Just a few moments. And, of course, air quality still a huge concern. Here is a live look at the air quality tracker on our website abc7news. Com. You can see the air is unhealthy and in the south and east bays. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 25th. A lot to get to. But, first, we want to check in with you, mike, to see what our forecast has in store today. We know that will have a big impact on how theyre able to fight these fires. Exactly. We have a mixture of fog and smoke this morning. And the fog the closer you are to the coast, that is where the marine layer is the deepest around 1,100 to 1,200 feet and visibility down to less than a quarter of a mile on the peninsula coast and with the winds blowing ashore lightly some of that fog is making it all the way into napa. Now, i want to wrap it up right here and send it back to you guys because we have a press conference on the fires. Okay. The czu lightning complex fire burning were hoping to get some updated numbers. Please, keep your mask on when not speaking. Quick update, as of 6 00 this morning this incident is now 78,869 acres. The good news is we continue to make progress on containment up to 17. 17 containment this morning. With that, we have 25,000 structures threatened by this incident and we can confirm that 330 structures have been destroyed by the fire. Of the structures, 11 of them are in San Mateo County and 319 are in santa cruz county. Additionally, we have 1,611 personnel assigned to the incident. With that, ill pass it over to imt3 operation section chief for an operations update. Good morning. So, the past couple days weve seen significant progress in our fire fight on this incident. The werlth is really cooperated with us. Were steadily getting trickle of resources in as soon as were getting those resources, were putting them to our plan to achieve our strategy and tactics for this incident. The incident starting up at the top of the north zones looking really good. Fire is basically just where it exists is creeping down towards our control lines that we have established or we are in the process of establishing so we have no major fire front. Just a slow creep of the fire. Again, if we had a bunch of resources, wed have that surrounded and be able to extinguish. But this is part of our alternative strategy and its working in our favor and doing exactly what we want and although people may see some flames or some fire or see smoke more so than anything, just know that really its part of our overall strategy and poses no threat with our wind patterns and weather patterns. Its doing exactly what we want it to do and it is, again, an alternative strategye inhe it is doing just that. We have an active patrol and lots of resources in there and critical piece of line because even with our new wind pattern coming from the south giving it a little bit of a push, its a no factor because why we want to button that up, that is a direct, would have been a direct threat to Santa Clara County in the line there. Were very confident that is holding and were going to be really looking good there. Around the top, continue Line Construction and into loma mar and very difficult for us to put a good control line in there but because of that were using that alternative method and monitoring that and have resources there monitoring that and thats looki well ntue t put in more and were affectly engaged in putting very good direct control line in which will protect the community and put that in a good spot for protection. Down the coast looking really good. Fire, again, a lot of it selfmitigated and some of the lighter fuels due to this weather. On the south or south lines that we put in been speaking of regarding the contingency lines and holding very well. A lot of the fire has blackened out and is extenguished. So were continuing to work on that area. So, santa cruz and the uc campus looking very well protected. No threat at this point in time. And with our expected weather, were not very concerned with any further push there. So, just a matter of getting in, getting that mopped up and finally putting that away. Moving up the highway 9 corridor, looking really good. Fire is still hung up on the ridge top and as soon as we can getmoreurs welbe doi th. Re just rea not doing much. Were not as concerned with any push on that area. Moving up the highway 9 corridor, ben loamen and brookdale is looking really good. That Little Community is fine. The fire is hung up really high and our challenge is down below and the state park. Again, just rugged terrain and heavy fuels and were continuing to work in there. Thats where were having the challenge. The roll out it rolls out below and burns back up into itself. Its just something that were working on. A real challenge not easy country to work in. As we move into Boulder Creek that is looking really good. A lot of resources in there and actively constructing line. Weve been working our helicopters diligently through there yesterday because of the air was clear and we have six water dropping helicopters. 200,000 gallons. We dropped yesterday and we timed out the aircraft. That means we flew the aircraft to the maximum we could fly them as far as the hours we could put on in a day per regulations. So, we did that. And i anticipate today we are going to meet that same criteria and maybe exceed the amount of water dropped. That is the challenge i gave to my air folks and theyre ready to meet that challenge to help our ground resources. Bonny doon, again, continue to work in there. A lot of good, hard work being done. Lines put in. Again, slow, tedious process. But were working hard on that and then were starting to work doing some things to work deeper into the incident and the obstacles to continue on our challenge to extinguish this fire. Thank you. Speaking next from the Santa Cruz Sheriff Office is chief deputy chris clark. Well, good morning. Some positive news on the fire and from our standpoint, a little positive news from us and really the port i got back this morning was that not a lot of people were running around and fair qethich isatpele, i that warning, heeding that order to stay out of the evacuated order to let people work. I just encourai continue to enc that. A total of 79 personnel working the area. The entire san lorenzo valley and 46 and today well have about that same number, 76 with 23 Sheriff Office personnel, 18 from in county and, again, like, you know, ive said this before, i cant say thank you, we cant say thank you enough to our encounty and the other agency santa cruz pd, watsonville and Scotts Valley for helping us. 18 from those agencies and then 35 agencies from over the hill. I think i neglected to mention this yesterday, but in terms of missing persons cases, we did have three new cases come in yesterday that our detectives are working through. That brings our total to seven. Seven total missing persons cases that were going to be going through to make sure we know where those folks are. In terms of calls for service. Like i said, a relatively quiet night. 11 total and and our guys went out on and as well they went out to six reports of suspicious people. A new development for us and really, again, to tell you kind of a little bit of the changing condition in terms of just the dangers that are out there, felton empire is impassable. According to our folks. Our folks dont feel comfortable driving through that area just from falling branches and some fire activity in that area. So, overall, relatively quiet night. So, you know, hopefully it stays that way and like i explained last night. We will be out here and a heavy Police Presence and all that is to keep your property, to keep your property safe. Thank you. Next up from the San Mateo County Sheriff Office is Sergeant Saul zuno. Good morning. Good morning. As a fire chief stated, in San Mateo County the fire situation remains stable with noange. Safety and security checks of the evacuated areas also reported no suspicious activity. Thats all we have. Thank you. As you are aware, this incident has a multitude of different agencies and unified command including multiple fire districts cal fire, as well as the Law Enforcement agencies. Speaking for that unified team is Cal Fire Incident Team 3 Incident Commander billy c. Good morning. Obviously, positive news over the last couple of days on the fire. Were able to gain additional perimeter control. Sad to report over 300 structures damaged or destroyed and that number is only going to increase. Obviously, a large incident like this incompasses numerous roadways and numerous structures within the interior that is very difficult to get to. Especially with the amount of trees that have fallen and the amount of debris that is in the road. Today, were going to be focusing not only pereter fight fo out onground, but were developing our road group and systematically start opening roadways up and debris and gaining access to increase the ability for our damage inspection teams throughout this incident to make interior access to identify any private property that has been damaged or destroyed. This is going to be a long, tedious process. The majority of this fire incompasses large, old growth timber. Those trees are coming down across the roads. A lot of the wooden bridges that are in the area have either been damaged or burned. Theyre impassable. So, its going to take diligent effort on our part to identify access points, get them cleared and get those folks in there so we can do a thorough assessment and provide the most detailed information. Thank you. And our final speaker this morning from the cal fire san mateo, from the l fire Santa Cruz Unit is unit chiefian larkin. Good morning. They mentioned, the team is doing an outstanding job with the resources we have available to us. From the start, we have had a limited number of resources on all the fires that occurred. The 22 we started with and now the one large incident that we have. The mutual aid system isut whe tasked due to the number of fires across the state, it does limit our ability to get those resources here in a timely manner. So, as they start to trickle in, the team is getting them out to the assignments that they can get them to that are our pare priorities and theyre doing an outstanding job with that. As for the public, the roadways are very, very dangerous out there. Those still in the fire area, you need to be very cautious and youre driving around and out and about or if youre around the property that has been damaged by fire. Those trees are weakened due to fire and also due to drought. So, please be cognizant of that. The firefighters are out there are putting themselves in positions in that same environment and were doing whatever we can to protect them but also get the roadways open so we can get our damage inspection teams in there to really evaluate what losses we have but also determine what structures are still left. So, please be patient with us. Were doing the best we can with the resources we have and were in this for the long hall, as i keep stating. This is a historic event for this unit. We have never seen fire like this in the history, recent history that we have any records for. So, this fuel is very receptive due to drought conditions. So, any changes in the weather, though we have good predicted weather for the future, could change that environment. So, please bear with us. Be safe out there and i know our crews are working as hard as they possibly to get control of this fire. Thank you. All right. Answer any questions that might be out there. Theres a lot of good news we just got from this news conference. If youre just joining us, the contain frment the czu fire that is burning in san mateo and santa clara counties is 17 that is up from 13 yesterday. But probably the more important number here is that although its at 78,000 acres, which of course, huge, that is not a very big increase from the day before. So, the fire appears to have really slowed down and a lot of that is being credited to the weather and the wind conditions yesterday according to this news conference, firefighters were able to get a lot of headway. They were also able to make headway in the air, which is not something they have been able to do until now at least with great effectiveness because they werent able to fly aircraft very much over this fire. So, yesterday it sounds like they were able to do that a number of times and they are hopeful today theyll be able to match that or even do more. Still, as you can see from this video, so many structures have been destroyed. 330 destroyed total. And the vast majority of those in santa cruz county. 319 out of that 330 in that county. The other thing that were going to be watching is the Sheriff Department saying that seven people are now missing. So they are still looking into four from yesterday and an additional three that are new to us. So, seven total missing person cases that theyre looking in to. Other than that, they say last night the santa cruz Sheriff Department are relatively quiet and please would the compliance right now as far as people staying out of the evacuation zones. So, again, 17 contained. The the lnu complex fire is giving crews all they can handle. Crews are battle back flames that are stretching from large parts of wine country. So far its burned more than 350,000 acres in napa, sonoma and solano counties. Containment is rising. Amy hollyfield is following this fire fight and joins us live with the latest. They still have road closures in the area and evacuation areas in place. But Officials Say yesterday they ended in a much better place than they even expected. That they absolutely liked what they are seeing on this fire. We have some video of the fire from yesterday afternoon burning in the hills northwest of healdsburg near dry creek road. They expect this fire to grow. Residents are pitching in to help try to save ranches and homes. This fire has destroyed some homes west of healsburg but they do think that their efforts have helped make a difference. Every time you can save a structure, its a win. But sometimes its just unfortunate and i cant emphasize the preemptative work that weve done on our ranch preparing for this. You know, weve been doing a lot of clearing and burning and its been, it paid off. It really did. Our preparation of the, you know, bulldozer lines away from the house out of sight but were able to utilize everything that we had prepared for. The walbridge fire has burned and they do not have a count yet on how many homes or buildings it has destroyed. Officials say the weather has given them a break and they hope that that will help them continue to make progress. They say their goal is to get evacuated residents back to their homes as soon as they can. They have not given a timeline yet on when that could possibly happen. Containment on this fire is at 7 . But look for that number to go up today. Reporting live in now your forecast with mike nicco. Checking on the latest conditions out there as far as our air quality. Some areas Getting Better and some areas getting worse. Lets take a look at them. Start by taking the overall view. But a whole lot of red and purple in the Central Valley and we have a southwest to northwest wind above the marine layer and pushing most of that smoke off to our east. Right now redwood city and fremont with unhealthy air around the bay as you head into the east bay, you have concord and head up into the north bay and napa unhealthy for everybody and deeper up around ukiah also unhealthy for everybody there. Lets take a look at whats going on and you have a mixture of marine layer clouds and just a touch of smoke around sfo. Definitely a lot thicker the farther south you go like around redwood city. 58 degrees right there. Heres a look at todays forecast. Temperature wise. You can see we stay in the 60s at the coast and reach 80 around the bay and upper 80s to near 90 inland. It is going to be average to a little bit above average. Well take a look at this sevenday forecast and how long the smoke will hang around, coming up. Jobina . Thank you, mike. Good morning, everyone. So, as mike was saying, yes, were looking at that fog and also the smoke. And in some situations combination of both. So, we take a live look outside right now showing you the Golden Gate Bridge where the chp issued a fog advisory for the area and approaching the Robin Williams tunnel. Be aware of that low visibility and take your time this morning. Bringing in the maps and you can see the areas impacted starting in the north bay here. That smoke in the area. So, along 221 through that area and then moving down towards the peninsula and then also the south bay, as well, where you can see we have a number of road closures due to the fire including highway 1 and state route 9 and we have a full list of the closures so youre a small bor a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. But is it secure . Sure its secure. 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Save 50 on the sleep number 360 limited Edition Smart bed. Only for a limited time. To learn more, go to sleepnumber. Com. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Now from abc7, live breaking news. The last couple days weve seen significant progress on our progress on this fire fight. That is great news. Crews battling the ccu lightning fire complex starting to get the upper hand. Containment now at 17 and our weather is helping that fire fight. Here is a map of the three major wildfires that we are tracking this morning. The lnu lightning complex and the scu in the east and south bays more than 360,000 acres and the czu complex more than 80,000 acres in the santa cruz mountains. Combined, they have burned an area larger than the state of rhode island. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 25th. And, mike, i was so happy to hear the update that the weather is actually helping with the fire fight. So, what is in store for today. I tell you what, kumasi, hard to explain to our friends in the east coast exactly what were dealing with here and how the magnitude of it is. So, lets get right into it. Right now we have some pretty unhealthy smoke around redwood city and our reporting station there in fremont. Unhealthy for everybody. Right now san jose went back to moderate. So, weve got an ebb and flow of the marine layer trying to mix things up. Sensitive groups unhealthy and fairfield and napa turned back to red and we stayed red all morning in ukiah and lets take a look at what is going to happen. Spare the air through wednesday and the bay area air Quality Management. This is our official forecast and looking that wind conditions and their meteorologist will see the same ones and extend that deeper into the week. Heres a look at our temperatures average into the coast and San Francisco 67 and above average around the bay and 70 to about 80 the range there and especially the east bay with some 90s in the forecast. Unhealthy air, covid19, wear a mask. Mike, thank you. We have an update from cal fire and how firefighters are preparing for an intense day ahead in the czu complex fire. Burned more than 78,000 acres. But overnight barely grew which means firefighters are making good progress. Abc7 News Reporter Julian Glover live from Scotts Valley with what we just learned in the last 30 minutes. Hi, julian. Hi, reggie. Not just some progress, but really significant progress. Thats what cal fire said this morning. They really attributed weather to being a huge factor in that. They increased the containment of the fire overnight from 13 to 17 . A big win for the firefighters that have been attacking this blaze now for seven consecutive days. We do want to give you updates on what theyve been doing. On the north end of the fire, so, the threat that was, the part of the fire that was posing a threat to Santa Clara County they have now been saying that the fire is doing what they want up there creeping towards the control lines that theyve been able to put in place. You mig som flames or smoke and that is part of their strategy and they are saying no longer a threat to Santa Clara County hoping it will stay that way if the wind conditions continue to keep their current conditions. Theyve been actively putting those control lines in along the coast to save pescudearo and parts of davenport and taking advantage of the marine layer that is helping extinguish part of the fire along the coast and to the south theyve said theyve been able to set some control lines there. The fire blackened out or extinguished in parts and theyre feeling confident that the city of santa cruz is safe at this point. We do want to let you know about the air operation. They said they had a lot of success in that on monday. Visibility improved and that allowed them to attack the fire from the air. Been working our helicopters diligently through there yesterday because of the air was clear. We have six water dropping helicopters. 200,000 gallons we dropped yesterday and we timed out the aircraft. Some good news, another line of attack. Not just attacking the fire from the ground, but also the air hoping to see more of that today. We do also want to let you know that seven people are currently missing in santa cruz county. Four people reported missing yesterday. Three more being added to that total for a number of seven people now missing. The sheriffs deputies there hoping to locate those people safely and soon. And as the fire fight continues, more firefighters are being added into the mix. Now some 1,600 personnel attacking the czu fire complex. Reporting live in Scotts Valley, Julian Glover. Thank you, julian. In the north bay, firefighters are slowly gaining control of the lnu lightning complex fire. So far its burned more than 350,000 acres in areas of sonoma, napa and solano counties. Abc7 News Reporter Amy Hollyfield following the fire fight with the latest in healdsburg. Fire Officials Say the weather has given them a break. They expect this fireontue growt expect Significant Growth any more on this fire. We have some video from yesterday to show you of this fire burning in the hills. This is northwest of headlsburg near dry creek road. Burned another 0 acres in igrsa. It has burned homes in areas, rural areas west of healdsburg. They saw hope last evening as they headed off to bed. There was definitely blue skies before the sun went down and that was hopeful and the smell of smoke isnt as bad as it has been the last couple days. Cal fire says the humidity has helped them on the fire fight. They were also pleased that the predicted Lightning Strikes did not happen here. They were worried that would spark more new fires. Officials said they ended yesterday in a better place than what they expected. They absolutely like what they are seeing, but they say everyone must stay vigilant. The weather this morning very nice for firefighters. Very cool here. Its very calm. Reporting live in healdsburg, Amy Hollyfield. Breaking news. Little relief for people who have been under a mandatory Evacuation Order for the scu lightning complex fire. That order has been downgraded to a warning for people in parts of Santa Clara County, the scu fire is now the second largest wildfire in state history. Its burning more than 163,000 acres and 15 contained. Five people have been injured in the fire and 12 buildings destroyed and abc7 news was embedded with the crew as it entered the fire zone. Firefighters explain their plan of attack. Were burning out aroundcthe burning out around them and let the fire push off away from them so when the fire does come to it, there will be less to burn. Two strike teams of 44 firefighters from texas are among crews fighting the flames. The goal for the crews today is to keep the fire west of i5. Kumasi. Thank you, jobina. New this morning, an incredible survival story. Two men recovering from burns after narrowly escaping the scu lightning complex. Putting final touches on protecting their family home as flames quickly approached. They were leaving and they caught themself. No one was coming further. The only car on the property that did not burn was the ranch explorer. Tom was able to find a battery that still had some juice in it and with his bloody hands and rusted crescent wrench he was able to get the battery to go in there. Both men are now in the icu at uc davis. A total of four patients recovering there from injuries related to wildfires. You can follow the fires statewide with our exclusive wildfire tracker. Updated with the very latest information from the cal fire and check in to see where fires are spreading. The acres that have been burned and containment information in realtime. The abc fire tracker is available right now at abc7news. Com and on the abc7 news app. Now an abc7 news live desk update. At the live desk, a trial has begun for an experimental drug that could treat and possibly even prevent covid19. Astrazeneca announced this morning that it has dosed the first round of participants with an antibody based cocktail. Up to 48 Healthy People in the United Kingdom will be tested. The trial will test the safety and tolerability of the drug. The treatment is similar to one used to treat certain types of cancer. U. S. Infectious disease expert dr. Anthony fauci has called the type of treatment, quote, almost a sure bet against covid19. Reggie and kumasi. To have watched the video that we watched as his uncle was disturbing to say the least. And were asking everybody to be their better severlves. Another eruption of protests after another Police Shooting of an unarmed black man still ahead, a full look of a day of action as the attorney for james blake joins gma this morning. A live look at the big board at the New York Stock Exchange this morning. Another update on how the markets are doing, next. Plus, the comfort food now being turned into pizza toppings by dominos. First, a look at your accuweather forecast. Heres mike. Hi, well jump right in with cooler conditions cooler than yesterday. 56 in santa rosa and some of our cooler temperatures 57 at Half Moon Bay and 58 in San Francisco and everybody else in the low to mid 60s. Weve had some measurable drizzle up in grislzzly peak an up in the north bay about 400. So, the marine layer is a little thicker and a little juicier this morning. That means humidity is a little bit high and thats why were seeing better Fire Fighting conditions. The winds are starting to calm down a little bit. They were up to about 20 Miles Per Hour at the golden gate and now down to 13 and only eight here on our roof camera in San Francisco where you can see a mix of the sun and smoke. Caution your commute this morning whether its the smoke, the visibility, the lowness that it causes. Little smoother on the water, but, still, you have to deal with all that other stuff. You can see calm conditions. 68 over the hennessey fire and 55 over at the walbridge fire anversus 42 10 Miles Per Hour the west and keep the humidity a little higher than it would otherwise. Same thing up around the wa fire and 50 at the czu lightning fire and the winds will remain fairly light at least at the surface but blowing northwest to southeast all the smoke across the southern parts of the bay, the south bay and inland east bay and thats why we have the spare the air report. Well talk about that coming up. Get over to jobina. Are you seeing any issues with the reduction in visibility out there . Just as far as the speed of the traffic, mike. So, yes. Absolutely as mike was just stating. We have been watching this low visibility due to the smoke as well as the fog. A fog advisory issued by for the chp for the Golden Gate Bridge. I just want to show you the spots. Surrounding the map for the peninsula and as we move further south creeping towards the areas of the fires. The full closures for highway 1, state route 9 and 34 or excuse me 35 and 84 and then also moving up to the north bay here. We do have a full list of closures on our website. As we take a look outside, i want to bring you a picture of the bay bridge toll plaza. Metering lights came on before 5 58. Expect a back up once you make it through the lights. Muni is shutting town rail service, again. Just three days after it resumed. Service was shut down for five months because of the pandemic. The sfmta director sedan equipment problem and an employees positive covid19 test caused a staffing shortage. Its unclear when service will be back. Covid has caused a 2 million hole in an extra 15 credit on car and motorcycle policies . Thats great thats 15 on top of what geico could already save you. So what are you waiting for . John stamos to knit you a scarf . All finished, jean. Enjoy thank you. I give. The stitch work is impeccable. Its just a double fleck pattern with a reverse garter stitch. No big deal. Is your hair this soft . Softer. Geico. Save an extra 15 when you switch by october 7th. Mike nicco. Second Tropical Storm in the gulf just turned into a hurricane and expected to cause devastating damage along the gulf coast when it makes landfall late tomorrow night possibly as a category 3 storm. Some people in texas and louisiana urged to evacuate. Up to 15 inches of rain possible and the storm surge could top ten feet. Red cross Officials Say they will have shelters available. New orleans has added a new precaution. This wall will protect the city from any storm surge. Its 26 feet high and nearly two miles long and taken decades since katrina came through there to finally finish that. But good for those residents. Remember the ninth ward. That was awful. Heres a look at laura really quickly. Let me show you where it is going and the cone of probability anywhere from around galveston all the way over to almost places like baton rouge. 1 115mileperhour winds. Thats going to be devastating. Quick look at our forecast and you can see mainly low clouds and marine layer at the Golden Gate Bridge with a west wind at 13 and we have smog everywhere else this morning with mid 50s to low 60s on our ways to 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s from the coast to inland. Little bit above average. Mike, thank you. New details just coming in about the condition of the black father who was shot by a white Police Officer in wisconsin. We have just learned that that dad is paralyzed. Jobina at the live desk with more information. Jobina. Yes, reggie. The father of 29yearold jacob blake spoke with the Chicago Sun Times this morning. He says blake is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot several times by kenosha, wisconsin, police. This comes as new video has emerged of the moments that led up to that shooting. Before we show it on camera here. We just want to let everybody know this may be disturbing for some to see. We will bring it up. The video captured on the same side of the street where the shooting took place. Blake is on the ground beside the car before he gets up to walk to the drivers seat. You can hear gunshots. The second night of unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. People set cars and businesses on fire. Police used tear gas to Disperse Protesters in front of the courthouse. Wisconsins Lieutenant Governor says he understands the frustration over another black man being injured by a white officer. This was not an accident. This wasnt bad police work. This felt like some sort of vendetta being taken out on a member of our community. Two officers involved in the shooting are on administrative leave. Civil rights Attorney Ben Crump is representing blakes family. He will be on Good Morning America today at 7 00 right after abc7 mornings. Reggie . Sorry to hear about his condition. Okay. Thank you. A virtual town hall to rally support for a New California bill that ames to regulate policing at protests. Assembly bill 66 would create the nations first standards for how and when Law Enforcement agencies can deploy socalled, less lethal weapons. That includes rubber bullets and pepper spray. Would also ban the use of tear gas for crowd control. Todays town hall will include testimony from survivors of police violence. Now your voice, your vote. Today day two of the Republican National convention and were going to hear from first Lady Melania Trump. This comes after a fiery speech from governor newsoms exwife kimberly guilfoyle. She took direct aim at california. A place of immeasurable and the democrats turned it into a land of discarded heroin needles in parks and riots in streets and blackouts in homes. Republicans are rallying behind President Trump to defeat former Vice President joe biden in november. Joe biden and the democrats are stillalmpalwaysmeca first. He has earned four more years as president. The first lady will deliver her speech tonight from the white house rose garden. You can catch live coverage of the Republican National Convention Today through thursday at 7 00 p. M. Right here on abc7. Now to your Morning Money report. San franciscos based wells fargo has to pay 7. 8 million in back pay after being accused of discriminating against black job applicants. The u. S. Department of labor says the bank discriminated against 34,000 africanamericans. More than 300 female applicants also face discriminatory practices. Wells fargo has also agreed to provide applicants with new job opportunities. Were taking a live look at the New York Stock Exchange as trading gets under way this morning. You can see were up ever so slightly about three points. Delta airlines is planning to furlough 2,000 pilots this fall. Delta says it is overstaffed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The airline estimates it has more than 11,000 active pilots currently, but it only needs about 9,500 for its peak flying period. Furloughs will start in october. If taco pizza and cheeseburger pizza sound appealing to you, then you want to give dominos a call. Actual tacos and burgers are not delivery friendly because they say the bread and tortillas get soggy. Now theyre putting them on top of your pizza. The taco pizza has chicken and taco seasonings and the cheeseburger has beef and a ketchup mustard sauce. Three different cheeses on top and if you want to risk it all, theyre 12 bucks each. I feel like this goes. You dont feel like it goes . No. I dont. They you want ketchup and mustard on a pizza sph. You want a burger but you dont want it to be soggy. You have to do what you have to do. Is that a real problem . Yes. Mike, you have to break the tie on this one. Im with you, reggie. Im sorry, kumasi. The italian, even just the italian in me and the backlash from my family is like, dont even go there. A pie is a pie. A hamburger is a hamburger. A taco is over here. They dont its 2020. No. No entanglement on my all right. Lets focus on the weather. That was fun. Good luck dominos and those who buy those. One Lightning Strike in auburn about four hours ago otherwise the threat that thankfully really didnt materialize yesterday continues to move away from us. See that swirling mass just to our southwest, thats the remnants of genevieve and thats bringing us the southeast to northeast upper level winds and why so much smoke is blowing in that direction and undercutting that there you go from the Golden Gate Bridge. You see you have the marine layer and temporary reprieve for today. We have unhealthy air, at least the next two days according to the management district and im saying theyll probably have to extend that and 80 in sunnyvale and 86 in san jose and 91 in gilroy and spread down in the south bay. 74 at millbrae and 78 in redwood city and palo alto. On the peninsula 62 to 65 the peninsula coast. Look at the upper 60s. Spot on. 67 in downtown San Francisco today and 78 in san rafael and then you get into the low to mid 80s through most of the north bay valleys and then we have at richmond and 75 in oakland and some 80s around union city and down towards fremont and about 87 to 92 in our east bay valleys. Tomorrow well wake up to just about the same conditions as today and that will translate into pretty much the same conditions during the afternoon hours and then you can see the air quality tries to improve a little bit, but its dwgoing to get hotter and drier thursday all the way through monday. Have a good one. Back to you guys. Happening today, ttate to health offk n fter gerr wsom hinted some bay area counties could be coming off the states watch list. I encourage San Francisco its made some progress, progress being made across the spectrum on hospitalizations, icus and Positivity Rate, particularly over the sevenday period. And continuing vigilance in this very difficult period. The states sevenday Positivity Rate has dropped to 5. 6 . And napa county was removed from the watch list last week. Health Officials Say the most effective masks t protect yours from the wildfires and from covid19 are the surgical masks and the n95 masks. The centers for Disease Control and prevention is boosting its supply of the flu v vaccine this year. Between 194 million and198 million doses will be given out nationwide in the next few months. Thats about 20 million more than last year. The cdc is hopeful that if enough people get the vaccine this year, it could stop a situation where hospitals are filled with flu and covid19 patients at the same time. New this morning, a little good news. In Southern California, they are turning the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity to help others. So this is Annie Griffith and sariana and they founded down for dance in 2017. The organization empowers those with down syndrome to build a stronger sense of self through dance classes. Look at this man right here. Yes. Most in 16 states. Nown how coe to twurk. Really, friend. No. Ive never really gotten into it. I never have been instructed on how to do it. Im always amazed when i see people do it. And that man, i feel like, is way beyond. He had skills. Yeah. Yes. But, friend, i believe in you. You have all the, you have all the moves and im surprised that this we need a video. This might inspire me. Was that a bounce . Was that a clap . He didnt want to hurt him. Eyerent ready. They werent ready. They werent ready for that. I love him and i love that whole thing. Look, we have actually had good news today. I know, it feels really good. More containment of these fires. It seems like there is hope on the horizon. I feel good about what were able to deliver. Mother nature is helping us out. This is good. Bounce to that. Weve always made quality furnishings for the many people. And when we sell many of them, we make them more affordable. To us, that just makes sense. 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Only santa rosa and San Francisco and oakland and san jose have decent air and everybody else has unhealthy air this morning and that will continue as we head into tomorrow. I wouldnt be surprised if our spare the air alert is extended past wednesday when the bay area air Quality Management district updates their forecast. Number five. We are experiencing some visibility issues for our commuters this morning. We have a fog advisory for the Golden Gate Bridge right now. Also just be careful in the north bay along the peninsula and in the south bay. Weve got that mix of fog and smoke in some areas. Number six. Today is day two of the Republican National convention. First Lady Melania Trump will deliver a speech from the white hose gard. The convtion tonight a on ment has signed a new deal with an English Soccer Team and i see, friend, you are here for this. Nothing wrong with a good morning, america. Boiling point. Rioters clash with police overnight in wisconsin torching buildings and vehicles, outraged over the shooting of jacob blake. Police fired multiple shots into the black mans back, his children just feet away. More peaceful protests about the shooting taking place across the country. The latest this morning on the investigation. The familys attorney joins us live. The Republican Convention center stage joined by a parade of speakers touting his leadership on the economy and fighting the coronavirus and presenting a dark picture of what a biden hy would mean for the country. Its almost like this election is shaping up to be church, work and school versus rioting, looting and vandalism. Former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley joins us