Along a warning. And rain fell in several places. Very Strange Weather tonight. Good evening. Theres also report of a grass fire on mission peak. Its just a quarter acre and no homes are threatened at this point. So it doesnt look like itll cause any problems, but well stay on top of it. Drew, unusual. Craw, really for september we had so many lightening strikes with all the video and picture that viewers were sending in. It was really widespread. From 4 00 this afternoon until the current time, thats where we start to see the energy with the lightening begin. And then it works its way to through the heart of the region with several lightening strikes. Live doppler 7, weve still got some lithening and zooming right into San Francisco. Got a downpour, just a lightening strike moments ago in the sunset district. Over the bay right now we have numerous lightening strikes in the sky still occurring even at this hour. And we still have a couple of lightening strikes to our south that could likely work their way inland in the next hour or so. Into the north bay we have a shower working its way in. And just to the west of lucas valley. It looks like the tail end of the moisture is really starting to move through the south bay at this hour. Nonetheless, well still keep the storm impact scale tonight. Some lightening and gusty winds associated with the system moving through. So well talk about what happens after this storm moves out of here, when well finally find refreshing air in that full acuweather forecast. Now, we have lightening video ahead. And we put it together for ow on abc 7. Com. A surprise windstorm took down trees and power lines tonight. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie has a look at the damage. Reporter the gusts of wind woke up residents starting shortly after 2 30 this morning. The howling sound nothing like what they expected. It sounded like a mini hurricane. Nic like florida, but it was really windy and nothing ive ever heard before. Reporter dispatchers received a flurry of calls as people called about downed power lines and broken tree limbs. He planted this tree, but the tree has lost limbs to wind three years in a row. A cable has kept it from falling over. Luckily no cars were going by at the time. Reporter a retired firefighter found himself pressed into service when gusts of wind broke large limbs taonto a neighbors house. There are some punctures up here. This is the size of my leg. Reporter among the hardest hit communities were campbells and son jose. One tree on University Avenue in san jose displaced an active colony of bees. Their hive located inside a large limb. And a tree that fell outside Bowers Elementary School in santa clara posed littled damage. The school didnt fall on school property, so were okay. Well, irma is no longer a powerful hurricane. But the storms death toll just increased. A fallen tree hit and killed a man today in south carolina. 42 people have now died including in the caribbean, cuba and florida. An estimated 7. 2 Million People are without power tonight. About a third of the people in florida itself. And while some survivors in florida now surveying the damage, evacus from the florida keys have to wait for bridge and infrastructure inspections before they can return. We all just want to go home and see whats going on. Reporter its unbelievable. We had a lot of damage and cleanup. Irma is now a Tropical Storm stretching about 600 miles from east to west. Still a large system. It is affecting at least nine states particularly georgia, alabama, and the carolinas. Tonight families are desperate to get back home to see if they have a home. But Authorities Say right now its just far too much damage. Its just not safe. She flew over the destruction before witnessing the damage on the ground firsthand. Reporter tonight a look at the destruction in the florida keys. Cars tossed from the roads, buried under sand. Homes knocked right off their foundation. We saw the damage from above. We are flying over u. S. 1 right now. That is the road that is shutdown to residents who are trying to get back. The only way you can access the keys now is by air or by sea. Bridges now damaged, we see streets completely flooded. You see boats thrown upside down, roads ripped off and entire trailers or mobile homes demolished. On the ground in key west, a dplichls of that powerful storm surge that followed Hurricane Irmas landfall. Some buildings completely destroyed. Tonight much of the keys are without power or water. And when we reach marathon key, we see irmas wrath. Entire neighborhoods completely flattened. Looking down, it does look like a debris field. Some of them are completely destroyed. This piece of paradise now on a long road to recovery. Downed power lines, debris spilling onto the streets, it is going to be months and months before the town of marathon gets up and running again. There is so much damage to assess and begin to cleanup. Urban search and rescue crews from the bay area are in florida to try and help out. Reporter this cellphone video was taken in the Early Morning hours when Hurricane Irma had just started approaching tampa. She regrets riding out the storm. It was so loud. The tree outside my house kept hitting my roof, so we were thinkingtist going to come crashing into our house. And remind you i had 13 family members here. A little baby all the way up to my grandma. She said being cut off and not getting information while the wind howled for hours was terrifying. Now its over, theres trees and power lines down in many neighbors. We did have a generator, but like i said, it ran out of gas and no gas stations around us are open. Reporter the 129th has been waiting to spring into action. They left friday from florida. And this morning the unit members were called to survey the destruction. Heres video one crew sent to show video from the area. We can come up with the right game plan to provide the right level of search and rets cue is important. Reporter the rescue wing spokesman wasnt able to tell us how many search and rescues theyve performed because theyre preoccupied with the mission. Abc 7 news. Now, sky 7 captured an amazing rescue today, video youll see only right here on abc 7 news. Check this out. This couple was trapped in a cave at mussel rock park in dal daly city. A rescue swimmer was lowered down, made it to the cliffs mouth, made sure the couple was not seriously injured first. Strapped the wife in a harness and away she went to safety. The crew lifted her up out of the cave. She kept her head down. Once the firefighters were down, they were able to block the wind of the woman who was shivering. Goes back for the man and before he left the young man went back to thank his rescuers. Im great at this, dont worry about nothing. Put this on like this, strapped us in and took us right in. Pretty cool. The couple said they only had bumps and bruises. Thaifr just fine tonight. Thank goodness. Well, new developments on an encounter thats gone viral. Amassing thousands of dollars in donations and thousands of signature petitions. Cellphone video shows that officer taking cash out of the vendors wallet in the process of giving him a citation for not having the proper permit. Abc 7 News ReporterLaura Anthony spoke with the officer today. Reporter the vendor who had his cash taken by Uc Berkeley Police officer says he did not know what to think at the time, but he tried his best to just obey the officers orders. Translator well, that moment i was in a state of shock because of what was happening to me. I dont know how to explain it in a state of shock when i saw he was taking my money. Reporter we spoke with the officer to consider the full context of his interaction. And he emphasized the cash was taken only as evidence and in support of the citation. Uc Berkeley Scott says they will investigate. Nonetheless the man who shot the video, martin flores, told us he was appalled. He chose this one vendor who was selling hot dogs and an individual who was an easy target. The total is now approaching 40,000. To be quite honest with you, i want to get my permit and get my business going, do things right and make it official so i dont find myself in that situation again. Reporter uc police did issue three other warnings to unlicensed vendors at saturdays football game. Abc 7 news. A busy monday as you can tell. Stay with us, Pay Attention or you could end up paying a fine. Youre going to hear from the elected official who wants to make it illegal to walk and text at the same time. This threemonth old kitten is looking for her forever home. Only that will definitely be a step up from the place he was res cude. Youll get that story. And well, not ago california lawmakers took aim at distracted drivingmism first with talking on the phone then with texting behind the wheel. Well, tomorrow one local lawmaker plans to ache the First Step Towards curbing distracted walking. It is a growing problem, yes, but a controversial solution. Reporter how often do you cross the street while liking at your phone . Occasionally. Reporter in the city centers of silicon valley, its a fact of life. Do you use your phone when youre crossing the street the. All the time. Reporter what for . To text. Reporter people use their phones for everything. People get caught up in my phone. I in fact several years ago walked across the street and hit a pole. Reporter he knows the danger first hpd and wants to demonstrate the act he wants to make illegal. If you walk across the street, playing a video game or sending a text, itll be illegal. Reporter hes asking the state to consider it. This is about peoples safety. Reporter not not tat anyone disagrees this is dangerous. Its just that not everything dangerous needs to be illegal. There should not be a law against it, because were individuals and this is america and you need to make your own decisions in life. Let us live our lives and do our own things snch. In the 1980s when they passed the seat belt law, people said, hey. If there were a law, i would recognize more often that its dangerous or something i should not be doing. Reporter in fact its already illegal in hawn lieu law and fort borough, new jersey. Maybe they can create who when you go across the crosswalk beforehand, something that sends the message look up. Reporter in red wood, city, scrawnthen bloom, abc 7 news. Californias attorney general filed the latest lawsuit oagainst the Trump Administration today following the president s decision to end the daca program. By ending daca about 800,000 young people could eventually face deportation after being brought to the United States illegally as children. About a quarter of the american dreamers live in california. The best way to give them a chance to have a future in america the way they believed is to help preserve the daca program. I fwelt that the cloud that has once stood above me reappeared. Ending daca tops todays agenda when mexicos top diplomat met with governor jerry brown. People living in mexico make up the vast majority of the 800,000 covered by daca. A threemonth old kitten is in need of a loving home. This st. Prudence. Someone heard her cries for help coming from a bottom of a dumpster and pulled her out of it. Shes now available for adoption. Prudence has no collar or mike ch rochip. And the society believes she was left there deliberately. And posting this lightening strike in nevada. Our abc meteorologist drew tim is with us here. You know what, for the past week and a half a weve had the hottest day reported in San Francisco. Then it gets muggy, and then were seeing these showers typically on the east coast. That sky continue tuesday be active even tonight. Live doppler 7 weve still got some bolts to talk about. I want to zoom in. Its really kind of concentrated over the heart of the region. From San Francisco to daly city over hayward, Even Union City seeing some lightening. The strikes, though, live doppler 7 estimating 33 lightening strikes. And weve seen a time period earlier this evening where weve approached 100 lightening strikes in that same time period. Here we go. Zoom in a little closer. As you approach bris bane at this hour, two strikes already. Across San Francisco weve got lightening strikes. Also have some heavy rain right now. Thats that pop up of yellow and orange you see on your screen. We had some light showers over oakland. Those are pushing north towards burky. To the south we go, you do notice between the south of union city and hayward and towards the bay. Its a really active show. So folks you can definitely see that light show still happening in your night sky. Just got a tweet a moment ago from someone in san raffel. No lightening report at livermore and discovery bay. However, there is a chance of some light sprinkles reaching the ground. Earlier this evening you guys certainly got your fair share of lightening. That is all well to the north of the region. Have those scattered thunderstorms out there right now. And the biggest threat we have is that vivid lightening and a few areas of some gusty wind. Well take you through hour by hour. Future weather showing you still pockets of rain that will likely be giving us some lightening out there. And still not out of the threat of lightening. Thats probably about 1 00, 2 00 montana morning this system is going to make its qua offshore, quiet down and thatll set the stage for our tuesday morning. Its muggy, feel humid out there. Thats really fueling these Thunder Showers at this hour. And over night tonight, its going to be a mild night. Were going to hold in the 60s. And its going to feel muggy. San jose about 89 degrees. Same thing in fremont. Even enSan Francisco, its muggy, mild. 79. About 85 degrees. There is a chance in the afternoon. Once again you get that combo hit and humidity in the daytime, it there could be an isolated shower. Tonight there is still a chance tat one could pop up. And future tracker temperatures wednesday afternoon, we get rid of the humidity. The temperatures drop. This is going to feel very refreshing midweek. 60s, and 7 0z, and look at that our warmest spots are only in the low to mid80s. Showing you dropping depression irma right now. The National Hurricane center has issued its final warning for irma. Hurricane jose winds at about 85 miles an hour. That could be some trouble into the up coming weekend. Wednesdays all about the cooler air moving in. And then thursday, thats the pay off. Going to feel nice around here, and that sets the stage for a gorgeous weekend saturday into sunday. So really its right after midnight things will start to calm down. Size so humid. Coming up next, who finally won the lawsuit over that selfie taken by a mngy . Taken by a mngy . And did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. Get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only 34. 90 more per month. Call today. Comcast business. 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The nasdaq added 72 points. The s p went up 26. Sky 7 flew over apples headquarters in cupertino. Like apples new campus many features of the new iphone are shrouded in secrecy. The new iphone could cost at least 1,000, at least the top end model. The may include features like facial recognition, technology to unlock the phone, better camera, and if you forgot your charger, wireless charging. Tune in for that. Be very interesting. Stay with me. Up next, what this monster storm has left in its wake. And what the millions of people who have evicuted will likely find when they get back home. Find when they get back home. Also in remembrance ofhan60s so hungry pets across the country get to eat. Petsmart for the love of pets. And now Come Celebrate our grand opening in your neighbourhood. Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Dpooeng once again. Well begin this halfhour with irma as it continues its path north. The once category 5 storm has now weakened to a tropical depression but not before causing widespread devastation in the caribbean, most of florida and into areas of georgia. Many people will arrive in florida tomorrow to find no pow, no services and possibly an uninhabitable house to greet them. Marcy, great to see you. Certainly different circumstances than when we saw a last couple of days. That is true, dan. As bad as it looked last time when you see me, the mayor here saying this city dodged a bull. There wasnt the catastrophic damage. However, irma still destructive nonetheless. A final assault on the Sunshine State on its way up. What was Hurricane Irma sinking parts of jacksonville with record breaking floods. From north florida to the southern most point, damage left from coast to coast. Its devastating. Its devastating. Reporter people coming home to find homes like this one in naples under water. Trees up rooted. Mobile homes, airplanes, even the front of this senior homeli. Its unbelievable. Reporter more unbelievable images above the florida keys where irma first made landfall as a category 4. Some of the residents now just hours away from finally being allowed back home. It fills you with anxiety, and you just imagine the worse after seeing the some of the reports. Reporter they expected the worse, too on marco island. Irmas second direct hit. 10 to 15 feet of storm surge, and were grateful we were spared. Reporter a sentiment share bide so many floridians. The damage isnt as bad as we feared. Reporter though with so many without power. Were living like savages. Reporter more help is heading in. And theyre making some progress thanks to help from crews that came as far away as california. People still being told to be patient because could still be a few more weeks without power. Marcy, thanks so much. Great job there. As victims of Hurricane Harvey i should say irma continue to dry out, a richmond Restaurant Owner stepping up with a check of more than 13,000 for hurricane relief. Live at the restaurant as he handed over the check. He raised these funds by dedicating 100 of the restaurants net sales this past friday. And was joined by employees who gave an additional 350 out of their tips from that day. Very nice gesture. The nation paused to remember, the new york skyline lit up with two beams of light tonight where the twin towers once stood. The tribute of light is an art installation to remember the victims of the attack, of course. Always emotional. A moment of remembrance of those who died and the brave First Responders who saved lives. A solemn ceremony was held in union city to pay tribute to the lives lost when Airlines Flight 93 crashed on 9 11. 37 passengers and crew members died when the jetliner went down in pennsylvania in a field after being hijacked. The union city memorial was dedicated in 2007. Well, 16 years since the 9 11 terror attacks, never gets easier. Our coverage of how how the bay area remembers continues on the abc 7 news app when you have a few moments. Eating grains can reduce your risk of gettingrectical cancer. Its the first time the institute hasz linked wholegrains to a lower cancer risk. The report says eating about three servings of wholegrains daily reduces the risk of colon cancer by about 17 . Colo rectal cancer is the third most common cancer among both men and women. 16 of all californiaens diagnosed with cancer are currently being treated at five university of california centers. Now all five are teaming up to improve access and outcomes. Reporte im as healthy as you are maybe healthier. The five centers announced a new model for Cancer Research and treatment. So for example in the case of Clinical Trials instead of having one Cancer Center involved where sh the new model would strive for trials systemwide. By combining facilities, we can open up Clinical Trials in a much faster away cross the whole system giving patients more choice and a availability of treat. Now were going along together. Dr. Charles ryan is an ucf ontologist. It can identify patients for new therapies. This collaboration will help the entire system come up with a better strategy improve a patients outcome. By joining forces, the five centers will also work on Cancer Prevention programs at a much needed time. While cancer rates have declined significantly in the past 20 years, this years 176,000 people here in california will be diagnosed with some kind of cancer. We know we could potentially prevent 40 of all cancers. But were not very good in implementing measures to do this. 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The pilot sent to the hospital but reportedly had just minor injuries. Really as you can watch here, the tree really broke that planes fall. The outcome would have likely been worse if it had just hit the ground. A break through laz come to abc 7 news. Its called sky map 7. It is an eye in the sky really unlike anything else in the bay area. Alexa smith shows you how sky 7 works. Reporter when newsbreaks, you count on abc 7 news and sky 7 to show you whats happening. Fires in the east bay, floods in south bay, accidents in San Francisco. Now sky map 7 will identify where news happens by displaying roadways, roads and streets rights on the screen. It now includes realtime street Mapping Software and vision. The stateoftheart software gets you closer than ever before. To make sure you never lose sight of where newsbreak. Or zipping along the embarg dero in the city, sky map will help you navigate around hadderdous conditions like this house fire in san jose. You can even see what speed traffic is moving and pinpoint specific vehicles. Caught in a jam in lafayette, sky map 7 can show you. Using recent satellite imagery it can also show you what the area looked like before the blaze live. With sky map 7 youll no know exactly what is impacted when news happens. Whether its schools or businesses. Another reason why abc 7 news is your choice for breaking news. Alexa smith, abc 7 news. Pretty cool. Our meteorologist standby. Our meteorologist standby. Hes goinghan60 million meals so hungry pets across the country get to eat. Petsmart for the love of pets. And now Come Celebrate our grand opening in your neighbourhood. Lot of lightening tonight. From the south bay, and you may have seen several strikes as i said right behind me from the live picture. Meteorologist drew tuma is tracking it all. Drew. Weve still got several strikes out there tonight, dan. Its concentrated right over the pulens luand right over San Francisco. So a lot of folks in San Francisco talking about the light show happening right now in the night skies. Daly city, sunset, Richmond District and parts of San Francisco, the wider picture, look how many lightening strikes. 55 strikes in this vicinity. Voom in even closer, thats where you see the lightening strikes. Thats where the sky is lightening up tonight. Like the sunset district youre seeing that lightening from cloud to ground and hearing that thunder as well. The good news. This lightening is almost out of here. Really the south bay, much of the east bay were doing just fine. The lightening is out of here. Its really San Francisco and parts of the moran coastline. And thats going oo be pushing out in the next hour or so. Earlier tomorrow morning, by 12 30 in the morning, maybe just a downpour, and then it all quiets down. And thatll set the stage for a quiet start to your tuesday. But its still going to be mild. Its still going to be muggy. Were not going to lose that humidity unfortunately. So tonight well hold into the 60s tomorrow a humid day. Just a quick update, our next tropical threat were looking at jose right now is a category 1 hurricane with winds at 85 miles an hour. Kind of a loop to loop, and then it kind of sets its side on portions of the east coast. Still a wide area this thing could go. But something well be watching in the coming days. Tomorrow a chance of a slight shower. Thats really in the afternoon. Still a chance wednesday, and then everything changes wednesday afternoon. Youll feel the humidity drop. Cooler air moves in, and that sets the stage for a beautiful weekend. I bet i can count on one hand the t time weve had this much lightening. Just think about how many times it struck in the air. New at 4 00, the fight over the famous had monkey selffae. The photographer argued it was his camera so he owned the photo. The photoaugfr did promise to donate the gross any future earnings to charity from the image. I was going to say he takes better selfies than i do. Tonight at at any time park may be a first. Lightening delay and then some rain and then some a well, the johnson dodgers always seem to have a subplot when they faceoff. And tonight at at t park, it was lightening and rain. Thats right in midseptember. First the lightening about an hour. And then they got going. Then the rains came. So they pull everybody off the field. Bruce bochy not too happy about it. Then they put on the small tarps on the mound and home plate for a short delay. It looked over but as soon as they started pulling off the tarp, tharain got heavier. That out burst passed so out come the small tarps again. And then it got worse, and out comes the big tarps. That means a delay of at least an hour. Officially its 00 in the first inning. But youve got to get to five, so this could end up being a doubleheader on wednesday. Well keep you posted. Second inning with the bases clearing triple. Cleveland put up for a 50 lead. And in the fourth to make it 70. Cleveland st. Going to go onto make it 70 for their 19th straight win. If they can tie the as to make it 20 in a row tomorrow. The story today was their kicker. H was in Training Camp with the team and was brought back when sebastian went out with arn arm injury. He was also left footed, so it wouldnt be tough to adjust. He became the first in nfl histy to kick two 50 yards in in a day. When he scores over all, coach jack was happy. With the operation lining up, executing the plays, understanding where he belonged, playing together, playing through adversity, all those things really good. I think, you know, were looking to improve each and every week. So theres clearly a laundry list of things we need to do better, so what a good place to start. The panthers were a Super Bowl Team just two years ago and took advantage of super bowl turn overs and a pair of stops playing well until ruben foster got hurt. That took some air out of their balloon. Youve got to make that tackle right there. And only 278 yards of offense. Shooting themselves in the foot. They had their chances. Hitting him right in the hands, and he dropped it and over threw him on another. The run game was there, but they got away from it when they fell behind. And coach shanahan talked about taking the good with the bad. You take those opportunities and come up a little bit short. When you go up against a good team like that, its tough to over come. But our guys watching the tape today, by no means do they watch and feel they had no chance. There were times we still had a chance to be in that game. Monday night a football headeric kicking off. Adrian peterson returning as a new orleans state. Cook to replace peterson. Broke his first game viking rookie record by rushing 120 yards. Goes from 346 yards and three scores. And the vikings will win the game 12919 that final. Nbc sports final has been brought to you by toyota and as we were talking to you earlier to see if theres been a rain delay. And do you think theyll get it in . Whats the deal with lightening, got to wait an hour . Yeah, lightening looks like it might be a doubleheader. Thanks, guys, very much. Coming up tonight at abc 7 news at 11 00, more of what were talking about. Continuing to track rare summer lightening. Tonight cal fire claiming more than a dozen fires from the storm. And as we said a celtment of the unusual case that played down in San Francisco court is a monkey entitled to rights from a selfie it took . Well have more. But thats it right now for the news at 9 00. We appreciate your time. We appreciate your time. Hope you dramatic music [narrator] today, the stories of two murder cases. One in texas, one in london. 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