coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants in the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal one of the things that has to happen is that the politicians the leaders of the administration as well as congress state legislators and administrations in the states all those leaders have got to finally say ok we want to call in the two thousand election in west virginia was widely credited with giving. president bush the margin he needed to take the oval office was the first time that west virginia had gone republican in something like seventy years and guess what's going to happen come november we're going to carry the state of west virginia thank you called as he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it throughout mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through

the american lung association isn't just fighting for air. fighting for all the things that make it worth breathing. join us in the fight at fightingforair.org. >>> it was the perfect day to go out and fly a kite in berkeley. runs of people took advantage of great weather at the city's 26th annual kite festival. the event at the marina featured lots of food, art and high-flying kites of all shapes, sizes and colors. the festival continues tomorrow from 10:00 am to 5:00 p.m. . >>> this is the time of year to plan those -- not much of a change of our weather pattern. low clouds and fog keeping our temperatures, cool to mild side. right now, i'm watching another batch of fog off shore and already, you can see pushing back into the bay. south bay, san jose reporting partly cloudy skies, as we move the maps to the north, overcast for san fransco and also the oakland airport reporting mostly cloudy conditions. focast story for tonight is this increasing low clouds and temperatures inland on the clear side. we'll have few patches develop late tonigh

earlier this year, the american lung association gave tiburon an "f" for tobacco control policy. >> about 3,000 homes and businesses in morgan hill are still without power. pg&e expects power to be restored and we're waiting to give us an update. an underground cable failed. it affected more than 7,000 customers. >> firefighters are watching for flare-ups from a grass fire near tracy. flames burned about 400 acres and dry brush along interstate 580 before firefighters got it under control. they declared it fully contained last night. high winds pushed the flames through the dry brush. they threatened a few structures but nobody was hurt. >>> mike nicco is here now, i guess the temperatures are going to be backing off just a skosh today. >> we turned up the a.c.. >> just a little bit of heat and gradually losing temperatures. check out the monsoon bringing moisture into southern california, that is the same storm you see the sand storm that swallowed phoenix last night. we may see a few high clouds from that. what we're going to watch is the lower parts of the atmosphere, the sea breeze mo

earlier this year, the american lung association gave tiburon an "f" for the tobacco control policies this morning, pg&e says only 170 customers are still without power in morgan hill. they expect those customers to be back up by 11:00 this morning. morgan hill went dark and lost air-conditioning yesterday afternoon when an underground cable failed. the outage affected 7,000 customers. >> there was a brush fire near tracy hundred percent contained. it broke out yesterday afternoon. a vehicle fire spread to grass along freeway and high winds pushed the flames through the dry brush. flames threatened a few structures and nobody was hurt. >> we don't have any real runaway fires but the temperatures, they could happen. >> we're going the take it down a notch for the fire worries. >> when it gets in hot, the winds don't blow that hard in some areas. that was the case yesterday to get the fire contained. it's getting drier and drier by the day. here is a look of the haboob producing storm, big dust storm that is going to rotate into the sierra and bring scattered storms. ever so slowly it s

that is why in december of 2010, 280 groups including the american heart association, american lung association, american public health association and others sent a letter urging the congress to reject any measure that would block or delay the united states environmental protection agency from doing its job to protect all americans from life-threatening air pollution. this bill, an appropriation bill, is not the place to legislate these type of changes. these should be policy changes not made during this process. the clean air act is promoting innovation and breaking americans' oil dependence, but republicans would give big polluters a loophole to roll back our clean energy progress and continue our addiction to foreign oil. the clean air act is good for the economy. many studies have shown that the clean air act economic benefits far exceed any costs associated with the law by 40 to 1 ratio. as president obama so eloquently spoke of during his state of the union address, we must outinnovate, outeducate and outbuild our global competitors and win back the future. protect the air our children b

the american lung association isn't just fighting for air.re fighting for all the things that make it worth breathing. join us in the fight at fightingforair.org. >> remember a few days ago we were talking about heat advisories. a different story tonight and the remainder of the weekend. the fog coming back and with that temperatures are cooling off. the trend continues. on live storm tracker 2, there's the fog bank and patches extending into the bay. the oakland airport at last check reporting mostly cloudy skies to the northeast, because winds have been cranking up towards fairfield out of the west-southwest sustained to 21 miles an hour. this was the scene today looking out towards san francisco bay. you can't see from the city and quite a bit of boat traffic out there and patchy fog pushing out into the bay and as a result we cooled off quite a bit from yesterday's toasty readings inland. you can see the warmest locations in the 80s. san francisco only in the upper 50s at 59. for tonight, partly cloudy skies, fog will continue to be on th

and the american lung association, the american public health association, physicians for social responsibility, budget cuts or policy riders would impact e.p.a.'s ability to do their job. i don't know if our members realize that in 2011, we cut 16% from the e.p.a. now we want to cut 18%, over $1.5 billion. that cripples the very agency that protect ours water and our air. protects our children and our elderly. what is the response to our responsibility to be the custodians of this wonderful nation? what a beautiful country we have. then to hear that another 1/3 is being cut from the national land safe and conservation system that does monuments and trails and wild rivers. how many families pack up in times that are hard and take a road trip to travel the beauty of this nation, the tall mountain the deep valleys and the wonderful rivers? let me tell you what this legislation will do, it will be a litany of additional cuts, it will cut fish and wildlife and the bureau of indian affairs. it assaults what we're trying to do here in america. how many friends know that we have had over 230,000 death

lung. >>> giants infielder pablo was honored by the fbi today for his work to help protect bay area children. panda has partner with the american football coach association the fbi and the national child i.d. programide 50,000 fingerprinting kits to kids in san francisco. the kits include a fingerprint i.d. card and dna swab meant to be completed and stored at the child's home. >> pl i will have this program. i will have this program. >> for more information about how you can protect your kids and be prepared for disaster or crisis of any kind visit abc 7 news.com and click on see it on tv. >>> well dozens of kids cap a week of real life firefighter firefightersing in redwood cit city. they graduated from the junior fire academy and democrat stated some of the skills they learned at this week long camp. what a way to spend your summer. firefighters paramedic taught kids between the ages of 11 and 16 what it is like to do their jobs. participant execute drills designed by firefighters including extinguishing real fires spraying a fire hose completing an obstacle course an climbing a 100 foot ladder on a fire truck. that's how they spend their summer. >> a