Overcrossing at the tolls right now. Some usual slow and go traffic on westbound 580 from tracy to dublin, 33 minutes. Elsewhere, pretty quiet. A nice drive through the dublin grade to mission boulevard in fremont. Northbound 85 looking great from highway 101 to cupertino in the sbai. We have new details this morning on changes sfmta is making after that deadly crash on taylor and ofarrell streets in San Francisco. Sfmta met with Community Leaders in the tenderloin to discuss Traffic Safety concerns. Three weeks before the crash, sfmta reduced Taylor Street from three lanes to two and added white buffer zones. There are also plans to widen the crosswalks. One neighbor suggested changing the timing on the lights. Reisdey. Ard it is to walk in a crosswalk, by the time you get to the middle, its already red. Thats not right. Sundays crash killed benjamin dean, and his wife kelly is still in serious condition. The driver Kelsey Cambridge was arrested. For more on this story, you can go to abc7news. Com or the abc 7 news app. It is free to download. A 26yearold man is in Police Custody after Authorities Say he went on a 12hour killing spree fatally shooting four people and hurting two others across l. A. The lapd says gerry zaragosa unleashed terror yesterday. According to investigators he first attacked his father, brother and mother. The two men were found dead at the familys home. The mother survived. Zaragosa is accused of killing a female acquaintance and hurting her friend at a North Hollywood gas station. He then turned his attention to an l. A. Metro bus and shot and killed a random passenger. I was on the bus. I got on the bus at van nuys. I actually saw the guy who was shot get on the bus with me. He dragosas cell phone and found him about 12 hours after the first shooting. This morning the lapd is trying to determine a motive for those killings. A murder suspect wanted for a Fatal Shooting at a Concord Hotel six im sorry earlier this month has been arrested in south dakota. The u. S. Marshal service picked up 32yearold adam renfro. He and 40yearold robert brown are suspected of the shooting at the clayton motel. Brown is still on the loose. According to the east bay times, Concord Police are trying to extradite him back to california. Developing news out of washington, republicans have blocked aggressive legislation to protect american elections. Special counsel rer confirmed russian interference in his report and in wednesdays testimony. He warned it would happen again, even saying it could become a new norm. Republican leader Mitch Mcdonnell blocked the legislation calling it partisan. A highly partisan bill from the same folks who spent two years hyping up a Conspiracy Theory about President Trump and russia. Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the interference a wakeup call to every american, that the integrity of our elections is at stake. We are switching gears. Get ready for the garlic bread, garlic food, garlic ice cream. Its early in the morning, but it is time for the gilroy garlic festival. Theres big names appearing. Colbie caillat who is lovely, but also a real housewife . Abc News Reporter anser hassan live in gilroy. Reporter good morning, guys. Theyve been cooking here for about an lour. The smell of food is in the air. Ifpyro chefs here, cooking garlic and calamari which has become the official food the f garlic. Two tons of garlic has been donated for this years festival. They have everything from garlic tofu, garlic frog leg, even garlic ice cream. New this year, the garlic gilroy festival signature cocktail which is a whiskey daisy. Ashley schaffner who you saw a few minutes ago grew up with the festival. Her dad is one of the original pyro chefs, cooking since 1978 when this all started. Now shes one of the only female pyro cooks at the festival. Its very hot back there. Again, its so much fun to be back there. All this goes to charity which is the best past. We all donate our time. It all goes back into the community. Its also that bu a co of not just my personal oerch epr hats ashley and her dad cooking right now. Gilroy is one of the largest producers of garlic in the world. This is the 41st year theyre doing this. If youre planning on coming out, note they have new hours. They open every day at 10 00. Tonight they go until about 7 00. Anser hassan, abc 7. We didnt mention that theresa jude dies will be there. A bad crush in San Francisco splits a car in half. And now were learning wild new details about what happened when Police Arrived at that scene. Enjoy todays mild temperatures, especially in the east bay valleys and up in the hills as waking up in the east bay, temperatures 59 to 61. Antioch 65. Definitely a lot different than yesterday morning. Mid to upper 50s just about everywhere. Few 60s oakland, Mountain View, san jose. A look at santa cruz, doesnt that look inviting. Gray at the coast. Stronger sunshine if youre at the pool. For our bay play, Small Craft Advisory north of the bay bridge through the delta 2 00 to 9 00. Peninsula, cloudy conditions through 9 00 and 60s. Upper 70s for the afternoon hours. In the south bay we have a few clouds lingering through 9 00. Look at that jump into the mid to upper 80s during the afternoon hours. In the east bay valleys even warmer. Few clouds this morning, 65. Near 90 this afternoon. Thats going to feel great compared to this weekend. Well talk about that coming up. First, how about the commute, frances . Things will heat up this weekend but right now, Cool Conditions at the road. Here is a live shot at the bay bridge toll plaza. There was debris past the metering lights. They cleared it quickly. Right now its only backed up towards the 880 overcrossing. Southbound 680 in walnut creek looks good. An earlier stall reported near geary and treat, but not causing a delay as you make your way towards highway 24. As we check out the drive time, southbound 680 walnut creek to dublin, green at 14 minutes. The ride from santa rosa to San Francisco, thats also green at 51 minutes, and no problems on highway 17 northbound from highway 1 to los gatos. New details about a violent crash ifranciscos bayview district. We first told you about this yeed on abc 7 mornings. Police say the driver of the car slammed into a fire hydrant and took off before Police Arrived on the scene at third street and carroll avenue. It happened just after 1 00 yesterday morning. Authorities say the passengers did not cooperate with officers investigating the crash. Three girls ages 11, 14 and 17 and a 19yearold man were injured. One suffered broken bones. The other injuries were minor. All are expected to survive. An emerging trend in the housing crisis. What San Franciscos Planning Department has started noticing. Edible amazon box. If you or someone you know loves welcome back. As people in the bay area are struggling with the housing crisis, San Francisco Housing Department is warning of an emerging trend. Corporate rentless. According to the examiner, the practice is legal. The units are advertised for limited stays of 30 days or more and theyre not subject to citys shortterm rental regulations, but it takes muchneeded housing off the rental market. Taysre o average xons to a year long. Abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. One of the biggest issues weve been covering, b. A. R. T. The agency tapped rob powers as the new general manager yesterday. Theres been a lot lately about safety, homelessness, fare evasion. Where does that play in . Thats the priority. Were going to focus on our customers and follow through on the quality of life initiatives that we have under way. Powers says hes also committed to getting his Transit Police force to full staffing. The agency is looking for elevator attendants in the embarcadero in San Francisco to prevent people from using those spaces for drugs or to go to the restroom. Abc 7 devoted a week to covering b. A. R. T. We rode trains all day long, visited every station. We talked to riders and to people in charge of improving b. A. R. T. You can find those stories on our website, abc7news. Com. Four of the worlds Biggest Car Companies have cut a deal with california promising to adhere to a set of strict emission standards. Ford, honda, bmw and volkswagen have all agreed to fuel economy standards of 50 miles per gallon for new cars by 2026. That agreement is a rejection of the trump administrations plan to roll back federal vehicle emission standards to 27 miles per gallon by 2020. Republicans and Energy Companies calling this a agreement a political move. The cofounder of San Francisco ecigarette maker juul faced tough questions on capitol hill. James monsee says yesterday juul was developed for adult smokers who want to stop smoking. He says the products were not intended for underage teenagers. An east bay congressman says that monsees is, quote, an example of the worst of the bay area. A North Carolina man had an idea for his wifes birthday. He decided to surprise his amazonloving wife with one of her favorite things, a package. It looked like a package, but actually a cake. Thats good work there. He had it decorated like an amazon delivery box. He said it made his wife emily laugh so they posted the picture on facebook and its since gone viral. Props for inventiveness. Love it. That guy must watch as many cooking shows as i watch. The great bit tisch bakeoff or whatever that is. Im sure you and barbara are into that. A lot of fondant. Its mostly fondant. It tastes bad, right . I dont think it tastes the best but it looks amazing. My wife makes a marshmallowbased fondant which is much better. Bring it in. Not right now, shes watching our son. Maybe later. Better not be baking this weekend, not when its 100 outside. I think well be going out for dinner this weekend. Nobody wants to cook when its 100. Ee our alk about today. Temper milder. Excessive heat this weekend. We have a threat of thunderstorms in the high country once again. The threat didnt back its way towards us thankfully overnight. The High Pressure gave up ground to this low pressure. This slow is whats going to keep us a little milder today. The High Pressure exerts itself, fexes this weekend and umps us up and brings us a lot warmer weather than were dealing with today which is barely 90s in gilroy and morgan hill. Everybody else pretty much in the mid to upper 80s in the south bay. In the peninsula we start in the low 80s and end up in the mid 70s by the time you get to millbrae. Mid 60s along the coast with less sunshine today. Upper 60s in downtown. Low 70s south San Francisco and sausalito. 80s through most of the north bay, 90s cloverdale and northward. Upper 60s along the coast. Along the east bay shore, 80s from hercules, orinda, fremont. Low to upper 90s in the east bay valleys. Look at the wilting weather saturday and sunday. Even 70s reaching the coast. We will be returning back to average monday and a delightful week ahead next week. Frances . A new crash in oakland on the fruitvale onramp to northbound 880. It looks like its off to the shoulder. For mass transit, b. A. R. T. Reporting no delays. Ace train 1 is running about 15 minutes late. Train 3 still on time. Live shot of the san mateo bridge shows traffic on the westbound side looking good. East bay traffic has been light as well all morning. Here are drive times for all the bridges heading westbound, except for the bay bridge. Across the richmondsan rafael bridge, nine min uchlts across the san mateo bridge, 14 minutes. The dumbarton bridge nine minutes. Here is a live shot of 101 in san jose. Looks like its frozen right there. There we go. Right now traffic is pretty good. Expect heavy traffic on 101 as you make your way to the gilroy garlic festival later this weekend. It gets jammed morgan hill to gilroy. Lots of green out there. An overturn crash in calistoga, northbound 29 past tubbs lane. Injuries possible. Traffic is slowing at the scene. Good morning america coming up at 7 00 on abc 7. Skbriginger zee has a look a whats ahead. Good morning. Great to be with both of you this morning. Coming up on friday on gma, were tracking the major heat. This time including all of you. Hundreds of wildfires raging from the west through alaska and the triple digit temperatures moving in. Also a hot car close call. The dramatic rescue caught on body cam. Two Young Children accidentally locked in the vehicle and the moment the officer finally breaks them out. Plus a summer skin alert. The new study about skin cancer and your family history. Ho t weavgy whitneybowe to discuss it all. Our instant pot cookoff. We have two experts that will face off with great recipes you can try right now. They asked all of us if we had any instant pot fails. Ive had about a dozen. Thats all coming up right here on gma. Theyve got Lady Antebellum on today for the concert series. Thats a big one for me. Its one to watch. The new name joining the effort to break up after qualifying purchases when you apply and are approved for the Hawaiian Airlines world elite mastercard. 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President ial candidate Bernie Sanders took time out of Fundraising Efforts in los angeles to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live . He spoke about the need for universal health care and holing corporations accountable. Weve got to ask ourselves why is it that were the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people. Why over 80 Million People are uninsured or underinsured. The answer is, it gets back to the power and the grd major muinional cooriowho couldb working i owhis is nissue we talk about much, but its an issue as a nation were going to phave to deal with. Kimmel called for Health Care Reform after his son was diagnosed with a heart condition that required surgery. Sanders also spoke about Climate Change and election interference. A big name behind efforts on capitol hill to break up facebook. It is chris hughes, one of facebooks cofounders. According to the Washington Post hes been visiting lawmakers, regulators and the federal trade commission urging them to act on what he calls the facebook monopoly, asking regulators to break up the social snet wrork network he helped create drawing on antitrust laws. He cashed out his nearly 500 million in Facebook Stock when he left in 2007. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe signed a book deal. Rapinoe became a bigger celebrity after helping lead the u. S. Womens team to the world cup title this sum never. Drake teaming up with sirius xm and pandora. The two companies that merged earlier this year signed a creative deal with the superstar. It includes a dedicated station, curated music and collaborations with other artists. The rollout will start later this year. Coming up at 6 30, when experts predict the next recession will hit and why. Also reporter there has now been a Public Meeting about whats been going on at oaklands airport and it wasnt pretty. People are upset. Youll hear more coming up next. Also a runaway tire goes so that early retirement we planned. Its going ok . Great. Now im spending more time with the kids. Im introducing them to crab. Crab . They love it. So, you mentioned that that money we set aside. Yeah. The kids and i want to build our own crab shack. Ahhh, youre finally building that outdoor kitchen. Yup with room for the whole gang. See how investing with a j. P. Morgan advisor can help you. Visit your local chase branch. Now at 6 30, a new development in the controversy over i. C. E. Flights out of oakland. The people in charge of the airport say they didnt know this was going on. Doctors sounding the alarm after eighteen agers suffered the same serious problem, the one thing they had in common. Grab your phone and head to abc7news. Com vote. We want to know should halloween be changed to always happen on the last saturday of october. The new idea to change when the holiday happens and also little dopey. A little dopey and a little troll. I love halloween. I love halloween on the little ones. So cute. Good morning on this friday, july 26th. Were still a while away. Yes. I love that night. I love giving the kids candy because i want to see how theyre dressed. Adorable. Later at night the older teens come out. Theyre like, give me your candy. Everyone hides. Im like here is whats left. Well give you the crap. Sorry. If youre a teenager trickortreating, this is what you get. Lets talk about whats happening weatherwise. All right. Theres cloud cover. You can see its gray on live doppler 7. Maybe a liss little mist along the coast. Any time we can get the marine layer to top the east bay hills, you know it will cool everybody down just a little bit. No more 100s, barely 90s today. All that will change tomorrow. So enjoy today. Starting off cooler this morning, also mid 50s to low 60s. Its friday. Lets see whats going on with the commute. Hi, francis. Its been friday light out there. A few problems, well focus on the north bai this time. Youll find fog across the golden gate bridge. You can see it here in this live shot. Not too bad right now. Here is 101 in san rafael. As you make your way southbound, its been a quiet and easy ride as you make your wayrofreenerhe. Some of the usual sluggish spots for even a friday morning. Theres also a crash northbound 29 past tubbs lane. Its an overturned accident with possible injuries. Its been out there for a little time. You could see slowing at the scene. I also want to give a heads up for commuters. Caltrans will temporarily close the lower half of the Manzanita Park and ride lot in mill valley starting today. A high tide is expected to floods it for the next several days. So the lower lot wont reopen until a week from sunday. Frances, thank you. New developments at the Oakland Airport where we learned i. C. E. Was flying tens of thousands of detainees. Something the port commissioners say they didnt know. Abc 7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield live at the our port. Good morning, amy. Reporter good morning. There was outrage last night over what has been going on at this airport. People passionately spoke out last night at oaklands board of pofrt commissioners. Thats the board in charge of the airport. People wanted to know why the port would allow i. C. E. To fly detainees out of here, a sanctuary city. The port said it did not know it was happening and is investigating. Speakers last night said they want to make sure this doesnt happen again. We just want no use of our airport by i. C. E. Its an agency that is right now working on behalf of a government that is making public threats against the immigrant community. Reporter i. C. E. Released this statement saying i. C. E. Made an internal operational decision to discontinue the use of charter flights out of oakland in october of 2018. The agency does not share specific logistic details pertaining to detainee transfers. The big question is if these flights violated the citys sanctuary policy. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Developing news out of oakland. Firefighters are watching for flare dups this morning after a twoalarm fire started last night. You can see the flames in this video from the citizen app. The building appeared to be under construction. Fortunately no one was hurt. On the peninsula investigators looking for more victims of a man arrested on Sexual Assault charges involving young boy. 47yearold Randolph Haldeman is charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14. Police say the crimes date back to the 1980s. Haldeman is a former photographer for a Youth Swim Team in menlo park. Were hearing from the owner of the tesla involved in last weeks deadly crash in San Francisco. Albert kim was not driving the car at the time of the crash. He rented it out to 21yearold kelsey mariah cambridge. Kim says the cars data is corrupt in the five minutes prior to the cash. The dash cam footage he was able to see shows cambridge driving safely. Im surprised because she was very slowly driving and crossing market street, very casually and slowly. You could hardly believe that she would just accelerate just like that. Police say cambridge was speeding through a red light when the crash happened. She has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Meanwhile kim has turned over the cars thumb drive to police. They are trying to get dash cam footage from the moment of the crash. Weve been closely tracking this story on abc7news. Com. To receive the latest information as it happens, download the abc 7 news app and enable push alerts. Mta hired a dedicated project manager to address ongoing delays in the central subway project. Abc 7 got a tour of the construction happening in the tunnel thats 100 feet below ground level. The 1. 7 mile tunnel runs between stockton street and connects soma to union square in chinatown. The subway was scheduled to begin operations in deese of 2018. That date keeps getting pushed back. Mtas newest project manager has six weeks to come up with a time estimate on this 1. 6 billion project. The first priority, besides everything else, is to look and see how much time it will take to finish this job and start running the trains. Most delays have occurred in chinatown where workers are trying not to disturb businesses above ground. The new opening date for now is early next year. The central subway could extend beyond chinatown if theres enough interest. Today a survey gauging Public Interest on extension routes is closing. Sfmta has particular interest in an extension that goes to fishermans wafr. Doctors in milwaukee, wisconsin are sounding the alarm after eight teens have been hospitalized for lung damage. The one thing they have in common, they used ecigarettes. They suffered shortness of breath, fatigue, weight loss and chest pain. Physicians are not sure when and if those symptoms will subside. Its also known what the connection is between the eight cases. The warning comes after San Franciscobased juul was grilled on capitol hill. East bay lawmaker mark desonia did not mince words. Youre nothing but a marketer of a poison and your target has been young people. This is a serious problem. Our company has no higher priority than fighting it. Reporter juuls cofounder says its company has taken steps to reduce underage use including shutting down social media pages. Experts predict the next recession will begin next year. They say there are three likely triggers, trade policy, a stock Market Correction or geopolitical crisis. Economists who weighed in on the survey say Housing Demand will drop next year. But prices will keep rising. Distracted behind the wheel. A new study found which age group is most prone to taking their eyes off the road and the results may surprise you. 6 37. Youre looking live at the big board as trading begins. You can see we are slightly up this morning. Well get a check on the markets next. A live look at the gilroy garlic festival. Its hours before its set to open and theyre already grilling up that hot minced garlic. Depending on who you are, either thankdnsor you what to expect including a couple of big names, big talent they were able to draw. Thats true. Hot leg, mike. Thats what that tshirt said. I didnt see the tshirt. What did you call me . Sometimes my eye focuses on a particular thing and it went there. I think theyre doing garlic frog legs this year. I thought tina turner may be there. Hot legs . They got tina turner . Lets talk about whats going on weatherwise. 8 in gilroy today, about 100 tomorrow, 94 sunday. Have fun. You can see its definitely cooler. Many areas, up to nine degrees cooler in livermore. In the south bay a little cooler, upper 50s to low 60s. 62 in Mountain View is the warm spot. 60 in newark, 61 in brentwood. Were starting off a little milder this morning. With a little more cloud cover as we look from the san mateo bridge back towards the peninsula. So watch out for a little more fog. Transit this morning is cooler, but its still going to be warm to hot this afternoon if yradge brzy nor the bay bridge. Also got the Small Craft Advisory. For the north bay, cloudy conditions. Well, clouds and sunday through 9 00. Well jump up to about 80 this afternoon under total sunshine. The high clouds from yesterday are gone. Well have total sunshine in the east bay. Well hit the 70s around 11 00 and near 80 during the afternoon hours. Then from San Francisco, even though the high clouds are gone, the low clouds will be more cumbersome today keeping us in the low to mid 60s. Comfortable day today, not so much this weekend. Well talk about that coming up. First well want to talk about how comfortable or not the commute is. Here is frances. Its been comfortable this morning. Much better than yeerday. Rthbou. It involves a motorcycle but it looks like its off to the divt acen swi b yocas here is a live shot of the richmondsan rafael bridge heading towards the toll plaza. Traffic is slow approaching the tolls from castro. Its looking okay across the span. Also youll find a backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. Not bad, just backed up past the 880 overcrossing. Drive times looking goo air quality this weekend is good to moderate which is good for everybody. San joaquin valley, hot temperatures. Near 110 today. Heat advisory tomorrow through sunday. Same effect. Lets take a look at the 110 in palm springs. 80 in san diego, 88 in l. A. Mitting 72 in monterey. 64 with cloudy conditions in eureka. Thunderstorms, one last day for yosemite at 76. You can see leftover clouds from this mornings showers and decaying thunderstorms. Well be 77, a little cooler today but with sunshine. A little dryer air, mid 80s this weekend. Natasha. Take a look at this. New Jersey State Police are looking at where this runaway tire came from. It rolled down the highway in edison. It rolled down the median, bouncing to the other side of the car and slammed into a car. It first clipped a mothers car with her three children inside. Her husband was driving behind them in a jeep praying it wouldnt hit her and his children. Fortunately no one was hurt. The tire appears to have come from a dump truck. Whoa. Garlic, garlic and hopefully breath mints. The 2019 gilroy garlic festival opens in less than four hours. Tens of thousands of people are expected at this famous threeday event. Yes, the cooking has already begun as abc 7 News Reporter anser hassan can see and smell. Reporter good morning guys. Organizers here say every year they like to try something new. This year garlic frog legs. Im not going to try it, but i hear its good. Theyve been cooking for about an hour now. Behind me the chefs are warming things up with these flareups. This is where they cook garlic calamari and scampi, the signature dish of the festival. The main draw is the food and garlic. This year two tons of garlic was donated to be cooked. Where there is food there will be chefs, last years winner of the show master shared, jerron hurt is here. He says cooking at the gilroy garlic festival has been a bucket list for him. Its a staple. Goes good in everything. Like one of those aromatics, parsley, rosemary, lemon, that makes every dish better. Like paula deen loves butter, i love garlic. You one of the largest producers of garlic in the world. If youre planning on coming out, note there are new hours for this year. The festival starts at 10 00 a. M. And American Indian head dresses from this years Music Festival according to sf gate. The ban went into effect last year. Organizers told the gate out of respect for native american heritage. People have been wearing the head dresses to festivals like coachella. That has been widely criticized. Pg e and two other companies agreed on a deal for a wildfiree fund. Half comes from you, through a fee on your bill. The state had given the companies until today to agree to the fund. In the east bay home depot is denies reports they threatened to leave oakland because of homeless en camments near two of their stores. Yesterday attorneys met with mayor libby schaaf to come up with a solution. One recommendation, creating a safe rv parking lot where Homeless People can park across from one of the stores. Now youre going to move the problem across the street to high street, your entrance and exit. On the other side of high street there are businesses complaining as well. Home depot released a statement saying in part, we look forward to continuing to work with the city to implement a plan that is thoughtful and respectful. Your Morning Money report. Apple struck a 1 billion deal with intel to buy a majority stake in the smart phone modem business. About 2,200 intel workers will transfer to apple. Apple will get control of 17,000 Wireless Technology patents. The deal is expected to close later this year. Amazons profits are still increasing but not as fast as they used to. Second quarter profits were up 3. 5 to more than 2. 6 billion compared to a year ago. In the previous four quarters, amazon set a new record for growth each time. Team mobile is adding more subscribers, the companys Third Largest Wireless Company says it beat expectations adding ing in users. Taking a look at the new york stock exchange, were slightly up about 27 points. The most important question of the morning, should halloween always be the last saturday in october. Head to abc7news. Com vote to weigh in. It seems kind of random because were asking this at the end of july. Theres a new push happening now to change when we celebrate halloween. Thousands of people have signed a petition asking that halloween be moved to the last saturday in october instead of having it on a random tuesday. The petition was launched on change. Org by costume association. The group says halloween on saturday would make celebrating having it during the week. That kind of makes me think, shouldnt then all holidays be on saturdays, if were going to do halloween, right . Christmas should be on saturday then . No. We get christmas off usually. Halloween can fall any day of the week and we dont get the day off, especially for little kids. Its such a hard time, at least for me to get them to school the next morning. You would vote yes . I would be happy to make it a saturday, right. What about you, mike . The parties would be a lot better. Adult halloween is always on saturday. Exactly. That wont change. Just feeding the energy right here. Adult halloween and being on the same night as kid halloween thats not great. Dont make me choose. Youre you guys do you. And weigh in often. We appreciate that. Lets talk about weather. Nobody wants to be outside this weekend, at least not for extended period of time. Look at this. Nooer record to record heat. 95 to 108, those areas in the burning red. Thats the east bay valleys, eastbound hills and the diablo range. 11 00 throw morning through 11 00 sunday evening. That excessive heat watch will probably turn into a warning. Look at the east bay hills, 52 this morning. A couple things to look at, clouds have topped, the marine layer tall enough to reach the east bay valleys. Milder this morning and also milder this afternoon with more sunshine than yesterday. Dangerous heat this weekend. Cooler closer to average next week. A little bit of mist and drizzle along the coast with the thicker fog this morning. You can see a greater amount of cloud cover throughout the bay and also our coastal valleys leading into some of our novatos in t inland valleys in the northbound. We have a few 90s in places like morgan hill and gilroy. 76 in discuss. Santa cruz. A little smaller spread on the peninsula today. Mid 60s along the coast. Well have upper south San Francisco. Across the golden gate near 90 in santa rosa, mid to upper 90s. Warm spot is 82 in fremont. As you move in, low to upper 90s. My accuweather sevenday forecast. Look at those 100s, saturday and sunday. Even near 90 around the bay. 60s, 70s and 80s will feel great. A live shot of 101 in san jose past 880 shows things are more f moving fairly well. If you want to avoid that, you may want to consider highway 87 as an alternate. That 101 strech will be heavy heading to the gilroy garlic festival. An earlier accident on highway 29 in calistoga has been cleared. Normal slowing westbound 580, lighter than normal from tracy to dublin. It looks like westbound 4 got slow as well. Antioch to concord, 20 minutes. Distracted driving is a problem for drivers of all ages, but apparently especially bad for older americans. Aaa tracked drivers from 21 to 75. They found on average drivers between 55 and 75 took their eyes off the road about eight seconds longer than those between 21 and 36. Taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds can double your chances of getting into an accident. Part of building a better bay area involves having pride in your hometown. The sharks will be showing pride in a few way. The sharks are teaming up with others to make this massive freehand mural happen along the alameda in san jose. Australian artist nychos was commissioned for the job. The former bay area resident is internationally known for his anatomybased xray styled work. This is his first piece in san jose. But hes painted two murals in oakland. You realize youre not painting for yhe rest of the world. The funky fizzle, as i call it, will happen right at the end. The piece is titled bleed teal and will show the shark getting its power from the city of san jose while teal pumps through its veins. Nye shows plans to incorporate waves, water and the city skyline as he works on it this weekend a dragon space capsule is zeroing in on the International Space station this morning. Ignition and liftoff of the falcon nine rocket and the dragon spacecraft. Threatening clouds over Cape Canaveral did not stop the launch last night. The cap actual is carrying 5,500 pounds of experiments, supplies, a bio printer and slime. Nickelodeon is using the slime as part of a campaign to get kids interested in science, tech and engineering. The capsule will dock with the space station tomorrow. Three of californias most respected chefs are teaming up. Dominique crenn, nancy silver ton and traci des jardins. Vertically farmed hydroponic greens use far less land and water than traditional farms. Another perk t greens end up less bitter. The l. E. D. Farm has more than 220 million in funding. A lost guinea pig found in the most unlikely of places. Staff at Mountain View city hall found this guy at the center for performing arts yesterday morning. Police say they gave the guinea pig some food and a Police Sergeant is looking after him while animal control looks for its owner. Coming up next, the 7 things you need to know before you go. If you havent yet, follow s us. You can see a lot more pictures like this one. Use abc7now. A live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza. Night as nice of a view. Well be right back. Its my special friend, antonio. His luxurious fur calms my nerves when im worried about moving into our new apartment. Why dont we just ask geico for help with renters insurance . I didnt know geico helps with renters insurance. Yeah, and we could save a bunch too. Antonio fetch computer antonio . Ill get it. Get to know geico and see how much you could save on renters insurance. Super saturday . Friends family take an extra 20 off . Plus take an extra 10 off home save on kitchen electrics. Towels and pillows. And womens tees just 4. 79 plus everyone gets kohls cash plus free amazon returns now at all kohls stores its super saturday. At kohls. 6 58. Thanks for joining us. If youre about to head out the door, here is 7 things you need to know before you go. First is weather. Nice today. 60s at the coast and mainly 70s and 80s elsewhere. We have an excessive heat watch this weekend for highs in the 100s. Even 80s and 90s around the bay. Number two, firefighters are mopping up after a twoalarm fire broke out at a commercial building in oakland before 10 00 last night. The building appeared to be under construction. Nobody was hurt. Number three, Oakland Airport Officials Say they didnt know i. C. E. Was chartering planes through oakland to fly undocumented immigrants. Many are calling it a violation of oaklands sanctuary city policy. Number four, legislation to protect America Elections from outside interference has been blocked by republican leader mitch mcconnell. Democrats called for the legislation after a warning from former special counsel mueller. Five, b. A. R. T. Has a new general manager. Rob powers was the deputy general manager. He says quality of life concerns like homelessness, fair evasion and crime are his time priorities. Number six, only minor delays this friday morning. Bay bridge toll plaza is backed up to the 880 overcrossing. A new crash in Mountain View southbound 101 at moffitt. Garlic floating over gilroy. This is the first day of the gilroy garlic festival. A live look at the venue. Gates open at 10 00 a. M. Colby gal lay, Teresa Guidice will be there. Yes. They got those names. She knows all about garlic because shes a cook and leaning into her italian heritage. They have garlic ice cream, garlic frog leg, calamari. Everything garlicy you can want. Even Garlic Breath mints. Is that true . Probably not. I have no idea. I think at that point the breath mints arent going to do anything. Byob, bring your own breath mints. Thanks for joining us. Hope you have a great weekend. Good morning america starts right now. Good morning, america. Ng us friday. Were tracking a major heat threat. The hottest july on record. Blistering heat wave as 100 wildfires rage, the new triple digit threat. The west coast facing temperatures that could reach 115 degrees and now chicago to new york bracing for a warmup. Ginger tracking the latest. Also this morning, the search for a motive after a deadly rampage. The 26yearold now in custody accused of going on a shooting spree near los angeles. From his home to a gas station, even opening fire on a city bus. Jail cell mystery. Disgraced millionaire Jeffrey Epstein now on suicide watch as