Stunning scene when you pull in to lafayette from interstate 680 and on highway 24, look what you can see at this huge fire on this hillside. We are along highway 24, we are north. The fire is north of the highway and you can see it is very smoky right now. Hopefully that means they are get water on it a lost water on it. The wind is taking the smoke over to the spring hill neighborhood. That neighborhood at this point from my Vantage Point does not look like it is in jeopardy but it will get a lot of smoke and what the people waking up in the area are going to wonder what is going on. It hook like they will be dealing with aftermath of the smoke. The high school is also on this side of the highway but it is on the other side of Pleasant Hill road. This fire is burning off of deer hill road and Pleasant Hill road on the other side from the high school. Spring hill almost friday is on this side however. This is something that neighbors in the area will want to wake up and get as much information as they can about hair school and their neighborhood before they head out the door. We will try to get closer to the fire after this report to try on get some of the facts for people. We could not get over this view. We wanted to show you the size and the scope of this fire. Traffic seems to be flowing fine open highway 24. People could be stopping and slowing to look but there is nothing obstructing you from getting influence the area. It does appear to be a huge fire on the hillside which we are going to try to get closer and closer to as we cover this thousand the morning. Stay with us we are getting on the scene and wanted to show you the pictures and an impressive sight and a lot of smoke and fire but it appears to be held to the hillside that does not have homes on it. If you have pictures or video of the fire please abc7now. We would like to see them. Meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. Hot in the east bay. Absolutely. Good thing this is not breaking out in the middle of the day when it is well over 100. Confirming with leyla and she will have a map to show you that bart, east of bart, it is east of all of those memorial crosses for the Fallen Soldiers in the fight against terror. Like i said, leyla will show you that in a second. I show you how bright it is from the east bay hills camera. It look like the fire has created its own wind. It is going right up the hill. That is how the fire is spreading. The environmental wind is calm. Leyla . We are going to look at traffic open highway 24. Seeing if things are slowing down at all and it appears it is not affecting traffic. 75 Miles Per Hour as you leave 680 and walnut creek as you push into the westbound direction and as we get closer we hone in on the area and oak hill is to the west of where the fire is burning and the bart station is further to the west from that. It appears that in trains are affected. Bart and everything is all running on time. Matt and eric . The santa cruz District Attorney is holding a News Conference this morning to discuss the Madyson Middleton case. The 15yearold boy accused in the crime, as the community struggles with the heartbreak series of events. Janet o is in santa cruz with more. Matt, the District Attorney is expected to announce later this morning if the 15yearold teen who lived here at the tapry will be charged as an adult he is accused of murdering his eightyearold neighbor, Madyson Middleton, if his apartment on sunday evening. Police say he then tried to conceal the body in a recycling bin. He contemplated suicide and wanted to see how people would react to the murder. The same sources told a newspaper that he had sexually assault asked strangled the eightyearold girl. Last night, continue people gathered at the peach to the beach to celebrate the life of Madyson Middleton. Man volunteers during the search for the young girl. She was lured to the apartment because she knew and trusted him. Neighbors described the teach as well marched and nice. It is a crime many cannot make sense of. Any child in this community is any of our own kids. No parent should bury their child. Maddy was killed before hour mother made the call to the police at 6 00 p. M. On sunday. They have surveillace camera shows the team near the recycling bin which led them to do a more thorough search. A News Conference is held at 11 oclock this morning and the d. A. Is expected to announce charges to be filed against the teen and if he will be tried as an adult. Thank you, janet. Stay with abc for continuing coverage of the investigation of maddys death our coverage continues online and on the abc facebook and twitter pages. A public viewing will take place today for a fallen Hayward Police officer who shot and killed at a traffic stop. Sergeant scott lunger was a 15year veteran. The viewing is at chapel of the chimes in hayward. Scott lunger will be laid t rest with full autopsies. The procession route goes up mission boulevard and turns right on foothill and left on a street before then continuing up highway 880 to oracle arena, the Public Memorial Service begins at 10 00 a. Foils have talked with los angeles of a possible joint bid if the 2024 olympics. Giants c. E. O. Talked to an los angeles official about a egypt proposal of splitting the game. Boston was picked but they dropped out because of concerns over cost of hosting the olympics. The bid between the bay writer and los angeles reduces the costs and possible highibility. They want to have the bid ready for the Olympic Committee to consider by midseptember. Santa clara county is ready to fog for mosquitoes after tests were positive for west nile. Crewers crews are treating a portion of sunnyvale and san jose. Crews will work around 11 p. M. And the fogging should last only a few hours. East bay utility District Companies who replace grass with artificial turf will not be getting a financial break. The District Board voted against offering rebites to him owners who choose fake grass over real grass. Critics say the tub material ends up in the landfalls and provides bugs of the natural habitat provided by extras. We hit trillion digits. Yes include are lafayette and the car thermometer jumped from 80 to 100. The fire is burning to the north. Through the taller elevation. The city is upper 50s to let 60s from west portal at 57 to Ferry Building at 62 62 in richmond. Petaluma is comfortable at 56 and 24 hour temperature change, hooking at. Temperatures up to five degrees warmer this morning. We have fog along the coast. It has not made it to sfo but i will watch it. This is spare the air day with temperatures from the mid70s at the coast to 105 and maybe 107 inland. The heat will subside. 88 an the bay and 72 at the coast and dropping another five or ten degrees by saturday. I will let you know if that continues. As we start off by looking at the macarthur maze you can see the traffic is moving along desuperintendently and we have a report however westbound side of 80 near the toll plaza and an accident involving a motorcycle so we are going to check on that in a moment and i want to take you into oakland where you can see the slowing on southbound 880 because of 29th avenue near fruitvale we have another accident there blocking what appears to be three lanes and, in fact, a car is open fire. Flames were seen coming from the engine and they just updated this saying all lanes are currently blocked southbound 880 and you can see the backup is starting to build as you head beyond alameda approaching fruitvale and high street. It is growing and you may want to consider taking international as an alternate. If you plan on reselling your iphone do it now. Americas money report is next. New details of the hackers acaused of stealing personal details from thousands of Government Employees and another major hack. Continuing breaking news of the fire burning in the east bay you can see it open hillside on the northbound side of highway 24 the traffic is getting through there and emergency crews are on the scene as is our Amy Hollyfield with more when we return. We have a look at the bay bridge and it is looking warm today again. Hot inland. Stay on top of happy anniversary to me its safeways anniversary. Happy anniversary to me but youre the one whos gonna save some serious money. Happy anniversary to me right now with your club card brentwood sweet corn is 4 for 1. 00 tropicana orange juice or farmstand juice is 2. 49 and lays potato chips are just 1. 99. Happy anniversary to me. Safeways huge anniversary sale its just better. We follow breaking news in the east bay, right there on the scene. A fire burning long highway 24 in lafayette. We told you this is west of 680 on the north side of 24. Near Pleasant Hill road. The traffic on 24 is heavy but moving along and not affected by the fire. If you have pictures or video of the fire you can post it open social media with abc7now. We have confirmed that taliban leader is dead, and Officials Say the one eyed secretive leader was al qaeda ally and led a group against United States led forts after toppling him from his ruling in 21. There is in word on when he died, he has been declare many times before. And the taliban has not commented on the death of omar. New detail on the massive hack attack target the federal government and United Airlines detect add breach into the Computer Systems in may or early june and investigators are working with the carrier who hinges the attack to china which is behind other large hackerring including theft of security reports and medical data from Health Insurance anthem. An investigation is underway into why a passenger jet almost ran out of fuel before landing at an airport that was temporarily closed. It happened yesterday in fargo, north dakota. The air pilot contacted traffic criminal at the aiport for assistance and the response took the pilot by surprise. We have a window opening if about 20 minutes for landing. Why have 20 minutes. Airplane was closed for practice by the navys blue angels flying team. The dispatch can be heard telling the pilot he should have then about the closure and giving him a number to call for help. The plane declared an emergency and landed safely. The blue angels practice was suspended. The member of the Napa Police Department is three. Rocky came to napa from the Czech Republic an official member of the Napa Police Department during the swearing in ceremony and received an armor vest donated by a Electric Company in napa he has assisted in several drug seizures and he has led to five other arrests while pa rolling napa streets. We have kept you informed of the fire burn on the hillside of highway 24. How are the weather conditions . Mainly calm. The fire is create its own weather. You can see we have kept this shot still and the fire has climbed up the hill and continues to climb to the north and you can see the smoke, also blowing to the north as we do have a little bit of a sea breeze trying to blow through and it is the fire that is creating it at 64 degrees around the fire, we have a reporting station in a quartermile and relative humidity is 49 percent. Here is a look at flags they are different than yesterday and they are up and at attention and blow off to the east as we have a little bit of a sea breeze undercutting the dome of hot air. A sea express going to taper as we head into the afternoon hazy sunshine today, another spare the air day and poor air is probable and mild to warm tonight and cooler nights are on the way starting open thursday, and thursday afternoon, that is when we see the biggest changes in the humidity coming back with the heat breaking and isolated storm is possible on friday. Right now we have a little bit of prior hanging around petaluma in the form of fog and haze and four miles visibility. Napa can concord at eight and oakland around seven. As far as what will happen today we will start in south bay, going from 93 in milpitas and sunnyvale to nearly 100 in los gatos and morgan hill and 95 in san jose, and 95 in los altos and 90 in mayo and 85 in millbrae and be creative and fund ways to stay cool. Mid70s along the coast and nearly 80 in downtown and South San Francisco and sausalito. 97 at san rafael and petaluma to 100 in santa rosa and vallejo is the milder sport at 94. 83 in richmond. Hercules is 87. Oakland is 88. Hayward and Castro Valley and union city, in the lowtomid 90s. Triple digits starting off in the upper 60 to let 70s and it will be easy to get to triple digit inland. Midtoupper 80s in the Sunshine Feeling warmer than that and you will bake quickly. My 50 to midsick. Notice the clouds increasing to the overnight along the coast and the bay. Thursday and friday humidity increases. Best chance of a shower on friday. It will manically be in the high country and over the ocean. Saturday, temperatures are about 10 or 15degrees cooler. Still humid. Summerlike sunday and monday and tuesday. We take a wide picture of the bay area you can see where the red is located. It is going to be over the altamont pass. You can see the traffic is heavy. It eases closer to dublin. We have a couple of dots of red elsewhere. I will take you to those places. We have a sigalert southbound 880 at high street. An accident here involving a car fire. Six Miles Per Hour is the top somebody. You are backed up from 16th avenue. Take international. Do yourself a favor and take International Airport because c. H. P. Said there is no word when this sigalert is going to let up. We will go over to love yet and check out highway 24, still moving along at posted speed 67 minute approaching Pleasant Hill road. North of the freeway we have a grass fire burning. Visible from the freeway. You can see the flames and orange flow causing specific state slowing. As you continue closer to oak hill and the bart station it does not appear the trains are affected. Eric and matt . Southwest airlines remains the only Major Carrier in the United States allowing free bags. How long will that last . Here is members money americas money. Southwest airlines is sticking with bags fly free. The c. 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Three, this morning, the Santa Cruz County District Attorney is holding a News Conference on the murder case involving 8yearold Madyson Middleton. Miss say she was killed in the apartment of a 15year Old Neighborhood where she went willingly. A public viewing will take place today for Sergeant Scott lunger the Hayward Police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. The viewing will take place at chapel of the chimes in hayward from 4 00 to 9 00 people and the public memorial is held tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. We have a confirmed fatal crash on southbound 880 in oakland. Approaching high street you will fine most lanes are closed. It is becoming traffic up from 16th avenue. From the macarthur maze traffic is still light. However, that is all going to change soon as traffic continues to build and international boulevard is the best alternate. Our second and con secondive spare the consecutive air day and hotter in most areas 80s and 90s and triple digits. 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I am eric thomas. In the east pay we have breaking news, a fire burning in lafayette that is west of the Pleasant Hill road north of deer hill road. Aim is on the scene with the latest. I have robert with me right new from the Fire Department and can you tell me the latest . We received reports of a vegetation fire on deer hill road and it parallels highway 24. I expect there will be traffic impacted this morning. Right new we do not have an estimate on containment and we cannot see the size of the fire yet. I know it is greater than 35 acres acres and my guess is it is probably an continue acres. One home is threatened and that is up here threatened by this spot fire that started and the main period of the fire is over at top of the ridge where you start to get a flareup up this so we are trying to get this under criminal at this point it is concern because the winds are going to pick up. Thank you for the update were we are not of highway 24. The situation from our Vantage Point appears to be improving of the one fire captain said they feel like they are making progress. They are getting this. They are bringing in a lot of manpower to tackle this. We see one home on the hillside. We have talked to the family. They are safe. Their home looks oh came it is close. But they have fire trucks between them and the fire. That is a good feeling we can see the smoke blowing over this hillside to the spring hill neighborhood where you will find Spring Hill Elementary School and the high school is over there and at this point they say that no homes in the area are threatened. They do have fire trucks checking out brown street or avenue, to make sure. They are aware. They are watching the homes carefully. At this time they have not asked anyone to evacuate. They feel like the fire is staying to this side of the hill. We will continue to follow this story and keep an cry on this because the wind is picking up and as you her him say that is their concern. We will check with mike and more open winds. You going to have a fire now would be the best time if there is a best time because we are at the cool of the part of the morning with the highest amount of relative humidity and the lightest winds. In fact, our reporting station is calm. Next to the fire. You can see the fire is spread to the north because of the chimney affect as it climbs up the hill account winds are going to pick up and blow more to the north through the day. As far as our 12hour day planner, waking up warm this morning and at 4 72 at coast 100 inland and another spare the air day. I am sorry to say this accident in oakland is, in fact, a confirmed fatality. We have three lanes blocked southbound 880 near high street. 35 Miles Per Hour is the top speed. Both lanes are blocked and thing is alert is lasting for an unknown duration and the best boat is to take international boulevard with backups away from 980 and slowing northbound direction and spectator slow down to see what is happening. Further to the south we have another accident and it sounds like what has happened a car was traveling northbound lanes and ended up in the southbound direction so right now we have one lane that is blocked off at a street causing delays away from 237 i will update you on the slowing on highway 24 because of fire burning. Disturbing new details of the final moments of an 8yearold santa cruz girl. Police say Madyson Middleton was brutalized before the death at the hands of a neighbor. Janet o is in santa cruz. Janet . The District Attorney will hold a News Conference later this morning to discuss the charges compensation the 15yearold teen and, also, to say if he will be charged as an adult. The teen lived here at the tannery and now is accused of murder his neighbor eightyearold Madyson Middleton. 200 people gathered last night at the peach to celebrate maddys life and to mourn the loss of an innocent child. Sources told the chronicle she was sexually assault asked strangled in the suspects apartment on sunday evening. Police say the 15yearold hid her body in a recycling bin in the garage before her mother reported her missing. Surveillace camera show the boy making trips to the recycling bin which led detectives to do a more thorough search. That is when they discovered the girls body concealed. She knew the 15yearold teen and trusted him. Sources say the 15yearold teen contemplated suicide and wanted to see how people would react to the murder. Many are in shock and disbelief including the boys and gives club where maddy attended the summer. The kids expressed theirgraphy through art and now have counselors on hand. There are a lot of questions are our youth. Mostly, why did this happen . How could someone do this . Those are tough questions to answer. Maddy was last seen riding her white scooter at 5 oclock on sunday evening and her mother reported her missing an hour later and her body was found on monday 26 hours after her mother first made the call to police. The community is still grappling with the news. Neighbors describe thestein the teen as being poe height and well marched. The d. A. Will hole the News Conference at 11 oclock this morning. We will bring you the latest updates. Janet, thank you. Take with abc7 for continuing coverage of the investigation. Our coverage continues online at abc. Com and on facebook and twitter. Mandatory evacuations and road closures in effect after a flareup near lake berryessa. The wragg fire threatens hopes. 150 acres have reignited. It forces dozens from their homes. Hundreds were held to leave. Some were evacuated for the second time in a week. The fire has burned 7,000 acres last check. It was 80 percent contained. The fire has an impact far beyond the borders. Wayne freedman tweeted this picture of the smoke. The public is being invited to a viewing for Fallen Police Sergeant Scott lunger shot and killed last week during a traffic stop. The gunman got away but he was arrested a short time later. Sergeant scott lunger was a 15year veteran of the department. The chapel of the chimes is where the view takes place from 49 00 p. M. Tonight. A motorcade will escort his cassette with Memorial Services at 10 00 a. M. And are open to the public. Two bay area state senators will urge a competent to require contractors to report lawsuit settlements. A loophole was exposed by the balcony collapse. The contractors board should be notified of civil actions by a licensed contractor. The Construction Company that build the complex paid 26 million in legal settlements prior to the balcony california lop d collapse but they are not require to report the cases. A broken water line spilled 15 million gallons will be fixed by end of the week in san bruno and spilled for 13 hours. The Public Commission said they had to let the water if not it could have tainted the quality. Water is rerouted. A top nfl executive meets with raiders officials and city leaders on plans for a new stadium in oakland. Nfl executive Vice President cops over concerns that the plans for the coliseum city are not materializing. The meeting will address specific questions submitted by the raiders on what the city and county can offer to make the proposed stadium achievable. The fire battle continues in the east bay. Mike . Notice how we do not see the fire. That could mean it is burning into the valley. It could mean that the fighters are getting it under c we will talk temperatures in or rip da and lafayette at 67 degrees. And we have berkeley and san leandro and Castro Valley at 61 and fremont and union city and hair and almost at 62 and alameda at 63. Weighing up to temperatures in the upper 60s in livermore and 68 and san jose and fremont at 64. San carlos is 64. San francisco is 59. Novato is 57. In the afternoon, it will be as hot if not hotter today. Inland, then to 107. It will feel 10 or 15degrees warmer in the sun. Your body will be broken down fromming in the heat. Yesterday it was up to 95 in the south bay. The coast was up to 81 in San Francisco. Walnut creek is not too smoky. The winds are trying to blow the smoke to Pleasant Hill and walnut creek. I will tell you more on the weekend coming up. Leyla . We are in oakland with the backup continuing to grow southbound 880 we have delays from the 80 as we push in the southbound direction because of a fail crash at high street. 35 Miles Per Hour is the top speed and this is the sigalert with three lanes blocked until further notice. To the south of international boulevard we have a serious crash southbound 880, starting in the northbound lane with a car traveling and they ended you on the southbound side. They flipped over. They crashed. There is a big piece of 5 concrete broken off because of the accident. 57 Miles Per Hour along highway 24 as you head in from walnut creek to lafayette and the legal side north of the freeway is agrow with a brushfire causing slowing and more traffic is building because of the commute. However as we continue close to oak hill and Lafayette Bart we are sometime at posted spee we continue to follow breaking news in the east bay where fires are trying to get a handle on a grass fire burning fear highway 24. The first professional baseball game without umpires with history made at a bay area ball game. You can do it your self i will not deal with this. A 911 call controversy. What happened to the person on the other end of the line that is making the story gain national attention. A look outside at San Francisco International Airport with blue skies above and it does not look like there is anything here that would cause we have a fire continuing to burn with a lot of smoke and million cruise are on the scene. We saw a different view from the top next to the high school firefighters with bulldozer and spraying water to get the fire uncontrol because the heat starts. They are trying to cut the fire lines to prevent the flames from moving. One home is threatened. A firefighter believes the fire is ten acres. The biggest concern is the wind. If you have pictures or video of the fire share with us on abc7now. A new mexico dispatcher has resigned after hanging up on a woman during a frantic 911 call. Barely breathing. How many times do i have to fing tell you. Maam, you can deal with it yourself. I will not deal with it. The 17yearold boy the woman was trying to help died a short time later. The caller said she became annoyed with the questioning by the dispatcher, Mathew Sanchez because he repeatedly asked if the victim was breathing and hung up three minutes into the call. San jose mayor liccardo is urging Santa Clara County to revise policy on detaining Illegal Immigrants weeks after kate steinle was shot and killed in San Francisco by undocumented immigrants with several felony victims who was released without notifying federal authorities. According to the San Jose Mercury news mayor liccardo wrote to the board this month ask them to publicly discuss and change the policy in an effort to increase safety. Baseball history will be on display again in marin county tonight. We were at the san Rafael Pacifics game for the first time, an automatic umpire was used in a professional baseball game every strike and ball was determined by video triangulation because of the three cameras mounted away the baseball field. The margin of error is less than an inch. It will help to make sure you are getting what you deserve. Why like it because you cannot yell at it. I like a real human being the home plate umpire was needed for close plays. Supporters hope it will take off and make its way to the major leagues. You can tell but it will not yell back. It will not respond. It will not talk. It makes games with billy martin look tame. The dodgers has been then out a lot this year. Now, the fires. How about this, our east bay hills camera showing smoke so the fire is on the other side of the rim right now up to ten acres as we look from the east bay hills camera and temperatures are 64 and humidity is 48 percent and the winds at the reporting station are calm and a fire can create its own wind as the rising air draws more air in. 101 and 880 and san jose and we are going to have hazy sunshine and you can see it there already developing in the south bay, poor air told. Mild to warm tonight and cool air will filter in tomorrow so tonight you will have a difficult time thinking. It changes on thursday and isolated storm is possible on friday with the infusion of moisture. Inland east bay, Santa Clara Valley most likely areas do have poor air quality today and inland east bay tomorrow and it will be going green friday and saturday and through the weekend. Winds are light and variable to nonexistent but fairly is an onshore brief and thin. Winds pick up from the west delta back to the bay bridge and the golden gate bridge. The bay is not like it was yesterday like glass. Storm track is to the north and a record high in oakland year. We will be pretty close to records but rebel fall short across the south bay midtoupper 90s 95 right there in san jose in the middle and 90 at san mateo and 95 in redwood city and los altos and 85 in millbrae with more comfort there. Mid70s along the coast and it will be afternoon. 97 in petaluma and san rafael and triple digits in santa rosa and north and midtoupper 80s for a few spots including richmond and heck lease and berkeley and everyone else in the lowtomid 90s along the east bay shoreline and triple digits against inland east bay. Reasonable a degree or two warmer than yesterday. Heats will subside and when we drop four to seven degrees we are 70s and yeah at at ity at the bay and saturday we are closer to average but it will be sticky and the transition could bring isolated storm on friday. Have a great day. Leyla . The traffic in the east bay is intensifying m in oakland. Three lanes are blocked four Miles Per Hour is the top speed. We have backups from 980. To get from 988 and you have a flight to much can take 580 or international boulevard. The drive is 50 minutes. Normally it takes six minutes. It is serious crash. There are other ways to get an it and international boulevard is the Service Street you can take and that helps you out. To the south the delays are growing because of an accident on the northbound side of 880. It flipped to south. Now one lane blocked at 16 Miles Per Hour, southbound 880 and the delay is growing from Castro Valley and the pressure on 880 is on 237 20 Miles Per Hour the merge to 880. We follow breaking news if the east bay and the fire bun along highway 24 at lafayette, you can see the fire is burning west at 680 on the north side of 24 before Pleasant Hill road with the flames dry down quite a bit. You can see the burn area on the left side of the scene and on right there are flames still burning but it looks different than it did even half an hour ago. We can see the firefighters have made progress. If you have video of the fire share it on social media with abc7now. Bill cosby on the record about the sex scandal surrounding him. When we will hear from the comedian. Google takes it beyond the maps with vehicles that can help the air we breathe cleaner. The first transplant that is changing the life of an 8yearold boy. Google could help map urban air pollution with street cars fitted with mobile sensors that tested air quality. Though compared them to Public Health standards. Environmental Protection Agency has relied on Extensive Network of stationary devices to measure harmful airborne pollution. Now the epa can use more conclusive information gathered at the street level. This same technology will be used in San Francisco. Palo alto is taking find your happy place, to a new level working on a happiness map to highlight the places known and hidden where residents feel joy. The Palo Alto Art Center foundation is paying a berkeley based artist 2,000 to create the map. The city is kicking in 5,000 to make copies of the map which are available to residents and visitors for free. Now a check with the news meteorologist meteorologist mike nicco. Good news from above. It looks different. No flames. Limited amount of smoke. The temperature is 64 and the humidity is helping. At gale, mid70s at at t and high u. V. Index and feeling 1015 degrees warmer. High fire danger near the oregon border through the evening and triple digits at yosemite and palm springs and clouds are increasing. It will be humid 75 in san diego and 84 in los angeles. Leyla . Mike, we will start with the bay bridge toll plaza, the metering lights were turned on 20 minutes ago and charlotte is joining us. You can see through the spider webs and traffic is heavy coming away from the macarthur maze and other parts of the bay area i will take you to oakland where southbound 880 is a mess because of a serious accident at high street and the sigalert is in effect with three lanes blocked and international boulevard is a best alternate route if you have a flight to catch be prepared for a 50minute drive. Another accident and southbound 880 is very slow. An eightyearold baltimore boy has two new happens this morning after an operation that doctors are calling historic. He had a severe infection when he was low that required doctors to an state. Happens trance maps have been done on adults but this is the first for a child. It took a team of 40 ten hours to complete the operation. He cannot wait to have a party to show off his new hands. Tom bradys defense after the suspend was upheld and what the superstar is saying this morning to protect his reputation. Google trying to help you save time and money. The buttery jack was a huge success. People went crazy for a burger with melted garlic herb butter. Now, heres the sequel. With portobello mushrooms. Boom. Hang on, i dont want anyone to trip. Ok. Oh yeah. Thats jacks new portobello mushroom buttery jack, the sequel to the classic and bacon swiss, topped with the same melted garlic herb butter plus portobello mushrooms and grilled onions. Spoiler alert its awesome. Abc7 news begins with breaking news. Firefighters get the upper hand on a fire burning in lafayette. We hear from people who woke up to massive flames along highway 24. Good morning, everyone, i am it. I am matt keller. We want to get to the latest on the fire. It is west of Pleasant Hill and north of deer hill road. Amy hollyfield is at the scene. What is going on now . They have in fire knocked down. You can see the hillside is blackened. We do not see fire. There was a home on deer hill road in lafayette that was notened. It is surrounded by fire trucks and well protected. The family get out without any rones and got the dog out. They are fine. This is the only home threatened during the fire. Look at the figures we shot when it was going. This fire was raging. The hillside was lit up north of highway 24, very visible to commuters this morning and very bright and raging. It burped ten
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