Time now is 4 30. A quick update of weather and traffic where you live. Here is mike. Kumasi, liz, thank you very much. Welcome to tuesday. We kept pointing to today as everything was going to get really dicey. Red flag warning started last night has been extended to 11 00 tomorrow morning. Its for the north bay, the mountains, east bay, hills. Heat advisory starts at 11 00 this morning through 7 00 not only today but also tomorrow. You can see its everybody but the coast and up into the mountains. Well be in the mid50s to low 60s at 7 00. 73 at the coast but already 83 to 88 at noon, on our way to 91 to 98 away from the coast. Hot sunshine and still in the he 80s. Southbound 680 as you make your way pa, theyre trying to a traffic break to clear some of this road work. It is a little bit slow. It should be cleared well before 5 00 and things will be flowing smoothly. A live shot of 101, southbound traffic is on the righthand side moving well to 580 and the earlier crash southbound 101 has been cleared so its looking good all the way down to the Golden Gate Bridge. Thanks, frances. Vta is cracking down on law breakers this morning. Its an effort to prevent accidents for National Rail safety week. One of the places deputies will be handing out tickets or warnings is at the light rail station near Delmar High School in san jose. This summer a student was injured there when she went under the safety gate, the same way another student was killed five years ago. There have been 20 vtarelated accidents this year that crackdown starts at 7 00 this morning. Building a better bay area sometimes involves sounding an alarm. In the south bay residents are calling on the city of san jose to help slow drivers down. Abc 7 News Reporter amanda del castillo braves one busy intersection to bring us the details. Reporter busy streets, speeding cars and stop signs that are ignored. The posted speed limit here, 25 Miles Per Hour. People living in the north side neighborhood are fed up. We took a walk and asked whether people feel safe simply crossing the street. No, im terrified. Reporter matt spain explained the neighborhood is surrounded by several schools and is a short distance from the new b. A. R. T. Station and the citys booming downtown area. He says anticipated growth and activity have residents even more anxious. Its triangulating with massive amounts of traffic that can come through here. Reporter gary has a front row seat. He lives at 21st and washington where neighbors have posted signs pleading for drivers to please slow down. Ive even seen cars do 60, 70 miles an hour straight through the stop signs. Reporter a few blocks away, still no relief. Nest cams captured more bad behavior. Its blood boiling. Reporter Paul Marshall calls it reckless abandon by people who dont care about conseque e consequences. Ive had close calls and im being careful. I cant imagine what a San Jose High School student riding their bike and, you know, has ear buds in not paying attention, thats a recipe for disaster. Reporter so he and others are reaching out hoping leaders will explore traffic calming measures before the issue becomes much worse. Anything that can make people slow down in our neighborhood will save lives. Reporter mayor sam liccardo was unable to talk but they are always willing to explore traffic concerns grow. Im amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. New this morning the Trump Administration is threatening to freeze federal highway funding for california, accusing the state of failing to submit air pollution control plans. This is just the latest dispute between the president and california over climate change. That fight escalated when california sued over setting its own tailpipe emission standards. New developments, a loss in court for residents in san rafael trying to stop smart train testing. A federal judge denied their motion to halt overnight testing of the systems horns. Smart has been testing its rail extension since august. Testing is expected to end soon and is next scheduled for friday night. Happening now Mountain View city council is set to vote on new restrictions for rv parking on city streets. The proposal would ban oversized vehicles on streets that are 40 feet wide or less. The typical width of residential streets and streets with bicycle lanes. Opponents, including the aclu, say the ban is unconstitutional. The city has established safe parking programs for campers but those spots are limited. Tonights City Council Meeting starts at 5 00 p. M. Developing news this morning, schools in puerto rico are closed as people brace for the impacts of tropical depression karen. This comes after two earthquakes hit the country yesterday including a 5. 1 magnitude jolt. The quakes hit northwest of isabela. They were followed by at least three aftershocks. There are no immediate reports of damage, though. Emergency management offices are already open around the clock in preparation for karen. The storm is expected to bring flash flooding and up to 8 inches of rain. All right. Say goodbye to paper ticket sales at another b. A. R. T. Station. Well tell you where its happening today in the east bay. And another death being blamed on vaping. What were learning about the latest victim. The president remains defiant denying there was any type of quid pro quo in his conversation with the president of ukraine. Ill have the details coming up. First, time right now is 4 36 and you are never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Good morning, mike. Good morning, liz. A look at your 24hour temperature change. Look at the north bay. 12 degrees warmer. Fairfield, 16. The rest of us up to five degrees warmer. Where does that put us under Clear Conditions . Still pretty comfortable in our east bay valleys. The trivalley in the upper 50s to low 60s. Its highway 4 where its warm once again. Air conditioners running all night with those low to mid70s. And then elsewhere we have 71 right now in pacifica. 72 in los gatos. Those higher elevations, that pacifica temperature is up in the hills not right down at the ocean level. 55 in novato. That seems like an outlier there. A look at what will happen with your commute today and hopefully everybodys air conditioner is running well. We have stars to sunshine. No fog this morning. Mild to hot on mass transit. Warm and hazy on the bay. The north bay, look at this, we start 63 at 7 00. 98 at 3 00 and a few of us will hit 100 during that time frame. Here is a look at the east bay. Already low 80s at noon. On our way to a few 90s around 3 00. And still 80 at 7 00. Your average high is like 75 in oakland. Here is a look at San Francisco, average high is 70. Well be warmer than that by 9 00 in the morning on our way to mid and upper 80s and a few 90s are possible here in the hotter spots like right around twin peaks. Well talk more about even hotter temperatures tomorrow and that poor air Quality Holding on. I hate to say its a two had been day event. We brought frances in this morning. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Traffic is doing pretty well, too. I always worry when we have this hot weather how it affects drivers sometimes. Especially motorcyclists, right . You see that a lot, dont you. Sometimes i get worried. Ill see more motorcycle accidents the hotter the weather is. We see more of those. And a look at the t nowau there wrongway driver on highway 17 in campbell and apparently they are traveling possibly northbound in the southbound lanes. Were looking out for that and chp is en route to find that driver. Here is a live shot of 280 and highway 17 not too far away from the scene. And you can see traffic still very light and flowing well here in all directions. Headlights are on northbound 280 and also the ride across the san mateo bridge is delay free. Thats righthand side traffic moving westbound to foster city. Drive times are looking good on the Richmond San Rafael bridge, the san mateo bridge and the here is a look at walnut creek, one of those areas that could have poor air quality later on. I wanted to throw the map up there. People ask me where exactly is the South Central bay . You can see its the area in pink there, the santa clara valley, and inland east bay is in green, that will have poor air quality. Fire danger continues until 11 00 wednesday, also in the Sacramento Valley and the foothills of the sierra. Mid to upper 90s through the central valley. We have 87 today in monterey. The same temperature in l. A. 83 in yosemite. 70s up in tahoe. Look at this. We start 69 friday. 58 saturday with showers. 48 sunday with showers turning to a little bit of snow sunday evening. Thanks, mike. New pressure this morning on President Trump after the whistleblower complaint he tried to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate joe biden. Today House Speaker nancy pelosi is meeting with members of her caucus to discuss the possibility of impeachment. Reporter President Trump remains defiant acknowledging he did talk about joe biden with the president of ukraine but denying there was any kind of quid pro quo. As President Trump gears up to address the United Nations General Assembly today hes still pushing back on that wall street journal report. Its just a democrat witchhunt. Here we go again. Reporter insisting he did nothing wrong by repeatedly asking ukrainian president zelensky to investigate his campaign rival joe biden. At the time of the call the Trump Administration was with holding 250 million in aid to ukraine that congress had already approved. Now the trump ordered staffers to freeze that aid just days before his conversation with zelensky. Trump dense there was any quid pro quo. I did not make a statement that you have to do this or im not going to give you aid. I wouldnt do that. Reporter minutes later i put no pressure on them whatsoever. I could have. I think it would have possibly been okay if i did, but i didnt. I didnt put any pressure on them whatsoever. Reporter back in Washington Republicans have been mostly silent on the matter, but a steady trickle of House Democrats are now lining up to support impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will hold a closed door meeting with members of her caucus this afternoon amid reports shes been quietly discussing with her allies whether its time to impeach. A new vaping related death brings the total nationwide to nine now. The governor of kansas says a man over 50 died after an illness linked to vaping. Governor laura kelly says he had Underlying Health conditions. The cdc says there have been 530 confirmed and probable cases of lung injury related to ecigarettes as of september 17th. Texts to 911, a Service Launching in Santa Clara County including the city of san jose. The Technology Gives accese who are hearing impaired but its a good way to call for help when making a phone call is unsafe. The official launch is on wednesday. Happening today b. A. R. T. s Downtown Berkeley station will stop selling paper tickets. Downtown berkeley is the fourth b. A. R. T. Station to go clipper only at its vending machines. You can still use paper tickets to enter and exit at every station and fare machines will still accept them. B. A. R. T. Plans to stop selling paper tickets system wide by some time next year. And more of b. A. R. T. s new fleet of the future cars are in operation tweeting 58 cars are now in service. Its received about double that number but they still have to test and certify those cars before they could carry passengers. Over the next few months, aid transportation is shifting production of the new cars from the east coast to the east bay city of pittsburg. Eventually more than 700 cars will replace b. A. R. T. s original fleet. I think i was on one of those this weekend. This is nice. Nice. Good to see more of them on there. Time now is 4 46. Of course youre never more than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. Here is all right, ladies, thank you. I hear the airconditioning works much better on the new ones which is something youre going to think about today when you pack that many people in a tin can. Its going to get really hot if the air conditioners arent cranking early. Its already 70 up on mt. Tam. It is not moving at all. Thankfully the winds at least up here not quite as dangerous as they could be. Theyre about 20 Miles Per Hour so its not gusting too badly, at least not compared to other areas where we have 30mileperhour winds in our hills and that will continue the next few days and we have the possibility of fire danger. The weekend will feel like fall. 60s and 70s. Today you cant sniff those anywhere, mid90s to 100 in the south bay with morgan hill and gilroy hitting 100. Likely to hit 100, also 95 at the airport. Mid90s on the peninsula. Look at these 80s along the coast. You jump into the upper 90s to low 100s to the north bay. Clover dale, 105, easily the warm spot today. Very uncomfortable today and 99 to 100. Low 60s to upper 60s but look at this, 70s and 80s in our hills and mountains as the fire danger continues. Were around ten degrees cooler thursday. Thats still 70s, 80s and 90s. Another ten degrees cooler sunday. Were going to drop 30 degrees from wednesday to sunday. Frances . Oh, my gosh. Looking forward to that cooling for inland areas. Here is a live shot at 680 and walnut creek where there are some brake lights, trying to clear traffic cones and chp ran a traffic break. It looks like its picking up now because only seeing a few brake lights left. Theres some road work that also should be cleared from here as you make your way to highway 24 and southbound 680. That should be picked up by 5 00. A live shot of the Golden Gate Bridge shows light traffic. You can see clear across the span here and its a spare the air day f. Youre heading to the Richmond San Rafael bridge, not much of a dela at all on as you head to the toll plaza. Lots of brake lights as you make your way out of tracy where traffic is moving near 20 miles an hour until you get into the altamont pass. So the drive time from tracy to Castro Valley is now yellow at 47 minutes. Thank you, frances. Reports say fitbit is exploring a possible sale. And tesla seems to be developing a one million march car battery. Heres tech bytes. Fitbit may be hanging up a for sale sign. One potential buyer may be googles company alphabet. The bid is facing competition from cheaper brands in a struggle to compete with giants like apple. Amazon could be getting into the fitness tracking craze. Reports say the company is developing wireless ear buds that will be powered by alexa that will reportedly monitor a runners distance, pace and calories burned. This could be a game changer in the auto industry. Its possible a battery could be developed for electric cars that could run for 1 million miles. Teslas elon musk promised such a battery. It could be on the market sooner than expected. 1 million miles . With the kids . Those are your tech bytes. Are we there yet . Berkeley breaks ground on an Affordable Housing project and its just the beginning. A car dealership finds itself in hot water with the state of can california. 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Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. All right. Six games left in the bochy era of the giants, and it starts tonight at oracle park. 6 45 first pitch. Rockies in town. 79 degrees, dropping down to 71. A little warmer than were used to at oracle park. Have fun. If you recently bought a car, the state of californias attorney general may want to hear from you. They focus on customers who may have credit problems and a total of seven dealerships including this one here which you see is in oakland. The lawsuit claims they falsified credit applications and charged customers for unauthorized addons. People were told they had to buy service contracts, that they were required by law, that their lending required them or were included in the price of the vehicle which is completely false. The company did not respond to our request for comment. The attorney general says there may be more victims and encourages customers to contact his office. Berkeley has Broken Ground on an Affordable Housing project in the southern part of the city. The stewart street apartment project will become permanent lowincome housing. A coalition of groups is behind the project including the baptist church. The city wants to turn more vacant buildings around berkeley into homes. The church says they want to prevent more displacement and gentrification in the neighborhood. It should be ready for tenants by the end of next year. The feud between the 49ers and the city of santa clara over control of events at levi stadium. The 49ers filed a lawsuit friday after the city moved to strip them of that control. Santa clara wants to end an agreement that lets the team santalara says it to settle the dispute in court instead of going through private arbitration. The city claims mismanagement by the 49ers has cost them money. Heres a couple things to look at. Those are the earthquakes just to the northwest of puerto rico, and that is Tropical Storm karen just to the south thats going to cause all that wet weather. In fact, weve had nearly 36 reports of earthquakes near puerto rico. 6. 3 magnitude the strongest and so we have those 6 to 8 inches of rain on the way, also. Theyre dealing with some real headaches. I wanted to show you quickly our fire danger and let me stop this and show you the worst fire danger is still ahead of us. If you look at the orange, the very high at 7 00 this morning all the way up in sonoma, solano and napa counties. That continues to grow through napa and solano counties as we head through the morning hours. You can see it tapers a little bit as we head through the evening and during the overnight hours it increases one more time before we get to 11 00 tomorrow morning when the fire threat finally ends. Here is frances. A new crash just reported with injuries in a really bad spot. As you make your way to the altamont pass, its always slow there early in the morning and now an injury crash. They say its in the center divide. Once they get there they might slow traffic down even further which is already at a crawl from westbound 205 out of tracy. Were keeping an eye on the drive times, westbound 580 tracy to dublin, 40 minutes. Thats the slow spot. Southbound 680 at this point looking good. Dublin to mission bou bou bou free mon fremont. As you make your way up to cupertino. Bay bridge toll Plaza Building for some of the cash paying lanes there. Fastrak lanes still looking good. Here is a live shot of 101 and 880. Headlights are northbound 101 and thats 880 moving well across your screen. Frances, thank you. Here is a feel good one. A 5yearold boy has a knowledge of geography that will really blow your mind. Whats that . Columbia. Bogota the capital. Hes so sweet. 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