for the vice presidential debate. our coverage starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern time right here on abc. and that is "what you need to know" for today. i'm demarco morgan. >> rhiannon: i'm rhiannon ally. >> dr. darien: i'm dr. darien. >> rhiannon: for all of us here at abc news, have a wonderful day. ♪ [ applause ] you don't have a home or like, oh, might as well come to the office. >> the heats may be the key to get people back in the office. as our heat wave spikes. we have a look at the hotspots and find out when cooler weather will come back. good afternoon, i'm kristen z. thanks for joining us. it's unusually hot out there with temperatures about 25 degrees above normal inland

cities are expected to sizzle with a high here in livermore expected to reach 107 degrees. san jose could see a triple digit high, and the high in san francisco will be in the 90s. let's get right to abc seven weather anchor spencer christian with the latest on this heat wave. spencer i think that's the hottest temperature in two years here in the city. it is. >> that's right. we hit 90 degrees here in san francisco in 2022. on this date, 92 is the expected high today. the record for this date is 97. san francisco is not likely to hit that record today, but let me show you current temperature readings around the bay area. 92 in san francisco, 93 in oakland, right now look at the inland areas, 102 at fairfield, 101 at concord and livermore. livermore, by the way, expected to reach 107 today. 101 is the record high for this date in livermore. so that has been tied already. so let me move along and just show you a couple other things that play in to this heat wave. so high pressure obviously the controlling factor in our weather right now. and we have heat alerts. in effect the heat advisory is indicated by the

orange color. so you can see how many areas are under the heat advisory in effect until 11 p.m. tomorrow. more concerning. more serious is the excessive heat warning, which is indicated by the areas in red and that covers the bay shoreline. all of the east bay, including the hills and the inland areas. parts of the north bay, virtually all of the peninsula and santa cruz mountains down into the south bay, and during this period of time under this excessive heat warning, high temperatures will range from 92 or 90 3 to 105 degrees and higher. now we are fortunate that the winds are as light as they are a stronger offshore flow would increase fire danger significantly. there are already high fire concerns, but no no red flag warning in effect yet. but as those winds rush downslope flowing out to sea, the air compresses, it gets hotter, it gets drier, and of course, that contributes to higher fire danger. so let's hope the winds don't get much higher. you can see right now most locations are about 7 to 10 degrees warmer than they were at

this time yesterday. so let's get more specific and take a look at current readings. 91 in san francisco. we are about to hit that 92 forecast 93 oakland 96 hayward san jose 99. it will be over 100 in san jose today. redwood city 95. only 77. in only 77. that's warm by half moon bay standards. 103 already in santa rosa, 97 in petaluma and napa, 102 at fairfield in both concord and livermore are at 101 uh. lots of people are going to santa cruz beach today. that's uh- advisable. a smart thing to do. the forecast headlines are these dangerous heat wave is with us. obviously record temperatures likely over the next two days. elevated fire danger. of course it will be dry and breezy in the hills. and friday the heat moderates briefly for just one day, and then temperatures bounce back into the triple digit range on saturday. so for this afternoon, we are forecasting highs of 105 at santa rosa. and san rafael and fairfield. numerous locations will hit 100 107 livermore 106 to concord, 102 at

san jose and antioch up to 99 around the bay shoreline in places like fremont. and here's the accuweather. so not at the seven day forecast yet. this shows you how much higher than average our temperatures are right now. i think kristen referred earlier to the fact that most locations are up to about 25 degrees warmer than average for this date, so on we go to the spare the air alert in effect through today and tomorrow. it will temperatures the temperatures, the air quality will moderate on thursday. and here's the accuweather seven day forecast. three more two more days this week of triple digit heat. temperatures drop a little bit on friday. back up to triple digits on saturday and sunday uh. >> all right, spencer, before you go, look, sometimes we do get that final blast of heat in september or as late as october, right. but when you look past this week, if we can make it past this week, look at the longer term. is this it? i mean, do we have another heat wave in store? this, this fall or are we

done? >> well, how about this kristen. possible, but not likely. it's very unlikely that we'll have a heat wave like this later into this month. month of october. but with the way weather extremes are becoming more frequent these days, we can say looking at all the all the indicators and all the computer outlooks, we don't see anything developing like this well, the remainder of october, but we can only forecast accurately what our weather is going to be for about 7 to 10 days in advance. so i can tell you that after next monday, we don't we don't see anything developing in the triple digit range for at least several days. but later this month, with the extremes we're experiencing right now, it could happen. >> i'm going to hang on to your vision for the next 7 to 10 days. okay? hope that's it. spencer. thank you so much. appreciate it. you can track the heat wave with the abc seven bay area apps. you can access the forecast with the same live doppler seven tools that our weather team uses, and will send alerts right to your phone when there are any important updates. all right. this is important. we

heard for the first time today from the giants new president of baseball operations buster pose. the team introduced him in his new role this morning. posey replaces farhan zaidi. zaidi was the team's president of baseball ops for six seasons. during which time the giants made the playoffs only once. abc seven sports anchor chris alvarez is here now with a look at this new chapter for the giants. chris, president posey, good to see you. >> president posey, you said he could almost be. he dresses like the us president. he really does. looking good today at his press conference. now, you mentioned the lack of success kristen. today giants turning to a man who helped bring a dynasty to the bay. future hall of fame catcher, three time world champ buster posey now takes over as the team's new president of baseball operations. he was introduced earlier today alongside giants owner greg johnson and manager bob melvin. he's got the nice jumbotron jumbotron shot there. no secret the giants have failed to meet expectations over the last six years. outside of that 2021 season, they did win a ranch a franchise record 107 games that year. then they lost to the dodgers in the division series,

and it was over. that was posey's last season in uniform, and then he retired. he then joined the ownership group in 2022. now, just two years later, he's going to lead the charge as the new president of baseball operations. >> when you do put a great team on the field, other people, you know, free agents, what have you are going to be more inclined to come if they feel like they have a chance to be a part of a winning team. as far as you know, my pitch to possible free agents, i just have to say what i believe, you know, and i believe that this is one of the premier places that you could play major league baseball for a multitude of reasons. a beautiful city, this ballpark, when it gets rocking and rolling, is at the top of the list for me now. >> posey also said the team is going to be hiring a new gm, pete pattillo, who held that role, is going to have a new role within the organization. giants got a lot of work to do. dodgers a perennial power, not to mention the padres. the diamondbacks are in the world series last year. they're in trouble just in their own division to try and make it to october. so a lot to do. but

posey hopefully brings credibility when you're trying to land free agents, and that's the big thing the giants need to do to land superstar players. they've failed miserably in the last couple of years. aaron judge, carlos correa, other pitchers. now they want to get blake snell in the fold, they got to get going with the posey talking to them. it should be a little bit. >> can i just tell you i think this is so fascinating too. he's got four young kids right. and he doesn't need to work obviously. and this job is 24 seven maybe 38 if you will. it's full time and more. what do you think is motivating him to take this on? >> i think he just didn't like what he's seen over the last couple years. he's passionate about the giants. he knows what this team is. he talked about how much it means to the city. and greg johnson, the owner, made a joke at the top and said, we'd like to thank kristen posey for basically giving buster up because that's no small feat. as you mentioned, he has he has a young family, but it just hasn't gone well. and buster, there's a standard here and he wants to get back to what the giants were when he played and all the great history, the giants have. it's just not been that way really, since he's left. >> well, we are certainly

rooting for him. thank you chris. absolutely and now we're going to shift gears. we're going to continue to follow developing news in the middle east. conflict is escalating after iran launched a missile attack overnight on israel. many of the missiles were intercepted with the help of the united states, but some fell in central and southern israel. according to the israeli military, this attack is in retaliation for israel's assault in lebanon targeting hezbollah militants, one of iran's main proxies. abc news reporter christiane cordero is tracking the latest from washington. >> missiles pierced the night sky over tel aviv, sending the war in the middle east into a new phase. sirens give the ominous warning for civilians to seek shelter. israel's iron dome intercepting much of the barrage stretching over the region. an official confirms the u.s. had intercepted some of the incoming missiles as well. idf spokesperson daniel hagari says central and southern israel were hit. abc's matt gutman is in tel aviv. >> iran is trying to clearly send a message after its main

proxy, hezbollah. and lebanon has been nearly decimated by israel's attacks over the past couple of weeks. >> iran takes responsibility for the attack. the islamic revolutionary guard says they focused on security and military targets, and just moments before the attack was a shooting in tel aviv that killed at least six people, seven others injured, according to israeli police, which suspects it was a terrorist attack. and earlier today, the israeli army announced it began limited ground operations in southern lebanon. but hezbollah denied israel troops had crossed the border. the chaos today follows 11 months of a war largely focused on defeating hamas in gaza. hezbollah and israel have also been exchanging fire ever since, but the tension there escalated when israel targeted pagers and walkie talkies used by hezbollah operatives. then a strike on its capital that killed hezbollah's leader, hassan nasrallah. iran now calls this retaliation for several assassinations. >> many people certainly here who are pro hezbollah will say

this is payback for israel. >> israel vows there will be consequences for today's attack. u.s. officials say they were briefed on israel's potential counter before the attack began. u.s. officials say they're working with the idf to assess the full impact of this attack, echoing israel's promise that this will have consequences. but did not elaborate on what that means. christiane cordero, abc news, washington. >> the situation is changing moment by moment, and we're staying on top of the growing tensions and attacks in the middle east. get updates anytime on abc7 news.com. happening now. nearly 47,000 dock workers at ports from maine to texas are on strike, and it could have a major impact on the entire u.s. economy. they walked off the job at 14 ports overnight, and the strike will stop the flow of goods over the docks, where workers are off the job. the strike could cost the economy up to $7.5 billion in a week, possibly more. workers are demanding a 77% raise over six

years. your voice, your vote. the vice presidential candidates will face off in a matter of hours in new york city. you see, the debate countdown clock there on the bottom right of your screen. kamala harris, his running mate, minnesota governor tim walz, has been having mock debates with transportation secretary pete buttigieg. minnesota governor tom emmer has stepped in to help senator jd vance. >> it's going well. going great. >> you're going to see jd literally expose tim walz for the radical liberal that he is. >> i wish the american media emmer says he's been trying to copy wallace's mannerisms so vance knows what to expect. meantime, walz has been working with a team of advisers and plans to highlight harris's vision for the nation. you can watch the debate right here on abc seven. live coverage begins at 5 p.m. so what do the vp candidates need to do to win tonight's debate? what is a win? we'll dive into the dynamics and expectations with politico's white house reporter

senator jd vance. in fact, this will likely be the last head to head between the two tickets since president trump has turned down another debate with vice president kamala harris. it's an interesting matchup between two very contrasting personality figures and both not very well known, really, to the american public. joining us live now to talk about the dynamics, the expectations and the stakes of tonight's debate. politico, white house and washington reporter daniel lippman. daniel, thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> so, in short, you know what is really the mission tonight? i

mean, what do americans want out of their veep candidate? >> well, most people are not going to vote based on who the vp candidate is. and so these candidates really have to stay out of trouble, not create their own headlines like j.d. vance has sometimes with his childless cat, lady comments, making fun of people who don't have kids, but tonight, what they really have to do is attack their opponent's boss, basically go after their the running mate not really attack each other because that's not going to win the debate, and you know, trying to kind of point out inconsistencies in their opponent's record. at the top of the ticket, that's going to be very crucial. >> all right. so let me ask you. it seems like there are very few undecideds left, right. and those fence sitters, at least some of the articles i've read, they seem to fall under. hey i like my financial and personal situation better. when trump was

president, but i really dislike him. if that is the conundrum, how does this debate even matte? >> well, this is there's only one presidential debate with these current presidential candidates. usually there's three. and so basically, this is you know, 2 in 1 cycle, and so it does matter in terms of, you know, creating a news cycle that is beneficial to whoever is perceived as winning, and especially with a candidate like donald trump, who he picks as the successor to the maga movement, that's going to be important. so this is really jd vance vance's opportunity to establish himself as someone who can kind of carry that ideology forward, but also not, you know, he he doesn't have to appeal. he should not appeal to hardcore conservatives, which he already has a lock on. he really has to appeal to a broader base, be more sympathetic and not just like he's talking on tucker carlson's podcast. >> right? he's got to win those

cat ladies back to cbs news has indicated it'll be the responsibility of candidates to fact check each other while they're fact checkers will provide real time verification only on social media and in the post-debate analysis. so i guess, you know, not the moderating anchor. what do you think about that? and for voters who really care about facts, what resources can they use? >> i think the onus is on the candidates to fact check each other, at times when it becomes very important, they're not going to nitpick. if there's a slight change, you know, they say, hey, the stock market went up, you know, 10% during this presidency. and when it was 9%. so i don't think that's important. but i do think that facts matter in this debate. jd vance has a tough job because he works. you know, he is the vp for a person who is not really bound by facts. and tim walz has been accused of kind of misstating some of his own resume, and you know, talking

about how he carried a weapon in war, even though he never served in combat. you i should expect jd vance to really bring that up, and kind of contrast that with how he served in the iraq war, even if he never actually fought. he was more of a combat journalist. >> right. that could be walz's achilles heel. so we'll see how he handles it. i'm sure it'll come up. but daniel lippman, thank you so much for joining us with your insight. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. so you're going to watch that tonight at 5:00. meantime, politico politics playing politics with that upcoming vp debate. it's serious business. but our media partner, the san francisco standard, has a way you can get into the game during the debate. and it may involve bingo, drinking

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the san francisco standard has once again come up with a political play along debate

bingo game. they detail it in this article. the standard's vp debate bingo card drinking game. joining us live now is the bingo host and standard senior cultural editor, astra cahn. hey astrid. >> hey. how are you today? good good, good. >> oh, i won a game. i mean, i got the popcorn ready. i don't drink, but, you know, i can get some sparkling lemonade. whatever but here it is. the bingo card you guys came up with. explain to us what we're supposed to do with this. while watching the debate tonight. >> well, first of all, if you're not drinking, i would recommend diet mountain dew as both of the midwestern contenders in tonight's debate are. that's what they pay for. so we created another five by five bingo grid that allows people at home to kind of have a little fun with things that are either very obvious predictions about tonight's debate or completely off the wall stuff that's very unlikely. >> okay. what are some of the stuff that you came up with? >> well, in order of like, likeliest to least likely, i think it's pretty much assured

that tim walz is going to drop a mention of the word weird, since that has been among the democrats attack lines against the republican ticket. and then probably there's going to be at least a few mentions of cats or cat ladies. oh, yeah. >> yeah. let's check out kristen sze picks. like what i thought would definitely happen tonight. it doesn't get me to bingo, though. unfortunately, even with that, you know, spot in the middle, the freebie. but i chose yale educated millionaire senator accuses nebraska educated school teacher of being in the global elite. right. agreed. you think that's going to happen? >> i think something very similar to those lines is almost assured. yeah. right. >> right. okay, cats. cat. ladies. that will come up. okay, i'll take a shot of mountain dew for each mention. i think i'll be taking ten shots and 90 minutes in. literally zero. registered voters have changed their minds. i think that i really think, i don't know, i hope that's not true. like, i hope people really listen and process, but you never know. >> you may be as cynical as me. i'm sorry to say. >> i know, i think so too, but talk about some of the off the

walls ones where it's just off. did i say off the walls? >> just for fun, i snuck in. i snuck in a little karate kid reference. i couldn't help it with frantic vents. remembers cobra kai dojo training sweeps. walter's leg like, probably not going to happen, but they're both military veterans. you never know, >> okay. maniacally cackling kamala harris pops second bottle of pinot grigio. i don't even drink grigio. thank you. spencer i'm so glad he's here, yeah. you know. okay. so why? i guess you know why make a bingo game out of this whole process of watching the debate? what's the big idea? >> well, i will say that we made one kind of as a lark for the trump biden debate back in june. and readers really enjoyed it. so we made another one for the trump harris debate. and then i figured, oh, what's one more? and so readers seem to be responding quite positively. so we're just giving a little service to our devoted readership. but why not write

like debates are not really the most fun? they definitely leave people with a sense of anxiety. we were hoping we could take the edge off just a little bit. >> the whole presidential election is giving people anxiety. what are you talking about? but yeah, no, no, five more weeks. >> you can do it. we can do it. america. >> okay. astrakhan. thank you. so much. appreciate it. and if you want to check out the bingo card or get more of the standard's original reporting on their website, go to sf standard.com. all right. coming up. still a group of elementary school students has taken on a mission to help save the world. one food scrap at a time. a look at how they've turned

near atlanta came up with a solution. abc news chief climate correspondent ginger zee shows us how they're doing it. >> it's lunchtime at luverne elementary, just outside of atlanta. but before the students leave the cafeteria, a group of them collects food that would otherwise be thrown away, saving it to make compost. every day at lunch, we compost our fruits and vegetables. >> we have our red buckets, and they just bring it around the table so everyone can compost. >> we just finished up collecting everything, so now we're going to go to miss hannibal's room and we're going to weigh everything. >> 18.6 pounds more than 18 pounds of leftover food that will help instead of hurt the planet. now, if i take the top of my green pepper and i toss it in the trash, it goes to the landfill. there it gets smashed between all the other inorganic stuff like plastics, and it mummifies and releases the worst

kind of greenhouse gas, methane. instead. i put this in the compost and there it breaks down organically. that's why the kids are teaching their parents, because it can save up to 90% of the emissions. >> the current projections of how much food waste we generate in america is around 80 million tons per year. when we waste food, we waste the energy, water, and often wildlife, habitat and nature that went into producing it. >> grants from the world wildlife fund helping students turn their cafeterias into classrooms, with the older students teaching the younger ones each step. using this machine to grind up and dry the food. >> that's good. and then we let it rest overnight, and then it would become this just mixed up fruit and vegetables. >> next they add leaves to the mix, then take it outside. >> we use a pitchfork and we turn them around. and once they've turned into compost, we use them for our steam garden to make our vegetables healthy. >> that garden growing food that helps feed the students, staff

and the community. >> it makes me really proud that they are just doing these things on their own. and to see just how passionate they are, they're excited to go home and tell their families about what they've learned. >> ginger zee abc news for them. >> a lesson for all of us. thank you for joining us today. world news tonight with david muir starts right now. and i'll see you back here for abc seven news at four. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. iran launches more than 200 ballistic missiles on israel. tonight, israel saying it will respond. also breaking, just a short time from now, the high stakes vice presidential debate. we'll carry it live right here on abc. 9:00 p.m. eastern. first tonight, iran's attack on israel. the conflict in the middle east entering a dangerous new phase tonight. air raid sirens and explosions heard across israel.