Time it was our time. I had to go to the bed in the middle of all of this. We will have to change that somehow. Here is a look at whats going on, maybe we can get some thunderstorms in the morning, thats the case tomorrow. Right now its pretty quiet on live doppler 7. 62 to 67 is a little bit cooler this morning, a little cooler at noon, 74 to 81, 60s at the coast, low to mid 80s elsewhere. Temperatures pulling back from those highs we had over the weekend, 65 to 77. Notice whats going to happen, look at this right here, yeah, 7 00 it starts again and it will get even greater during the overnight hours, i will show you that coming up. Good morning, so far so good on the roads this morning, no major issues, in fact, we are wide open sit at this t the bay bridge toll plaza. Southbound 680, six 24 another 8 and 44 minutes 580 tracy to dublin. Next traffic update coming up right around 5 10. It was a show in the sky overnight. Did you see some of this where you live . The National WeatherServices Says it detected about a thousand glound to lightning strikes as of 10 00 last night. They caused Power Outages across the bay area. Pg e crews still working to get the power back for 1,800 customers, more than half in San Francisco and on the peninsula. Develop news this morning, at least 11 total deaths across three states now to blame from Hurricane Irma. Irma finally falling apart this morning. It has been downgraded to a post tropical cyclone, but remnants are expected to bring heavy rain today from the carolinas to kentucky. A tornado watch across parts of georgias coast has been canceled. Crews are working to restore power to millions of customers. It went through their kitchens their living rooms. These people have restored their houses three times in three years and thats devastating. Right now im at the mercy of when the water goes down where we can get out of here. The Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise lines plan to resume sailing out of florida today after a fourday hiatus. Mike nicco tracking irma as it slowly loses strength, he is at the weather desk with a quick update on irma as well as weather here in the bay area. Hi, mike. Jessica, hi, everybody. Great news, irma continues to unwind as jessica mentioned, it is a tropical depression now and its got winds of around 35 Miles Per Hour but you can see on the radar there that its bringing more rain but its lighter intensity to more areas from the ohio river valley all the way down into the Mississippi River valley to the carolinas to the outer banks there of North Carolina. Even some thunderstorms over the florida peninsula. Lets see where the track is going to go and look at the rain shield thats going to be very broken. So the winds are less of an issue, the rain is less of an issue, in fact, there is no flash flood watches, no real wind advisories expect for gusty winds through tennessee for the better part of today but i dont expect a lot of damage. Cleanup just beginning with irma, but the country still dealing with harvey. Happens tonight dozens of celebrities will be part of a special telethon to benefit those affected by hurricane harvey. George clooney, jamie foxx, beyonce, oprah, Reese Witherspoon just a few of the many celebrities that are expected to take part. The telethon will raise money for thousands of people in texas who were displaced and countless others who have lost their home because of the storm and continued flooding. You can watch the hand in hand benefit at 8 00 tonight right here on abc 7. Hopefully that will do a lot of good. A whole lot of hype this morning. Apple will unveil the iphone in its first ever event at steve jobs theater on its new campus. Matt keller is live at that new campus in cupertino. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning. Welcome to the spaceship, i dont know whats a bigger deal here that were actually on the campus of apples new headquarters and they let the media in or the fact they will be announcing the new iphone in this building right here, this is the steve jobs theater, this is the theater they will be doing the announcement in. Its tough to tell but its actually the theater seats are underneath here so its going to be a big deal later today when they make the announcement for the new iphone. That announcement is expected later this morning. Tech experts have nicknamed it the ten Year Anniversary model, a hefty price tag of a thousand dollars, thats twice as much as the original iphone. What kind of features can you expect . You can expect a dramatic redesign, the display will extend to all edges of the device, latest iphone is also epected to have a better camera and Wireless Charging capacity and may include facial Recognition Technology for unlocking the phone. Todays event starts here at 10 00 a. M. Reporting live in cupertino, matt keller, abc 7 news. My iphone already feeling like yesterdays news. Thank you so much. We are going to stay on top of todays apple announcement if you want to know all the latest information we will send it straight to your phone if you download the free abc 7 news app. Developing news in antioch, could an arsonist be on the loose . This is one of seven fires authorities here you see behind me theyre calling it suspicious and now they need your help. Katie utehs has a look at the damage and the investigation. I heard like crackling and like a loud noises so i looked out our balcony window and i just saw a huge fire and i told the whole family and ran out of the house as fast as we can. Reporter shane davis shot video as his father used a garden hose to spray the fire outside the Indonesian Baptist Church in antioch. I dont know why they would do that. What harm could a church do them. Reporter all of the fires are with an three mile radius. We do believe that there is something to that and that there may be somebody running around setting a bunch of fires. Happened out of nowhere. Reporter this man recorded video of the vegetation fire that threatened his home. He says firefighters were already near somerset place because of another fire. Made it right in time because this tree here was almost going to tip over, a whole bunch of branches fell on the roof. By the time they got here it was like just touches the house. Reporter nobody has been injured. The fires only have proximity and time frame in common. The thing that we dont really know yet is whether or not they are all related to one another. Reporter Contra Costa County fire investigators are asking any potential witnesses to come forward. In antioch, katie utehs. We have new developments, Uc Berkeley Police will investigate the viral video you may have seen, it was captured after saturdays football game. The video shows an officer citing a hotdog vendor for selling food without a permit and confiscating his cash. Police issued warnings to three outer unlicensed vendors at that game. It gained lots of attention for people who believe the hotdog man was unfairly targeted. Vendor tells abc 7 news that he was shocked when the officer took his money. Translator to be quite honest with you i want to get my permit and get my business going. Do things right and make it official so i dont find myself in that situation again. Abc 7 news spoke with Police Officers off camera and specifically the one involved urges the public to consider the full context of the situation and says he only took the cash as evidence to support the citation. Developing news this morning, an east bay congressman says he had no idea fraught lent contributions were made to his campaign. The sf gate reports representative eric swal we will accepted illegal donations in 2012 and 2013. The money now will be donated to dou charity. They said they did not know about the fraudulent contributions. Prosecutors say tong used others to make donations on his behalf to bypass Campaign Contribution limits. Now your accuweather forecast. A threat of thunderstorms lingering in the forecast again today and tomorrow. You see lightning you count. If you hear thunder in less than 30 seconds you need to seek shelter. You also need to wait 30 minutes after that last bolt of lightning to head outside just to be safe. So we appreciate all the video you sent us, but we want to make sure everybody is safe when they are out watching Mother Nature put on a show again tonight and tomorrow. Lets talk about whats going on. If youre heading outside right now we have low to mid 70s in brentwood, antioch, pittsburgh, mt. Diablo, up in the hills. Out towards liver more, 64 san ramone, danville, walnut creek, lafayette 69, cooler around liver more at 66 degrees. 70 in san jose right now, 68 in mountain view, 69 in San Francisco, pacifica and san carlos 66, napa and santa rosa at 61 degrees. Here is whats going to happen around the state today. Not quite as active as yesterday until we get to the afternoon hours and see those storms erupt across all of our Higher Elevations whether its the grapevine, the sierra and heading up towards the oregon border and even on top of us late this afternoon, into the evening and overnight hours we will have our better chance. San jose 400 of an inch of rain. 60s, 7. 0s and 80s tomorrow and 60s and 70s for the most part thursday. We will take a look at the quieter weekend forecast coming up next. Quiet on the roads this morning. I will tell you about a future pro a j ekt that starts tonight. They will be working on cleaning one of the bores for the caldecott tunnel. Bore number 4 will be closed in the overnight Hours Tuesday through thursday in week, 9 30 until 4 30 a. M. Bore 3 will still be open. We are looking at some fairly light volumes typically during those hours. I dont think its going to slow you down that much just a heads up over the next few evenings. A quick check outside here is a live look at the san matteo bridge. Today we are moving along fine between foster city and the hayward stretch looking in the green at just about 20 minutes for that commute. We will take a look at drive times coming up at 5 20. 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And cars in disguise. Ive cast quite a spell now. You wont believe your eyes laughter the spell is cast. Now halloween time is more spooktacular than ever because its in disneyland and disney california Adventure Parks okay. Weve all seen this video, cars flooded by recent hurricanes harvey and irma. Now there is another problem likely to surface. Abcs david kerley explains how car owners or dealers may try to cash in on the crisis. In this mornings gma first look, irmas florida flood didnt spare cars. This morning the owner of kelly blue book is estimating that between 200 and 400,000 cars in florida may have been flooded and thats on top of harveys soaking of houston. Is this unprecedented the number of cars . This could be an unprecedented year for the number of flood cars that are damaged as well as could be cleaned up and put back on the roads. Some owners who may not be insured may try to hide thats happened to their cars, customers hoping to trade in a flooded vehicle. Flooded cars can look great, run perfectly for the short term but the longterm and probably sooner than later those cars will break down because theyre literally rotting from the inside out. We will tell you exactly how to spot one of these cars before you buy it coming up at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look im david kerley, abc news, washington. Now a live desk update from abc 7 mornings. New from our live desk this morning residents beginning to return to south florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma. New video here coming in of people at a checkpoint in florida city just south of miami. Authorities are allowing some residents to return home to survey damage left behind. High winds and storm surges destroyed homes and left millions without power. Several major airports in florida that stopped passenger operations due to irma will begin some limited Service Starting today. It is 5 16. You are about to see a Small Plane Crash caught on camera in connecticut. We want to let you know that the pilot only suffered minor injuries, he is expected to be okay. A witness captured the video of the cessna yesterday morning short therefore after it clipped the top of several trees, flips and crashes there. The pilot is an 81yearold man, he was rushed to a nearby hospital. No word on why he came in so low. There was a small fuel leak in the parking lot where he crashed, no one else was hurt. Developing news this morning involving senator cruz and not for anything good. He or whoever had access to his twitter account liked a porn video late last night, it was a 2 20 clip from reality kings. According to Huffington Post cruzs office has not yet responded to a request for comment. The like disappeared early this morning. Hillary clintons book comes out today, it is titled what happened and it provides her perspective on last year election and why she lost. Clinton will speak at opera plaza on october 6th and visit uc davis a few days later. She is also expected to appear on the view starting tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. The new it movie is bigger than what we first thought. Initially it was reported that the movie raked in 117 million during its weekend debut last weekend. It turns out it made 123 million. So that is the third best debut of the year behind beauty and the beast and yardians of the galaxy volume 2. Keep in mind it raked in all of that money from 175 florida theaters that were closed due to Hurricane Irma. A lot of people i know talk about this film. Have you seen it . Have not seen it. Surprised that it did so well. Im not a fan of scary movies, either. Lets get over to meteorologist mike nicco. No scary weather i hope, mike. No not at all. Does thunder scare you, lightning . Just my dog. Thats usual. Its more the pressure i think that affects the dogs, when thunderstorms come in the pressure drops and that affects their ears and then they get a little it hurts them so they get a little wild. Here is a look at walnut creek just to your South Danville had. 01 of an inch and that was it for our east bay networks. Did get to see some of the lightning show not like the peninsula and north bay. More sun today, that will help reenergize the atmosphere thats kind of stable right now. That will allow storms to develop with our best chance of thunder during the overnight hours through tomorrow morning and cool to seasonal highs will hope. We have the area of low pressure formerly of irma and our area of low pressure and thats pretty much the only two games across the entire lower 48. Tuesday morning pretty quiet, you will notice more sunshine today, storms will develop in the sierra during the afternoon hours, you will probably be able to see the tops of those thunderstorms staeshl if you are up in some of the hills there and can look that farther distance. You saw a few showers around 5 00 but really 11 30 on through tomorrows morning commute you can see the expansion of the chance of thunderstorms as it moves through there. All the way through the morning commute at 9 00 and then it starts to taper down to just an isolated chance by noon and then that chance really starts to fall apart as we head into wednesday evening as the area of low pressure responsible for this moves off to the east. So lets talk temperatures. Mid 80s down in the south bay today as you head up the peninsula we will have upper 70s to mid 80s, mid 70s along the coast and downtown San Francisco. Up in the north bay low to mid 80s, along the east bay shore upper 70s to mid 80s. Inland temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s. Away from our inland neighborhoods most of us a little bit warmer than we should be. Tomorrow a final chance and you can see cooler and the humidity escapes us on thursday, temperatures return back to average friday and hang that way trough the weekend. Lets find out about maybe an average commute this morning. So far it really is looking that way. We havent had any major issues, just one new pretty minor just one new pretty minor trouble spot bridge, there are bins blocking several lanes. So chp is in route. Use caution through that area. San jose 101 and 880 slowly starting to fill in. The northbound side, traffic coming towards us there, but no major problems in the south bay and a quieter morning. Yesterday we had those wind gusts and a lot of dark intersections as well. Today we are not seeing that. Southbound 101 santa rosa to petaluma 14 minutes. 580 at 14 and northbound 101 you are also wide open at 12 minutes. We are okay with the quiet, right, alexis . Happening today federal investigators are meeting to determine the likely cause of a crash that killed a tesla driver last year. Joshua brown was using the cars autopilot feature when his model s plowed into a truck in florida in may of 2016 and you are looking at video here that brown posted on social media after buying his tesla. The ntsb will talk about the crash today. The meeting comes on the same day the nations transportation secretary is scheduled to unveil safety guidelines for automobiles trying to market self driving cars. Happening today in the north bay officials will unveil a Pilot Program to get more people aboard the smart train by offering a discount. Transportation authority is partnering up with lyft and whistle stop to help people get to and from the smart train. It is called get smart 17. Lyft riders can sign up through the app and whistle stop users you need to call and mention get smart when you book a ride. The Berkeley City Council will discuss reforming the Police Review commission. According to the daily californian Council Members want to improve use of force reporting policies and give the commission full access to city records. Citizens would need to vote on the issue next year. The center for policing equality advised the council to make those improvements after black lives matter protests in 2014. Berkeley police were accused of using Excessive Force to control protesters. A similar situation in Santa Clara County. They will consider plans to establish a civilian oversight board. Next the seven things you need to know as you start your day including one of the cutest thing that you will see this morning, we will introduce you to the San Diego Zoos newest edition. Banning cell phones on crosswalk, the new effort being launched today in one peninsula city. And women going topless in one east bay city in it could happen. The move today that could help make that a reality. 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Youll be wod try new light fit wi zero artificial sweeteners. It is 5 25. Whether you are joining us or heading out the door here are the seven things to know before you go. Number one, a spectacular show in the sky, thunder and lightning struck the bay area overnight, about 1,800 pg e customers are still without power after the storm this morning. Here is a look at some of the totals, they were pretty impressive from. 2 of an inch in sfo, downtown San Francisco, oakland, San Francisco measurable wet weather. All signs point to doing it again tonight. Number three, residents in the florida keys starting to head home today after Hurricane Irma hit. At least 11 deaths in the u. S. Are claimed on irma. More than 6 million customers are still without power today. Number four, president trumps panel on voter fraud holds its second meeting today. The president set up the commission to study allegations of voter fraud in last years ease election. We are off to a great start on the roads this morning, i havent gotten official word that the bay bridge metering lights are on but it looks like it. Just about 9 minutes into San Francisco. San francisco will rename sharon meadow and Golden Gate Park to Robin Williams meadow. He will be celebrated at this years comedy festival on sunday. Number 7, its the day every year apple fans wait for, today apple is expected to reveal its nextg generation iphone. Its the first event apple will hold inside of its new steve jobs auditorium, the event starts at 10 00 this morning. Two little tigers from different families will grow up together as brothers. One of the animals a Sumatran Tiger cub was flown from washington to San Diego Zoo yesterday. The baby tiger was rejected by his mom and now calls san diego home. The other tiger was confiscated by u. S. Customs and Border Protection officers. Both animals come from different places, they now have each other to play with and grow up with. The video provided by the video shows the baby tigers playing after being fed and its probably the cutest thing you will see all day. They are adorable. Im glad they found one another. Coming back including the deal that moves california a step closer to declaring itself a sanctuary state. A sanctuary state. The elected official tim charlie, 4th graders. A sanctuary state. The elected official lazy 3rd graders. They even have those new easy open gogurt tubes. We used to struggle 20 minutes to open our gogurts. We were on our own. And when we finally got those things open, wed be overcome with the sense of accomplishment no 3rd grader today will ever know. Hi guys. Get a job. You believe this guy . New ez open gogurt. Kids never had it so easy. [fbi agent] youre a brave man, your testimony will save lives. Mr. Stevens . This is your new name. This is your new house. And a perfectly inconspicuous suv. You must become invisible. [hero] ill take my chances. Good morning, south bay. Lets get up and get going. This is abc 7 mornings. Good morning to you. Thank you for waking up with us. Coming up on 5 30 on tuesday, september 12th. Reggie aqui is off so im filling off in his shoes. Not quite as big of heat. He wears high heels . I knew mike would have a comment on that, thats why i said it. You set me up and i took the bait. Yep. All right. So lets talk about how im jealous of you this morning because you were up last night during the big storms and got to see all that lightning and hear all the thunder and were going to do it again tonight. Right now its pretty quiet on live doppler 7 and will be for most of today. Lets take a look from the east bay hills and show you the 12hour day planner. A little cooler this morning, temperatures in the low to mid 60s, possibly around 67 inland, mid to upper 70s around the bay at noon to 82 inland. Then 68 a little bit of a sea breeze at the coast at 4 00 the rest of us in the low to mid 80s. I think the storms will get a later start today, a few of them around 7 00 but a lot more of them during the overnight hours. We will take a look at that timetable coming up here in a few minutes. Here is alexis with your morning commute. What a difference from yesterday. We will all kinds of traffic issues at this time 24 hours ago today, none. So we are going to enjoy it while it were nice and light right now. Our bridge drive times are looking great, westbound 580 just 7 minutes. 13 across san matteo and dumb barton bridge great choice as well. We will talk about mass transit coming up next. The pavement was wet this morning, hopefully thats dried up, but thunder, lightning even rain kept a lot of us up last night. For a worker at sfo it was a lot more serious than just some interrupted sleep. Abc 7 News ReporterAmy Hollyfield live at the airport with his scary experience. Reporter good morning. One worker was towing a plane from the Maintenance Area to the terminal when he thought maybe he was struck by lightning. Pair led iks responded he said he heard ringing in his ears. They couldnt find any evidence that he had been struck. He is okay but some airlines did pull their ramp employees inside just in case. Here is a collection of the video that we took last night of the impressive light show that Mother Nature put on. We have lightning strikes from all around the bay area all the way from San Francisco to san jose. Our emeryville camera in the east bay caught some strikes. The lightning was impressive, so was the thunder and also the rain, all of it unusual for this area and this time of year. Cal fire santa clara unit said it did respond to several spot fires from the lightning, they were small and they got them out quickly. You let it smolder it can grow exponentially. In a short amount of time or it could possibly smolder all day or all night before it finally takes off. Reporter the lightning did knock out power across the region. Look at these latest numbers from pg e just in this morning, the peninsula still has the most customers without power at 565. San francisco right behind them with 541, a total of customers without power so no lights inside this morning but an impressive light showout side last night. Live at sfo, Amy Hollyfield. It was a long night for giants fans after two weather delays. Their series opener against the dodgers at at t park ended around 2 11 this morning. The first pitch was delayed 42 minutes because of the lightning storm, it started before the scheduled start time. The second delay lasted nearly three hours with a game resuming just before 11 00 at night. In the end, though, it worked out, the giants beat l. A. 86. And a lot of people were outside not only watching baseball they were watching all that lightning. A man in alameda says he actually saw the moment a lightning bolt hit. A lot of unusual thunder, i have never heard anything like that before. Actually it was right over here. It was iridescent with all these cool different colors. It wasnt your stereotypical white lightning bolt. It was actually really cool. And so many of you showing your videos and photos online. I want to thank carlos and all of our viewers for shaving their incredible social media posts of the lightning across the bay area. Remember, you should always stay safe when taking those. Check out all of our lightning images, go to our website abc7news. Com. Happening today the santa clara board of supervisors will consider providing thousands of dollars to help daca recipients. They will discuss allocating 200,000 for a emergency daca problem program. It would help with applications and training. Daca protects hundreds of thousands of young people brought her illegally from deportation. Santa clara county is home to 24,000 daca recipients. After weeks of negotiations california sanctuary state bill is headed to the a bleem for approval. Chaings were made to the bill after Governor Brown said he would not sign previous versions of it. The bill would give federal immigration agents access to Law Enforcement databases it would also allow local police to hold someone for federal authorities if they have been convicted of a serious or violent crime. The Santa Clara County board of supervisors will take a moment to honor a member of the abc 7 news family who recently passed away. Clyde powell died unexpectedly in his sleep last month. He covered news in the bay area for nearly four decades. He focused mostly in the south bare. Cl county supervisors will adjourn their meeting today in his memory. Happening today a san matteo county supervisor will launch an effort to make crossing a street while looking down at your phone a crime. They say distracted driving a already illegal. Only the state can governing whats legal on california roads to can pa wants the board to back a resolution asking state lawmakers to consider a pedestrian ban. Today berkeley city leaders will consider and and ordinance that would allow women could go topless in public. The proposed change applies only to public streets and private businesses could still refuse service to anyone not wearing shirts or shoes. San jose police need your help to find the suspects who robbed an elderly woman last month. We have Surveillance Video captured on august 31st. It was the robbery that happened at a parking lot on story road. Police say the suspect approached the woman and ripped her purse from her after a violent struggle. The suspect got into a dark colored fourdoor nissan. The victim had minor injuries but is okay. Anyone with information is asked to call san jose police. And this Bank Robbery Suspect and her partner behind bars this morning. Sonoma police are thanking the public. They say alert citizens helped track down katrina hockney and miguel maravia. They were wanted for a previous robbery attempt in napa. Witnesses saw their van and alerted police who then arrested the duo. Developing news this morning, today utility crews are spread out all across the entire state of florida working to restore electricity to customers impacted by Hurricane Irma. Nearly 7 million homes and businesses in five different states are without power today after the storm rammed the keys and south florida before then heading north. Abcs Stephanie Ramos is live in miami with the very latest. Good morning, stephanie. Reporter jessica, good morning. You know, miami really avoided the worst of Hurricane Irma but there are still areas lit erred by downed trees, some streets covered in mud because of all the flooding. These storm surges that we saw really affected florida from coast to coast. Hurricane irma weakening to a Tropical Storm but not before zeroing in on another target, jacksonville, florida. There is record setting flooding in jacksonville, Business Owner adam schafer returning to his office to find it under jacksonville is a beautiful place and were about umd to see this happen. Reporter from north florida to the south, irma first making landfall in the keys as a category 4 hurricane and it was relentless. Were now getting a damage from the air. Boats grounded, cars buried, homes are destroyed. You know, you come home and you see this, its devastating. My heart goes out to the people in the keys. I mean, theres devastation. Reporter the raging storm blasting rain in orlando, devastating marco island. We have no electric, we have no water on the island so we are encouraging people if you dont have to come back right now, dont. Reporter today millions of people across florida are without power as utility crews work nonstop to get the state up and running again. I dont see the power coming on anytime soon with all the flooding. Reporter irma got to almost every inch of the state, but many floridians say they feel lucky that they avoided epic flooding especially here in south florida. Reporting live in miami, Stephanie Ramos, abc 7 mornings. Mike, back over to you. Stephanie, thank you very much. I cant wait to see what story she comes up with about other items from the hurricane over the next couple days. Look at how wide the footprint is from the lower Mississippi River valley to the ohio river valley to the outer banks of North Carolina near wilmington where some of the stronger storms are right now. There are absolutely no flood watches with this anymore because the rain is so light. There is a few lake wind advisories around tennessee and thats it. That means gusts to 25 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Not expecting any damage or any more flooding. There are a few thunderstorms that are going to develop over the florida peninsula but they will be widespread. The center of the below can you believe how far south it is, over columbus, georgia right now. 35 mile per hour winds, look how quickly it goes to the north of birmingham towards hunt vil and curves up towards kentucky and falls apart right there by tomorrow. Probably heard the last of irma for a forever. We will still be dealing with the lingering effects. 10 degrees cooler this morning. Up in the north bay we should be in the 40s and 50s, we are in the 60s, low to upper 60s. Most of us in the mid to upper 60s. A couple 70s like in fairfield and brentwood and tracy and down in san jose. A look at the western span of the bay bridge looks pretty dry right now, in fact, we will have a few damp spots out there but no more rain for the morning and for the most part the evening commute. Mass transit mild to warm and light breezes if you are going to be on the bay. Temperatures today pulling back a little bit. Those 80s in our inland neighborhoods and mainly mid 70s to a few mid 80s around the bay and mid 70s at the coast. Still sticky out there. So we have at least one more round of showers and thunderstorms give you a timetable for that coming up next and we will take a look at the weekend forecast. Never too late for that. We definitely are starting to ramp up here especially out of tracy. I know i hate to even tell you this but we have reports of a disabled van sitting in the far right lane westbound 580 just past Mountain House parkway. That was a brutal commute out of tracy yesterday, today we are down to 11 miles an hour on 580 and 205. Part of that was building anyway and that van is not helping out. Trying to get a tow truck to the scene. A quick check of the bay bridge toll plaza we did ghetto initial word that those metering lights were flipped on about 21 minutes ago, so that is starting to fill in through the maze there. 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What youre seeing is a different story, this is former military base in the santa cruz mountains, it will soon open as a public park, what youre looking at a mt. Um numb, offers stunning views and it opens to the public next monday. The owner spent 23 million to renovate the summit. Visiting the park is free. The unusual Court Case Involving a monkey and his selfie is finally over. It is a case that broke legal ground. Peta claimed that this monkey owned the rights to the photos that he snapped from a photographs camera and now legal precedent will agree. A agreement between peta, the photographer and a San FranciscoPublishing Company means 25 of future revenue from the photo will go to organizations dedicated to protecting the tab at that time and species. This was a Ground Breaking case that firmly establishes that Animal Rights are ingrained in the legal system here in the u. S. And internationally. Peta hopes the money will go to long way in helps the species which is considered critically endangered. Ive seen that selfie so many times it makes me chuckle. Lets get over to meteorologist mike nicco. We had the lightning and thunderstorms last night and possibly more to come tonight. I think it will start a little later tonight. The pipeline is a little dry right now, but we will get it moist enough for another round. We will take a look at just when coming up in just a second. First lets talk about whats going on with our roof cam. The flags on the Ferry Building not really all that breezy this morning. We will call it partly cloudy today, a little more sunshine, a few isolated storms tomorrow afternoon. Fall to seasonal highs on the way. Here is a look at that area of low pressure spinning down to our south and notice the pipeline. What i mean is look down around l. A. In the high desert, remember i was tracking those storms yesterday and saying what was what was coming our way. Notice you dont see them right now. Its going to come in a little later today than yesterday. Here we are at 7 00 in the morning. As we head all the way up until lunch, through lunch and into the evening commute an isolated thunderstorm possible. The greatest chance of thunderstorms during the day today will be in the sierra. Now, watch what happens tonight around midnight a little appetizer and then friends join in and look at all that wet weather possible at 4 30 tomorrow morning all the way through about 9 00. It starts to taper to scattered. Then it becomes isolated by noon and it remains very isolated during the evening hours. As we look at my accuweather sevenday forecast by thursday an area of low pressure dropping down from alaska will push all that out, bring us a quick touch of fall with 60s and 70s and much dryer air and then seasonal temperatures will return for friday, saturday, sunday, monday. That means 60s at the coast, 70s around the bay and 80s inland. Maybe you and i will be able to see some of those lightnig bolts and hear some of that thunder tomorrow morning. I know. I was thinking maybe we will have a soggy commute at least in some areas. It hasnt rained in a long time. That can make things messy tomorrow. Good thing youre here. We will have to wait and see how that turns out. We do have one new issue in vallejo. Westbound 80 we do have new report of a crash we dont have many details yet but this is just before georgia street before that 780 interchange. We have several vehicles involved, chp and an ambulance dis watched to the scene. We have to have at least one lane blocked there. A quick check outside a live look at the san matteo bridge ended up being a tough commute yesterday, today not so much. We are cruising there. Leaving hayward a towards foster city we dont have any delays. We are slowest bound 580 tracy to dublin up to 1 hour 3 minutes that is in the red all due to a disabled vehicle. 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The study next. Plus shopping in a store plus shopping in a store with no clothing in it. Be a powerful force. Nature valley now to a candid interview with sin made oconnor. She sat down with dr. Phil to talk about her struggle with mental illness. She says she is determined to change the Stigma Around Mental Health issues. Last month the 50yearold addressed her own desperation in this video posted on facebook. Shows the singer crying in a motel room in new jersey saying she needed help. Oconnor is appearing on dr. Phil for her first tv interview since this incident. Who are the people that wont take care of you . Are you talk being your family . Yeah, i love my family and i dont blame them. Its not easy for families of mentally ill people. We can be difficult. I thought it would be better if my family saw how i was feeling they would relate to it. She want to destigmatize Mental Health in society. Dr. Phil claims the show has actually been paying for her care at a facility in nashville. I hope shes okay. San francisco is the backdrop for a new action film being shot this week. Sky 7 was over lombard and high streets. San Francisco Police are warning intermittent road closures, several bystanders tell us this movie is ant man 2. The filming today is in the knob hill area. This map shows you the streets that will be closed off near the broadway tunnel, 7 00 a. M. Until maybe 10 00 p. M. Neighbors are being warned they could hear simulated gunfire and explosions as well as that closed off area. I wonder if they needed thunderstorms in the background. What are they going to do about that. Hi, everybody. Dodgers and giants once again tonight. 67 at 7 15 dropping down to 63, less of a chance of a thunderstorm delay because they will come in later tonight. You can see them tomorrow morning 59 santa rosa, 61 to 67 for the rest of us, storm impact scale, sure, why not. We have a chance of showers, lightning, brief downpours and gusty winds tonight through tomorrow morning. That makes it a 1. We have two slow spots on the roads, the first one in vallejo, with he did get a few more details. We do still have disabled vehicle westbound 580 near grant line road that is blocking the right lane and a tow truck on the way to the scene. We do have a collision in vallejo as well, westbound 580 before georgia street blocking the far left lane. Next traffic update coming up at 6 00. Going to stand for the next story, lets roll the video. Researchers followed a group of 8,000 people older than 45 for an average of four years and the results show that sitting for long periods of time and they are talking like an hour to 90 consecutive minutes can lead to an earlier death and it did not matter how much the person exercised to offset that. The study also accounts for multiple variables like age, race and sex. I know, jeff, we are just we are going to do a whole show like this from now on. Super comfortable. Speaking of shoes, your Shopping Experience at nordstrom could soon be very different. I like to go through the racks, i like to see the clothes that im buying. You have to touch it and feel it. In california the first nordstrom Concept Store will open up and it doesnt have anything inside, doesnt have any clothing. Instead you shop online inside the store then you pick up your online orders there as well. The store is named nordstrom local. The first one will open in West Hollywood in three weeks and here is what they offer you instead of clothes, they have personal stylists, tailors, manicurists and a beverage service. It will be smaller than the typical Nordstrom Department stores which are gigantic. Instead of Online Shopping at home you go there and online shop. With the help of a stylist, though. Okay. Nasa releasing images showing before and after of damage done by irma and it is just stunning. New developments involving a vendor that went viral after an incident with uc berkeley place. What a congressman is saying after Eric Swalwell is rather after Eric Swalwell is rather eric this is abc 7 mornings. What a show in the sky. Did you see this . Hundreds of lightning strikes led to some stunning footage. And as incredible as it was also led to issues around the bay area. Your chance at another show may happen very soon. Coming to you at a theater near you. Thats right. No theater necessary, just have to look up in the sky. Good morning, welcome. It is tuesday, september 12th. Reggie off today, jess sitting with me at the desk. Mike, just a few more hours to wait and we could see it all again. Very hard to go to bed last night with all of that happening. Thank you to everybody sending me pictures and