Hawaii. We have an update on the search for loved ones. The San Francisco agency is speaking out about the decision to have robo taxis take someone any time anywhere in the city. Abc7news starts now. Building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. Oh no. No, weve got to get out. The terrifying moments for a family escaping a wildfire and hiding out for three days after escaping the town. And what is the most devastating disaster since hawaii became a state. 80 people have been killed since they first started on the wildfire started on the island of maui. Flames continue to spread because of dry conditions and powerful winds. Melissa is in maui saying a emergency has been declared for the entire island. Melissa residents of the Historic Town lahaina, hawaii are allowed to return home after days of wildfires swept through leaving behind a path of destruction. We wanted to see what was left but there is nothing. Nothing, all gone. Melissa the wildfire overnight causing residents to evacuate. There were no warning sirens alerting people to evacuate, instead alerts went to cell phones, tvs radios nations. But power and cellular outages limited their reach. This family lost their home. No warning, we are supposed to get, you know on your cell phone evacuation notices and alerts. We got nothing. Melissa the flames tearing through this neighborhood. Her fathers spent decades building a multigenerational home and it is now can wheatley gone. There are things you think you will always have and things you think you will give to your children. Melissa the Community Coming together to help. Some bringing in water and by water ringing supplies to those stranded. Nurse practitioner hoping she can help. We are going to go check it out and help the people with burn wounds. Melissa people think it the fire, the flood, the tornado but it is the crisis in the aftermath. That is what we are here to do to look after the people. The elderly. Melissa fema is providing federal assistance but the lack of communication is making it difficult for families to reunite with loved ones that are missing. Melissa don, abc news maui. Zach the highway into lahaina reopen today. This morning and it stressed about a mile long of peoples sleeping in their cars waiting for the highway to reopen. Officers closed the highway yesterday after drivers tried to access restricted areas of the disaster zone. It is known as hawaii route 30 it the opening will allow residents and more help to get to the area. A below testable capturing the spirit of hawaii returned to the peninsula this weekend with relief efforts and prayers focus on the people of maui. We are live at the omaha a low half festival in san mateo. So many people with connections to the island they are. Cornell absolutely. We have heard so many stories and connections to maui and a firestorm tragedy. Now those at this festival are stepping up to help. Cornell a band of ukulele players dedicating a song to maui. Is a celebration of vi heritage and it is taking on a new five and mission. It reminds me of hurricane amici in 1991. We got together to help the people in hawaii. We have to rise to the occasion again and help them in maui this time. I knew that some of you have been affected by your family or friends in maui. Cornell sadly that was too true. It seems everyone we found in the festival has a personal connection to the maui firestorm tragedy. We have a friend that died. He died, he got burned. Cornell florida garcia do sues man is worried about her college mate family forced to evacuate. They are in the shelters unfortunately. Her fire was in the backyard. They had to take shelter in their sons school. Cornell the Hawaii Community foundation is collecting donations for maui relief area jeremy gave 100. I saw on the news what a disaster it is and they need help out there. Cornell airlines asking customers to donate their Airline Miles to transport red cross volunteers to maui. Were trying to donate our miles and our hearts are with the islands. Anything you can do would be great to help. Cornell the spirit of island remain steadfast at this festival reflected in food and dance. [indiscer cornell he grew up in lahaina is where his heart is. He returned to maui days before the wildfire started. He says the community is hurting but help is on the way. Give live back love back. This is special today because i think everyone is banding together to help out. Cornell yeah, a quick representatives from Hawaiian Airlines just told me in the past few days 10,000 Hawaiian Airlines customers have donated there i miles to relief efforts. The low half festival returning for the First Time Since when he 19. This weekend, so many people wanting to help. Live in san mateo, cornell barnard, abc 7 news. Zach thank you so much area nonprofit is helping with relief air efforts from maui. There is a drive at antiochs multicultural festival. They are for support will reach wildfire victims. For two members, the tragedy hit close to home. We are doing this because our family has been connected. We have close connection with people and now we we have to do something. We have family members that are hidden by this. We want to get back to the community and hope it makes a difference. Zach the collection efforts continue tomorrow in union city and san jose. You can find out more at lives and smiles. Org. If you would like to help with the alley relief effort you can make a donation to the American Red Cross right texting them with a number on the screen. Or you can call them 1800redcross. They are focusing on helping find shelter for evacuees. There are so many stories coming out of the maui fires. We gather together in one place for you and you can find them on the abc 7 bay area news app available wherever you stream. A 14yearold girl was critically wounded in a shooting at the antioch arena. Investigators to get happened when two groups got into a fight. Police started getting a call about gunfire around 3 00 this morning. The girl was driven to a Shopping Center in pittsburgh where someone called 911. There have been no arrests. No word on what started a fire that tore through an amended yielding in pittsburgh early this morning. Firefighters remained on the scene for much of the day, but they were pulled out because of collapse concern. No injuries were reported. Harsh criticism today in response to a vote approving driverless taxis in inferences go. The Fire Department releases eight meant it strongly disagrees with the decision and it goes on to say, quote we believe in ignoring the Public Safety and Emergency Response interference. These risks are not going to go away and they are increasing. They this past thursday, the Utility Commission voted to allow robo taxi to expand services across the city 24 7. It went into effect immediately. In the east bay, Community Members got their last chance to tell oakland leaders what is important for them in the search for the next police chief. It held the last two Public Forums today. They want the main focus to be on Public Safety, enforcing laws and policies. Oakland has been without achieve since february. Ron armstrong was fired after an investigation filed showing that he failed to hold some of his officers accountable for misconduct. The recommendation to mayor thao is expected by november. The biggest Music Festival in the bay area is happening right now. First look at this years outside lands festival. And the greenest county in california for electric cars is in the bay area. The county that has plugged in and the one car that is needing the charge. Its a little bit warmer it was yesterday. There is more warming weather on the im with it i gotta good feeling about this yeah, so lets get it im feeling good vibes zach one of San Franciscos biggest Music Festivals continues today. They expect over 200,000 people to attend. The foo fighters will per along with other performers. They ask everyone to use Public Transit because there is no parking but you can get ticket for shows this weekend going for about 500. Abc 7 very own dan ashley hit the stage today at outside lands to show you you missed if you did not make the show. She changes channels [indiscernible] theres too much screaming and finding fighting when there is work to do dan dan has zach lifelong passion for music. He released a new solo album called out they are. Search dan ashley music for more information. And barth is offering free rides to be bullheaded to outside lands for the south bay. Free ride will be available from 10 00 a. M. Until 2 p. M. Or until they run out at the station. The northbound trains in at millbrae because of construction. We got the scoop on outside lands you can find everything you need to know about the festival on our website maybe the seven news. Com. Write up abc7news. Com right on our homepage. And we checked out an event in San Francisco that prepares children for a new school year. Spencer we have hot weather coming our way. I will show you how long it lasts zach taking the lead of all electric car sales in the state of california. More than 43 of new car purchases in the county were zero emission vehicles. Tesla accounts for two thirds of all electric car sales in Silicon Valley area the governor announced that they must be electric by 2035. We had the Second Annual we are the village having out backpacks and School Supplies to scholars in the tenderloin. Any struggle with the cost many struggle with the cost of School Supplies this year and they hope they will help those in need. We want to make sure we are of service to the community. There is a beacon of hope amongst the housing and security food insecurity, oh youre use, we are here to support the community. Zach they raised almost 8,000 for the backpack giveaway double its original goal. It is a great day for a backpack giveaway for concerts and you name it. It has been wonderful. It has been nice out there. Spencer youre right it will remain nice and then it gets really hot. What we had was nice today was the lingering marine where layer that is on the coast line. It is rebuilding now giving us a gentle onshore breeze. Wind speed between 15 and 20 miles per hour. Nonetheless, it is warmer everywhere than it was this time yesterday especially inland areas eight or nine or 10 degrees warmer. A live view from sutro tower with a blue skies. 66 in the city, 73 oakland, 77 mount you, low and mid 80s in san jose and palo alto. We have low clouds and fog and an eyes breeze on the bridge right now. 81 napa, concorde. Looking across the bay from emeryville, you see the marine layer building. It will expand tonight. This is the forecast headlines with green layer expanding tonight bringing drizzle to the coast. You can have triple digit inland heat today through wednesday and a cooler pattern developing at the end of next week. A lot of drizzle offshore. A lot of it will move on shore near the coast overnight. By midday overnight and certainly in the morning we will have clear skies inland and it will warm up again. Overnight mid and upper 50s on the coast and bay. We see low 60s in the inland area which is warmer overnight. Speaking of overnight, if youre interested in looking skyward to check out the perseid meteor shower, the 100 will be between 11 p. M. And 5 a. M. Tomorrow night but we may not have good viewing conditions near the bay it is best to get away from city light. If youre inland and the sky is clear you get a nice view. I temperatures tomorrow mid and upper 90s. As we let me skip to the outside because that was showing todays forecast. I will show you tomorrow. Right now on the accuweather 7day forecast high temperatures move into the upper 90s. Inland tomorrow up to 100 or above. That is on monday, tuesday, wednesday. They heat eases thursday but it does not really cool down until next friday and saturday. But outside tomorrow much like today partly cloudy because the clouds linger on that side of San Francisco. A mild day a great day to go out and enjoy the music. Zach we have something to look forward to next weekend with temperatures continuing to go down. Think is so much. Chris is here. Chris we have new faces on sports. Coming up ons words we have individuals reuniting in las vegas. And bochy back in the bay. The coach recalling his time as the giant schipperke is back. tense music one aleve works all day so i can keep working my magic. Just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. Aleve. Who do you take it for . Are you looking at 4x4s on cars. Com again . No. Whenever you look at 4x4s, you turn into the version of yourself that drives a 4x4. I honestly dont know what youre talking about. Really . Really. I was thinking of something more sophisticated. Ahh fine, keep the beard. laugh 2 million cars for 2 million possibilities. Cars. Com where to next . So many hotels. [yells] [yells] [yells] trouble booking the family vacay . Come on. Comfort has free hot breakfast for the whole fam they have waffles and splendid pools cannonball now abc 7 scores with chris alvarez. Chris bochy made his return to oracle park last night. The fans giving much deserved standing ovation. San francisco currently 7. 5 games back from the dodgers. But they are the second in the wildcard spot. Rangers lead for the third time in all of baseball with the most wins. It is special. Being back in the ballpark. I cannot say enough about my tremendous time here. 13 wonderful years that my wife and i, we just had the time of our life here. We lived across the street forever grateful and thankful for those years. We had a lot of fun. A lot of great memories. A lot of great celebrations. It is good to be back. Chris good to see him that it is weird to see him and blue and red. There is practice for the raiders this week against the opening trey lance will start and play most of the first half. Sam darnall will play the second half. How about Jimmy Garoppolo now q1 for the raiders. No official word if he will lay her the team. The practice is a great time to evaluate the squad. Jimmy g. Also had a blast paying playing against his old buddies. It was fun. It was fun. We got things going right away and got talking. Those are my brothers, i love those guys. We had a good time out there. It is good to see old gemma. He looks healthy and good area talking about how everything is here and how he loves it and we miss them. Jimmy was unbelievable here. He has an unbelievable record every time he played and stayed healthy in the super bowl and the championship game. I hope no one [indiscernible] chris what an amazing sight i buffalo today. Damar hamlin suffered cardiac arrest in a game in january is allowed to lay again. He looked like a dude laying some football. Three tackles in a 2019 we win. What an amazing story after he almost died on the field. Pass the test, find a jersey, takes it in the stands, gives his mom a hug. What a goosebumps moment for him. And i dont think we met in person until today. We have other ship. Zach i was here last week but you were off. It is good to be here with you today. That is how it is in abc 7 we have people all over the bay area and once in a while we get to connect in person area and it is so much fun. Chris you are doing a great job. Zach thank you i appreciate it so much. What organizers say is the biggest annual festival of introducing togos new french dip sandwiches featuring fresh Artisan Bread piled high with tender roast beef, smothered with melty provolone cheese and served with hot au jus for dipping. Try the roast beef or pastrami french dips today only at togos this is abc 7 24 7. Live flex live in the south bay. Cleggs in san jose. Quakes live in oakland. In san jose. In san jose. Live in oakland. Zach welcome back. People enjoying the treasures of the Filipino American community. This is the 30th year of the behind festival in San Francisco. It was born out of the story of struggle. 4000 filipino families were displaced to make room for the Winter Gardens plana gardens it highlights the resilience and rich history of the filipino community. That is all the time we have four abc7news at 5 00 you back here for abc7news that the clock. Tonight, a special edition of world news tonight from maui. The grim reality of paradise lost, homes and lives gone in a flash. The toll is rising in the deadliest Natural Disaster since hawaiis statehood. Dozens killed and more than 2,00