would lose access to the health care plan. dignity health said that employees would have their health care restored once they resumed work. the workers union said the move was unnecessary and designed to break the strike. kumasi: a new addition is coming to google maps one including 3d aerial views of 100 famous landmarks including big ben, the

empire state building, the eiffel tower and the transamerica building -- pyramid in san francisco. all you have to do is search for the landmark and then find it in the photo sections of the maps app. reggie: first a 12 foot skeleton which makes sense but now a giant crab? some shoppers are baffled by home depot's latest offering. it is selling a humongous king crab statue for more than $1500. it is six feet wide, 89 pounds, the description says we provide everything but the butter. it says that the colossal crustacean can transform any harm, home, garden, restaurant, and hotel into something truly magnificent. she looks thrilled. kumasi: we need you to be a model. reggie: but you are next to a crab. what should i be doing? just gently touch it.

shoppers are leaving their own reviews and one person vote just wrote just why? in one person said great now all i am going to see our larger-than-life crustaceans on my facebook. it comes weeks after home depot sold out of its popular 12 foot skeleton for halloween. the skeleton is in the theme. the crab, i do not know. kumasi: it is for somebody. i likes the skeleton. drew: the skeleton was very popular. reggie: does it really do what i'm saying, it blinks like that? drew: it sells out fast. reggie: how is that happening, are those screens? drew: things are cheap now. you can put screens on anything. kumasi: that is actually really cool. drew: the crab just sits there. i feel like there is a buyer who absently bought the crabs and like how are we going to sell these? reggie: that would be good if you were in maryland. drew: and specifically close to

the water. reggie: and if you have a seafood restaurant in ocean city. drew: it is a very niche customer. i wonder how many they have and if they are here. kumasi: why is it $1500? drew: is it inflatable? these questions. let us get ryan curry on the case. that amount of the lottery and into home depot. do they have the crab, ask the important questions. why do you have this? who is this for? is this what we need? ok, if you buy the crab, let us know, take a picture. partly cloudy skies in the marine layer has pushed inland this morning so we are feeling a little bit cooler compared to this time yesterday with fog and clouds in a patchy drizzle over the city and the golden gate bridge. hazy skies especially inland because of the smoke from the oak fire hovering in the atmosphere. minor temperature fluctuations

to the upcoming weekend. let us talk about the smoke. the forecast shows a horn sean -- an orange contour and hazy skies. what we are watching into thursday, some of the smoke pushes us to the coast and we will likely see hazy conditions into thursday afternoon. with the onshore flow, the marine layer keeping the air quality nice today and tomorrow and friday and into the weekend we can breathe easy despite seeing the hazy sky. hour-by-hour, the onshore breeze picks up again and we will likely see a repeat of that tomorrow continuing this pattern for much of july keeping the breezy conditions into the afternoon. highs today, 60's close to the coast. 60's and 70's. 80's and 90's inland. the coast stays socked in with the fog and hazy sunshine. overnight tonight the fog pushes inland, patchy -- patchy drizzle along the bay shoreline.

here is a seven-day forecast, a pretty steady pattern with a minor warm up. the weekend is looking nice. saturday cooler than sunday and pretty typical. earlier next week we warm up with morning fog. reggie: someone just saved the choco taco. the place you can still get them in the bay area but in a slightly different form. kumasi: the actor who played fort -- he paid $40 million for a home along the coast. reggie: how the oakland a's are teaming up with a day wanna help kids get their homework done? well, an internet connection's a good start. but kids also need computers. and sometimes the hardest thing about homework is finding a place to do it. so why not hook community centers up with wifi? for kids like us, and all the amazing things we're gonna learn. through project up, comcast is committing $1 billion dollars

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reggie: steph curry will throw out the ceremonial pitch before the game against the houston astros. they are teaming up with the

oakland a's to help 1000 kids in oakland. the day of baseball at the coliseum designed to provoke movements, exercise and literacy and fun with lots of activities. prior to the game the kids will take the field with the players for the national anthem. kumasi: the 49ers are opening training camp with our first practice. yesterday the head coach announced that trey lance will be starting quarterback this season. jimmy g reported to camp and now both sides await a partner. the open practices sold out. they play their first preseason game august 12 against the packers. the regular season starts september 11 against the bears. brad pitt can live like a king if he chooses. he just reportedly paid $40 million for a california castle. according to "the wall street journal" it sits on a bluff in the highlands. the local agents as the sale is one of the priciest ever closed.

it is known as the d.l. james house dating to around 1918. where is the house? reggie: that is what i am saying. drew: will he put the castle on airbnb? kumasi: absolutely not. look at this house. drew: is it nice? how me bedrooms. kumasi: let me see. drew: does it look like a castle? does it have tourette's. kumasi: he already has a mansion close by. reggie: does he? kumasi: that is what the street say. drew: close enough to make a compound, multiple houses, multiple castles? i want to be so rich i can buy a castle. reggie: let us stick with buying a condo. kumasi: castle on castle on castle, a castle for every day of the week. drew: he is here saying get a one bath, one bath condo. , you are just like this. kumasi: that is all you need.

drew: bay area where you aspire for a one bedroom, one bathroom condo. coastal drizzle with temperatures in 80's and 90's inland. kumasi: that was quick, sorry. we will tell you about this cat controversy. a tap -- a top scientific institute labeling them as an invasive species. reggie: on the ground up and oak fire, things might be turning in firefighter's favor, as i talk about the challenges they are up against. kumasi: signs this morning that the summer covid surge i'd of

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>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. kumasi: making news right now at 6:00, president trump back in d.c. for the first time -- former president trump back in d.c. for the first time since the january 6 attack. >> we are actually appalled by it. reggie: and a controversy in the north bay. the dave chapelle show will go on. kumasi: and it's going to be hot, but not too much longer in some places.