Hollowway says eight windows were smashed during the protest of jacob blake. She says she understands the bigger picture, the fight for social justice, but she says such attacks hurts Small Businesses many which are minority owned and operated. This cleanup will cost them 7,000 plus lost revenue. My Business Partner is black. All the people that work with us are women, so were trying to be a really positive part of the community. They actually through a fire extinguisher through the Second Office window. I actually wasnt that upset. If this is what it takes for everybody in america to love each other, im okay with it. Im okay with it. I just wish they knew who was behind those windows. Reporter tina is the office manager. She says the property manager wa security footage which shows the protest was peaceful except for a few who allegedly trailed behind. It was a small segment of people outside of the group that was protesting that came and did the damage. Reporter after everybody had walked by. Yes, they separated themselves from the group is what they saw on the cameras. Reporter the staff says these are tough times but they refuse to be distracted from the real issue. The cleaning, the repair is minor inconvenience. The greater conversation needs to be the protection and what can we do to advance the conversation that black and brown bodies are safe. Today the wisconsin state attorney general identified the Kenosha Police officer who shot jacob blake. Authorities say officer Rusten Sheskey is 7year veteran of t officers tased blake after they responded to a domestic incident. Pl blakes attorneys have said he was there to break up an incident. He was trying to get into the car where his children waited. Officer Rusten Sheskey fired his Service Weapon seven times. Officer sheskey fired the weapon into mr. Blakes back. No other officer fired their weapon. The community in kenosha braces for a fifth night of protest after murder charges were announced for 17yearold kyle rittenhouse. Investigators say cellphone video shows rittenhouse firing on demonstrators killing two and injuring another. A video also shows rittenhouse walking towards officers with his rifle after the shooting happened. Poice did nothing. He was arrested the following day in his home state of illinois. Protests over the shooting are gaining attention partly because pro athletes are taking part in their own protesters. Theyre not playing games. Abc 7 sports director larry beil is live with the details. Players refusing to take the court, refusing to take the field, weve seen that all over the country in the past few days in response to the shooting in wisconsin. Start with the nba and the bucks because thats where all this began. Nba players decided this morning they will continue to play. There was talk of shutting down the season but the playoffs will continue in the Orlando Bubble and so will the emphasis on social justice and the black lives Matter Movement. More games were postponed today. The giants and the dodgers they sat out last night, but they did play a doubleheader today. Really athletes from all the bay area teams are united in their message. Weve been trying all kinds of things and were not seeing enough action. Everybody was onboard. This a serious problem, and, you know, being able to have these Uncomfortable Conversations is where it starts. We obviously understand that the world is a bigger place than the baseball field, and when events of the world are overflowing onto the baseball field we dont have control over that. I think the thing that was most enlightening about aly conversations happened high around the clubhouse. Now that theres cameras and stuff out there people see it a lot more which is why i truly believe it will eventually change. Its not happening fast enough obviously. This is all about the racial inequalities that weve seen and have taken place, and its not acceptable. And it has to change and its time to change. Whos who of bay area sports there that mop taj. The warriors not in the bubble playing but they did tweet this message saying enough is enough. A source connect today the nba tell me players are going to pressure owners to make political changes, and theyre going to push for Actual Police reform. One item on the agenda that will be immediate they want nba to open up their arenas. But espn mark spears reported only 20 of the players in the bubble are actually registered to vote. Thats an easy one to fix. And if youre going to preach, hey, we want everybody to vote, everybodys got to be registered obviously. Yeah. Such a great point, larry. So anything accomplished from this really do you think . Yeah, i think a number of things. One, the players learned really how much power and leverage they have. Theres hundreds of millions of dollars on the line here for the players and the league. And a lot of billionaire owners are going to feel the kind of pressure they have never felt before because many of them will be forced to go against their preferred political leanings shall we say. And look, the consequences are obvious. If you have a star player like lets say yoenis with the Milwaukee Bucks and hes unhappy with the situation and doesnt feel like things are changing hes out, and suddenly your whole franchised is devastated. So the players i think they realized they knew it before but more than ervin a era of player empowerment they want to see yoenis and lebron. More coming up in sports. Players are calling their action a boycott, others say it meet the definition of a strike. But whatever you call it would have been really unthinkable 10 years ago maybe even five years ago. Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas shows how some pro athletes had a long time civic leader view. Reporter Bill Cartwright played 15 seasons in the nba, 16 with the chicago house Chicago Bulls teams of the late 80s and early 90s. He says pro sports has never seen anything like this, nobody has. Ive got friends of mine who are shocked, and im saying to them this has been going on for a long time. Where haveoubeor t police shog of jacob blake in wisconsi has tapped into a deep well of pain and anger for todays pro athlete. Thats why every nba team scheduled to match up in the first round of the nba playoffs decided yesterday not to play. Thank goodness that were fighting. Thank goodness that we have guys who are not afraid to put themselves out there. Reporter and its not just basketball. Several Major League Baseball teams with games today decided to take the day off and protest including the giants and the as. Former nfl pro bowl defensive end turned activist Michael Bennett took part in a live stream today called rise up for justice. These athletes know the power they have with their voice and being able to articulate what they really mean and care for and what their principles are. Reporter in the past fear of losing their jobs and millions of dollars may have kept athletes especially athletes of color from going public. But former San Francisco mayor and civil rights attorney willie brown says those days are gone. And im just pleased that the compensation comp pone want no longer retards people who need to speak out from speaking out. Reporter Major League Soccer and the wnba have now joined the boycott with other leagues and it may not end there. Eric thomas, abc 7 news. And please remember if youre dealing with issues of racial or social injustice we want to help you find an ally. Go to abc7news. Com takeaction for a list of local resources. Wildfires continue to burn all around the bay area. The flames have taken out homes. Today we sat down with one woman who lost everything. Im Laura Anthony in fairfield where a beloved Animal Sanctuary is already on the road to recovery. The weather conditions are helping the fire containment effort but the air quality is still poor. Ill have the accuweather forecast coming up. And you can follow fires statewide. Check in to see where fires are spreading, the acres burned and see containment information in for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Grubhubs gonna reward you for that with a 5 off perk. doorbell rings [crowd] grubhub fireworks exploding taking a live look outside you can see the improvement in our air quality compare today a few days ago when wildfire smoke was just smothering the bay area. Despite how good it looks keep in mind a spare the air alert is in effect for today through sunday. The csu complex burning in seven counties saw a big improvement overnight thanks to temperatures and light winds. Cal fire says it is now 35 contained. Assistant chief tim earnst gave an optimistic view this afternoon. While weve not yet contained the bottom edge of the fire we do anticipate doing that fairly soon which will then lead just this major piece open here which we hope to address with some those defensive strategies. All quite encouraging today. Some of the defensive strategies hes talking about includes setting backfires which he says could send a lot of smoke in the air as a down side. Cal fire says evacuations remain in place across all seven counties. On this map the evacuation zones are shown in red. Thats where people have to leave. The evacuation warnings are shown in yellow. Those are not mandatory but advised. In green thats where people are allowed to return home. The Evacuation Order for most of the town of guerneville was downgraded to a warning. Earlier today cal fire talked about the trouble spots as well as the extra help thats coming from the National Guard. We have 12 crews and roughly 16 personnel per crew, so that is good really for us and were going to be utilizing those National Guard crews as best we can. The complex grew by 8,000 acres overnight and 33 contained. More than 368,000 acres have burned in spots between Solano County and the coast. 30,000 structures are still threaten asked more than a thousand have been destroyed. A beloved animal structure was one of the structures destroyed by the fire but the people who own that ranch are celebrating survival. Laura anthony has our story from Solano County. Reporter if youve lost so much lucky is a relative turn. Its been a week since complex i said you need to come home, code three now. Reporter with the help of solano cart, a local Animal Rescue group the couple got almost all of their animals out including threelegged sheep annie. Today annie and more than 100 of her companions are safe and well. On a fairfield property a local teacher offered as a temporary home. Just to know that we rescued all the animals out of there and got everyone safely out of there with the exception of a cat that is still missing i believe is a survivor and well find her, is amazing. Reporter here the couple tend to their animals. To be welcomed into this family. The Group Includes todd who was missing for four days until he was discovered wandering alone. Now a week later with nearly all their animals accounted for. Theyre really starting to know they are the lucky ones. Were going to rebuild and get even better and were going to be able to reach out to more animals in need and make sure we live up to our promise to the ones we have right now its their forever home. Reporter in fairfield, Laura Anthony, abc 7 news. Some of the tens of thousands of evacuated residents in santa cruz and san mateo counties are allowed to return home. Cal fire lifted the much of San Mateo County and parts of Santa Cruz County including skau including scotts valley. Many other Evacuation Orders are still in effect as more than 23,000 structures are still threatened. 445 homes have been destroyed most of them in Santa Cruz County. The czu complex has burned more than 80,000 acres and more than 21 contained tonight. On this map the green zone is where people are allowed to return home. The area in red is where the Evacuation Order remains in effect. One woman lost her home to the czu lightening complex and now her family is braving the risk of coronavirus staying with her elderly parents because they have no other choice. Abc 7 reporter chris reis on what gives her hope and courage to move forward. Beautiful original glass in the windows so charming. Now youll understand why this moment was so delicate. She gave us permission to drive by her house in boulder creek. This is the first time shes seeing a video of whats left behind. Thats it. We loved it so much. It was my husbands and my first home purchase together. We love everybody on that street. We love where our house is. It was such a special house and it can never be replaced. Reporter i asked her how she knew right away it was her house just from glancing at the rubble. Because everythings so familiar. Its just covered in ashes. Reporter megan, her husband and two kids are now staying with her parents in los gatos. Adding to their stress, staying covid19 safe. My parents are in their 70s and it was not my first choice to come here. Reporter they made the choice because it could be months before she can go back home. Her neighbors lost their house too and so many others in boulder creek. The roads are still closed so she hasnt been able to see the burned remains in person. I dont want to go. I want to go but i dont want to go. We just pray for the whole community and just hope that we all get through the hseas month w rserfamily, and so through hr tears also the conviction to rebuild. Yes i want to build a new story, and i dont want to give up. And the only way that i can see to do that is to keep ongoing in the same area on the same property. Reporter in los gatos reis for abc 7 news. Lets get to Spencer Christian and find out the latest. The skies looking a bit bluer. We still have smoke hanging around. Let me take you to the lnu complex fire. Its 78 degrees near guerneville and 92 near lake hennessy. The wind is relatively light, though. Thats good news. Little farther south at the woodward fire wind gusting only to 10 miles per hour, relative humidity way up, and its cool there. Only 52 degrees. Another location and its relatively cool there as well and the wind again is light. So the weather elements are helping with fire containment right now, although it is still quite breezy. We dont have powerful gusts across the bay area, but wind speeds about 12 to 20 miles per hour. Heres a look above the bay. Its 60 degrees here in San Francisco, 67 in oakland, 80 gilroy, 57 at half moon bay. You see smoky air looking toward the downtown area of oakland from the emeriville camera right now. 73 san rafael, napa 70. Mid80s at fairfield and concord, 81 at livermore, and a beautiful view from mt. Tam looking at indeveloping marine layer. These are our forecast features. Well have hazy sunshine again tomorrow. Itll be warmer tomorrow afternoon, and well have our spare the air alert in effect through sunday. Heres a look at the air quality forecast. Well have the poorest air quality the next three days in the north bay, and itll be moderate just about everywhere else, and by monday we expect moderate air quality across the entire region. Overnight we wont have a very deep and vigorous marine layer but itll be there. 5 00 tomorrow morning we dont expect it to be very dense, so it shouldnt be too much of an impediment for morning commuters, and then itll fall back to the coastline giving us a mainly sunny day although hazy over the bay and inland. Overnight look for temperatures ranging from low 50s along the coast and see low to mid50s in the north bay but upper 50s to near 60 in the inland east bay. And tomorrow under hazy sunshine and breezy conditions. Look for highs of 64, half moon bay, 68 stran. Mid70s oakland and san mateo, farther south itll bow in the low 80s. The inland east bay will be our toastiest region with highs in the low to mid90s. 82 san rafael, up to 95 at cloverdale, and heres the accuweather seven day forecast. Breezy and cooler on saturday. A sharp cool down will occur in our inland areas from friday to saturday. We have poor air quality through sunday. So still some smoke impacts through the weekend. And then we get cooler air quality and a warmer weather pattern monday and tuesday with warm temperatures inland climbing to the upper 90s. Mid80s around the bay shoreline and temperatures will moderate going to the middle and latter parts of next week. Stay with us here. Only about a month remains to complete the 2020 census. Have you done yours yet . Next a look at the extra effort theyre going to in the and geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Data collection efforts for the 2020 census are set to conclude by the end of september. Thats why communities across the country are racing to get residents to complete those questionnaires online. But in Santa Clara County the stakes are even higher with its diverse population. Abc 7 News Reporter chris winn has the story from san jose. Reporter with a little over a month left until the 2020 census deadline census takers in Santa Clara County are making the final push to deliver an accurate count. Roughly 25 of house loelds still have yet to respond many of whom are in the hispanic and latinx communities. I think there been a lot of fear generally based on a lot of antiimmigrant rhetoric by this administration. People have been hiding for so long the last thing they want to do is fill out a form that explains exactly what their living situation is. Reporter thats why nonprofits are working with organizations to send canvassers into neighborhoods that have been historically uncounted. The things that makes us diverse also creates a challenge when it comes to actually reaching out to people and explaining to people why participating in the census is so important. Reporter today this group went doortodoor in East San Jose dressed in easily identifiable tshirts and with ipads in hand. Over the past 3 years the county has spent 6 million to fund its Census Program calling it a worthy investment. We have an opportunity to have better schools, better hospitals, Better Public Services like libraries, better roads. Reporter the all Important Message that every person counts. Youve got to go to my 2020 census. Gov. This is for your children, for your next generation living here, and our next will only be in the next ten years. So get it done today. Reporter in Santa Clara County, chris winn, abc 7 news. Coronavirus is changing Disaster Relief. Im michael finny. Well talk about that coming up on 7 on your side. And next, a sneak peek at whats in store for the fourth and final night of the Republican National convention along with some bay Area Reaction inflammation in your eye might be to blame. Ck, looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Ha these drops probably wont touch me. Xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. Common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation. Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. After using xiidra, wait 15 minutes before reinserting contacts. Got any room in your eye . Talk to an eye doctor about twicedaily xiidra. I prefer you didnt xiidra. Not today, dry eye. Its the final night of the Republican National convention which includes a speech from President Trump himself. This wraps up two weeks of political showcasing by both parties, and of course there have been some strong partisan differentiates. Absolutely. Each side accusing the other of what might be called creative interpretations. Were going to break down some that target the bay area specifically but first lets go to liz kreutz with a look at what to expect from President Trump speaking on the republicans biggest night tatonight. The president s speech also comes during a c aftermath of hurricane laura and the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Its unclear if the president will specifically mention blakes name tonight but his Campaign Said he will call for an end to violence. Hell also deliver blistering attacks on his opponent joe biden continuing to frame him as a left wing extremist. In fact heres an excerpt from his speech tonight. Hell say at no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas. At the Democrat Convention you barely heard a word about their agenda. Thats not because they dont have one, its because their agenda is the most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee. The democrats are fighting back with counter programming. Senator harris delivered a speech this afternoon criticizing the president s response to coronavirus. And the tragedy in all of this is it didnt have to be this bad. Just look around. Its not like this in the rest of the world. And two other things were also watching tonight. One, a potential protest outside the white house of people hoping to drown out the president s speech. And also masks. The president is expecting 1,500 people at the white house tonight. Weve seen pictures already of the setup and crowds. Attendees were not required to get a test, and there appears to be little social distancing and very few masks, dan. Okay, liz, thanks very much. Another interesting night. Live abc Network Coverage oof the Republican NationalConvention Begins next. It runs from 7 00 until 8 00 p. M. Kimberley gillfoils speech included some statements that upset the Puerto Rican Community in the bay area, and theyre not shy about sharing their opinions online. Leanne melendez did some fact checking. Reporter heres the part of her speech that has Many Puerto Ricans reeling with anger. S a first generation american i know how dangerous socialist agenda is. My mother was a special Education Teacher from puerto rico. My father also an immigrant came to this nation in pursuit of the american dream. Reporter so lets break it down. She says as a first generation american i know how dangerous their socialist agenda is. How would she know . Puerto rico has never been a socialist country. Weve always participated in whatever Economic System the u. S. Subscribes to. So in this case were also participating on capitalism. Reporter born and raised in puerto rico whos now a phd candidate at uc berkeley. My mother mercedes was a special Education Teacher in puerto rico. My father also an immigrant came to this nation in pursuit of the american dream. Ashley is a College Student at cal state hayward who also migrated from puerto rico. We are american. And were not immigrants from a different country. We are the same country. You dont immigrate when you come from hawaii. You dont immigrate here. You just move to a different part of your country. But Many Puerto Ricans feel like second class citizens because those on the island are not able to vote in the general president ial election. Social Media Outlets lit up with people trying to correct gillfoil. Congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez tweeted the woman the gop picked as their proud latina to tout immigrant experience didnt seem to know puerto rico is part of the united states. Puerto ricans who took offense to the speech say they hope this will be a teachable moment for gullfoil. And now to Vice President mike pence. He mentioned oakland last night but left out some important context to the deadly shooting of a federal officer. Abc 7 reporter Melanie Woodrow has that story. At the Republican NationalConvention WednesdayVice President mike pence paid tribute to Law Enforcement including federal Police OfficerDavid Patrick underwood. People like dave patrick underwood, an officer in the department of homeland securitys federal protective service who was shot and killed during the riots in oakland, california. Reporter underwood wasnt in the streets of oakland the night afrts sarge want steven curio is accused of shooting and killing him. He was workings a contract Police Officer for the department of homeland security. He was guarding the ronald v delhams federal building. Its context that may have been lost by Vice President pence last night who may have been listening to the curio along with his allegedplace used the unrest that night as a cover. Theres no evidence these men had any intention to join the demonstration in oakland as some of the media have asked. They came to oakland to kill cops. Pat underwood was murdered because he wore a uniform. He wore that uniform to signify his authority to protect the federal courthouse. Reporter curio was also facing charges in connection with the earlier murder of santa cruz sheriffs deputy. Melanie woodrow, abc 7 news. Protests continue against Police Brutality and in solidarity with jacob blake who was shot by a kenosha, wisconsin, Police Officer. Oakland police say about 600 or 700 people gathered last night. There were reports of graffiti, broken glass and small fires set by protesters. Today Business Owners and employees spent the day sweeping up broken glass and cleaning the damage. Wisconsins governor held a News Conference in kenosha to address the protests. It gives me great hope that at the end of the day when this is over people of kenosha are ready to make lives better. Protests last night in wisconsin were far more peaceful than the night before when three protesters were shot by a 17yearold with a rifle. Two of them were killed. Lets move on and get you uptodate now on the bay area fires starting with the czu lightening complex fire burning to the south and east of the bay. Cal fire says with 75 containment theyre narrowing their efforts to the south and west sides of this massive, massive fire thats burned 368,000 acres so far. To the north the lnu complex fire is nearly the same as the szu complex fire. Cal fire says the highest priority is the rough terrain near middleton in lake county and the wallridge fire in sonoma county. National guard crews are out on the fire line as well. This blaze is 33 contained. And the czu contained tonight. The structural lost was mainly here on the coastal area. But it is very noticeable once you drive on highway 1 and look up and from the air you can see quite a bit of destruction to that area. 646 structures have been lost. Evacuations remain in place. Now, with all the wildfires fema has hit the ground running. But in a different way from before. 7 on your sides michael finny is live with that story to explain exactly, michael, what is different. Reporter dan, youve covered a ton of disasters and ive covered some of them with you and you know it is always a welcome sight when fema shows up and starts setting up. Sure something bad has happened but now some help has arrived. Well, this year that help is changing. We know fema well here in northern california. During our busy fire seasons the embers are still glowing when fema professionals are setting up shop. Taking applications for grants and low cost loans. This year its a bit different. With coronavirus concerns the rollout of facetoface fema meetings has taken a back seat to telephone, app and webbased applications. The online registrations are significantly higher, about 49 of our intake of the 2,600 applications that weve had so far since the declaration. 47 have dm from the mobile app people are using on a tablets and their cellphones to register. And were getting 7 using telephones. Reporter nearly everything they can do in person can be done on the fema app or website. Nonetheless fire zones will soon be seeing fema mobile disaster units, and fema will start partnering with the state for other physical locations. But the social distancing will continue with virtual damage inspections. We will be making a phone call to the homeowner saying can you describe the damage to us, can you send us the photo of the damage, and we will accomplish that inspection that way. Now, eventually some of those inspections will be made in person. Now, if you need information about fema, where theyre setting up, whether you would be covered by Disaster Relief go to our website, abc7news. Com. Im michael finny, 7 on your side. All right, michael, thank you. Here at abc 7 we work on building our health is a major part of building a better bay area and new numbers about coronavirus in california continue to show reasons for optimism. The number of new cases is lower than average, and the number of hospitalized patients continues to drop. Coronavirus claimed 143 lives in the most recent 24hour period. A number that is above average. In all 12,550 californians have died from coronavirus since all of this started. Two bay area counties, napa and santa cruz have come off the watch list meaning coronavirus activity is within thresholds set by the state. All other local counties remain on the list. Tomorrow both alameda and Contra Costa County will allow new Outdoor Activity that include hair and nail salon operations. Bay area concert venues will be lit up in red next week. On september 1st the bill graham civic auditorium, city hall, chase center and several others will take part in an effort to raise awareness about the plight of the entertainment industry. Concert promoter another planet says entertainers, musicians and all the people who put on concerts, ballet, symphony and all the performing arts have been hurting. Weve been severely impacted by the pandemic. When our industry shutdown it was one of the first things to go. Gathering large groups of people together, and it will certainly be one of the last things to return. Theyre calling it a hashtag red alert restart, and theyre asking people to post on social media and write to their congressional leaders. 59 Silicon Valley leaders, many of them ceos took a paige out of our building a better bay area initiative. They created a seven page action plan called building a Better Normal after the pandemic. Abc 7 reporter david louie explains how some of the issues are nagging ones that predate the pandemic but there seems to be a new sense of commitment to solve them to rebuild the economy. Empty tech parking lots make it clear this is the new normal for now. The employees furloughed. 59 ceos and leaders of community, labor and nonprofit groups have created a 73page action plan to rebuild the regions economy. Key issues theyve identified are uniform covid19 testing to allow companies to reopen, help for laid off workers, addressing Housing Needs and help for Small Businesses. Forget the National Debate over how much testing to do. Testing and Contact Tracing have to be done by everyone to make return to work safe. What were encourage ing is partnership between the larger business and corporations to partner with the medium and small spaced businesses out there in the community to help them stand up to protocols and procedures. Reporter Small Businesses from restaurants to Tech Startups need capital to get back on their feet and create jobs. Its remmed a Small BusinessInvestment Fund be created by a publicprivate partnership. While the cities themselves cannot put in money but they certainly can put some sunshine on the effort and we do need to supply more capital. Reporter and help is needed for low income workers. Job training because the economy has changed, and renewed efforts to prevent evictions and to build affordable housing. The consensus is work has now changed, and some jobs will not be coming back, so we actually have to be thinking about reskilling displaced workers not just for the next 6 months, 12 months but for the longterm. Reporter who pays for this and setting longterm and shorter term priorities are left to more discussion. David louie, abc 7 news. More to come here. Next the latest on hurricane laura which made landfall overnight as a category 4 storm devastating parts of texas and louisiana. And well check on our local forecast. Spencer has a string of spare for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Grubhubs gonna reward you for that with a 5 off perk. doorbell rings [crowd] grubhub fireworks exploding damage assessments are under way iptexas and louisiana following a direct hit from hurricane laura, the most powerful storm to hit the region in 164 years. Laura left a destructive and deadly path after coming ashore overnight with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. The storm is responsible for at least four deaths including a 14yearold girl. Her house was hit by a falling tree. More than 700,000 people in louisiana and texas are without power. Good samaritans are now spreading out in the region doing what th c to help neighbors in the hardest hit areas. Were going to go ahead and try to make a rescue trip out there so theyre notlong as then past storms. Were from houston and we wanted to come out and lend a hand where we could. This evening all eyes on whats being described as a potentially dangerous fire in west lake, louisiana. So scary and very sad to see all the devastation there. It is. Its terrible. This was such a huge storm, spencer, category 4. Not just powerful but enormous. It was massive. At one point in fact it measured about 400 miles across. So it was a massive storm and produced, you know, the huge storm surge that was dangerous and deadly and it continues to be a dangerous storm even though its weakened now to a Tropical Storm. Let me give you a look at a looping satellite image. Now actually its about to lose its Tropical Storm ranking and drop to tropical depression strength. However, it still will have gusts that reach and exceed Tropical Storm strength up to 55 to 65 mile per hour gusts likely with the storm as it now moves out of northern mississippi into western tennessee and parts of western kentucky. Continues to move at a rate of aboutleer hour towards the eastnortheast. And this is its expected pact as its downgraded to a tropical depression later tonight. Itll move eastward over kentucky, virginia and west virginia, and it stays on that track then out to sea by saturday, but it still has the potential for producing widespread flooding. Meanwhile back here in the bay area weve got calm conditions and favorable for fire containment. Heres a look at our overnight movement of the marine layer. Its going to push up against the coastline and push locally out over the bay tonight and pull back over the coastline giving us a fairly bright day tomorrow and inland. Meantime nighttime conditions and hazy still. Overnight low temperatures will be in the low 50s near the coast, mid50s around the bay shoreline and upper 50s to low 60s inland. And then tomorrow look for another day of hazy sunshine, a bit warmer than today with inland highs in the mid90s, low 80s around the bay, some mid70s there as well. Mid60s on the coast. And we have a spare the air alert in effect through sunday even as the air quality improves a little bit. So heres the accuweather seven day forecast. Once we get through the weekend well see air quality improving and temperatures rising back into the upper 90s inland on monday and tuesday. Nothing wrong with a bit of summer heat as long as the air qualitys good. Dan and ama. All right, thank you so much, spencer. Onto sports director larry beil. Larry, once again the sports world intersecting with Current Events in a big way. Lutesly, dan. Reaction from the sports world as teams protest social good evening. After postponing last nights game in support of the plaque lives Matter Movement the giants and dodgers played a doubleheader today. Unfortunately the giants in the opener had to face clayton kershaw. A black lives matter message on the scoreboard at oracle park. Justin turner crushes this deep to center field. A great leaping catch to rob a home run right there. Unfortunately, nobodys catching this. A. J. Pollack a two run blast. Kershaw went six and fanned four of these double headers. Onto game two for gabe capler and the giants. No score for the giants. Zack peter gets ahold of some high heat, and that is gone for the pride of palo alto. Right now 20 l. A. In the seventh. The giants have not been shutout in a doubleheader since 1943. Spencer was there for that. As and rangers, they decided not to play today. Marcus simeon grew up in the bay area, went to cal. He knows the city of oakland will support the as and their push for equality. The city that we play in has a long history of fighting for what is right, and thats what we are trying to do here. And i feel like a lot of our fans will have our backs. Part of me thats like we can no longer stay silent. Its not a time to just push this stuff thats going onto the wayside anymore. These couple days are historic times in sports. Lot of confusion with the mets and marlins. At one point mets management suggested a onehour walk out then playing the game. And the players were not going to go for fid,hey stood for a 42second moment of silence. This was in honor of Jackie Robinson. Tomorrow is Jackie Robinson day so that made sense. Then they placed a black lives matter tshirt over home plate, and both teams left without playing. Mets first baseman Dominic Smith really emotional with everything thats going on. I mean, it was a players in the wnba theyve actually been at the forefront of the black lives Matter Movement. They postponed three of their games that were scheduled for today, and former Stanford Star said the plan now is to determine what the call to action will be after today. And that conversation is actually going on as we speak. Theyre in a bubble in florida. The nba players are in their own bubble at disney world in orlando. And so theyre going back and forth and discussing what kinds of changes they want to see, what they want ownership to do, management to do. And to try to come up with an agenda thats actually achievable, and well see where it goes. We should have those games those leagues returning whether its tomorrow or the weekend for the nba playoffs. Well see. But theyre trying to get something done and a consolidated message of unity. And well see exactly what comes out of that later on tonight. Dan, ama . Its unprecedented. Thank you very much. Join us tonight for abc 7 news at 11 00. 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