i'm part of abc north cal. i'm in the electrical apprenticeship. it is a state and federally recognized apprenticeship. if this san francisco project labour agreement is passed, apprentices like myself will not be able to work on this county and local projects due to the language in section five that was specifically excluding us. we strongly urge you to not pass the p.l.a., to allow all local residents equal opportunity to work on these taxpayer-funded projects. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm a nonunion apprentice. i currently work in san francisco. contrary to popular belief, i actually am from this city. i actually went to school right up there at gray's cathedral. i've been through and through this city. a lot of us are necessarily coming from out of town. we are here. given the language in policy for the p.l.a., a lot of us are not going to be able to work and we will, likely be doomed to residential work. everybody here, everybody here is talking about making money. and having a living wage. but if you work in residential, you will not m

abc 7 news. >>> now to developing news on the mendocino complex fires. cal fire issued new mandatory evacuations last night. this is the area north of the glenn colouisa county line, east of the mendocino national forest boundary, south of 308 and west of county road 306. the ranch fire which is part of the mendocino complex is 76% contained. it is the largest wildfire in state history burning more than 340,000 acres in a little more than three weeks. we sent this push alert at 10:00 last night soon after those new evacuations were issued. download our free abc 7 news app to get updates on evacuations where you live. >>> time is 4:31. if you're just joining us time to get an update on weather and traffic where you live. drew tuma in for mike today. good morning. >> good morning, guys. live doppler 7 and satellite and patchy dense fog as well. take a look at visibility, santa rosa when you get to zero that's as bad as it gets. you will encounter areas of dense fog in the north bay at this early morning hour. today it's a typical august day. a lot of cloud cover this morning. the marine layer is with us. that cloud cover will pull

abc 7 news. >>> now to developing news on the mendocino complex fires. cal fire issued new mandatory evacuations last night. this is the area northty line, east of the mendocino national forest boundary, south of 308 and west of county road 306. the ranch fire which is part of the mendocino complex is 76% contained. it is the largest wildfire

cal fire officially blamed pg&e for multiple north bay fires. the power company expects to pay more than $2 billion in costs relateded to those fires. >>> only abc 7 news captured this video of a runaway horse on monday near the carr fire. construction workers tried to corral the frightened mustang, but she got away. the owner saw this video on our abc 7 news facebook page which helped them track down their missing horse named ellie and bring her home. abc 7 news anchor eric thomas caught up with them today. >> hey, baby girl. how are you? >> you can't say everything is back to normal for teri fox of redding and her 3-year-old mare ellie. >> she has a puncture wound here and a puncture wound here and lacerations right there. >> but no burns, even though she was running loose in the thick of the carr fire. ellie is one of three formally wild horses th s thas that terig to evacuate by trailer as the flames closed in, but ellie refused to get in. >> i had to turn my become on her and make a hard decision to leave her there. >> there were rumors that ellie had been spotted in various areas, but nothing solid until someone told teri to look at this v

abc 7 mornings. some new numbers just coming in from cal fire on those fires in the north bay.he mendocino complex fires have now burned more than 300,000 acres combined. the larger fire, the ranch fire, is now 46% contained and the river fire is 81% contained. cal fire does not expect full containment until at least september. >>> all right. taking a look at the roads here this morning, a spare the air day is in effect, so if you can, car pool or use mass transit, that is definitely recommended. we're looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza right now. of course, metering lights are still on. those flipped on at 5:29 this morning. and just those carpoolers cruising through at this point. westbound 580, tracy to dublin, 46 minutes. 52 minutes, westbound 4, antioch to concord, recovering from a couple of earlier crashes. and no delays westbound 101, san rafael to san francisco. rafael to san francisco. >> alexis, thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these a

north bay. let's get up and get going. >> this is abc 7 mornings. >> and good morning. i'm reggie aqui from abc 7 mornings. we have an update for you this morning on the mendocino complex fires. cales. the larger ranch fire is 33% contained, while the river fire is 50% contained. 14 homes have destroyed and cal fire hopes to have full containment by tuesday. >>> how is our thursday morning traffic? alexis? >> well, we're doing okay, reggie. weapon don -- we don't have any major blocking issues. looking at the bay bridge toll plaza, still very busy, as you can imagine. you'll have to wait through those metering lights this morning. 43 minutes from tracy to castro valley. highway 85 to the san jose airport, 16. and highway 280, highway 1 ♪ you know when you're at ross and that cute dress gets even cuter? yes. or when you can say yes... to both? sure. or when you find that brand at that price? are you kidding me? yeah. that's yes for less. and that's what ross always has in store. whoa. (sighs) yes... oh, yeah. get your yes for less at the newest ross store in south santa rosa. he could possibly... he likes to collect things. oh! wow, you got all this stuff from ikea? what do you li