Were nearly empty. One lucky customer was getting the last ac as we were there. The manager says they have more acs and fans arriving regularly. A wildfire in Southern California is forcing voluntary evacuations this morning. It broke out yesterday around 3 00. It jumped to 850 acheners a maertd of hours and the last time we checked the fire was 0 contained. 450 firefighters are working that blaze. You can track the temperatures where you live on the app, you can piend it freon the app store. Google wants to build a mega campus in downtown san jose and today the city will decide whether to take the next step and enter into talks. Not everyone is so happy about the splent. Matt keller is live us in san jose. Reporter good morning. Google has good plans for this area but some Community Activists want to make sure they have their say. The city sees a lot of opportunity here in the downtown area. The tech giant twoobts wants to build a mega campus between 6 to 8 million square feet with cam track and eventually the bart extense. Google has started buying up parcels. Today the council will decide if it wants to move forward with an exclusive negotiating agreement with goolg for some of the cityowned and Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency properties. Labor leaders and Community Activists are concerned residents will be left out and result in for again tra if i occasion in the downtown area. Tey want the city workers and company to build the project and hire local people to work in it when its complete. Theres an substantial risk it will acc zaser base income inequality and make the housing problem worse than it already is. This will abe long process. The mayor predicts the project could take a decade to kpleelt. Todays Council Meeting starts at 1 30 this afternoon. Matt, thank you. One of the biggest questions people have about the ghost ship fire may never be answered. A report by oakland fire investigators it says they cant determine how the fire started. Investigators say it could be electrical failure but they dont rule out candles or smoking materials. They did determine that a makeshift electrical system was powering the warehouse. 36 people died in decembers fire. The ghost ship art collectors founder and his second in charge face man slauder charges with that fire. A north bay mother is grieving who lost her two children. The bodies were discovered yesterday on slater street . Santa rosa. Lilian kim has the story. Reporter neighbors say Alvaro Camara appeared to be a loving father. He would bring his children to his home when it was his turn to have the kids. Theyre really super sweet kids and he seemed like a really good father. He was always playing with them, riding his bike out here with them. He just looked at his son with so much love and pride, its just really sad. Reporter but neighbors say he did appear to be on edge in vent days. Police say he killed his two children inside his apartment where he then hanged himself. Deputies made the discovery by climbing through the bathroom wind sometime after 9 00 a. M. The childrens mother kaulds the Sheriffs Department to report that he failed to meet her to hand over the kids. Were still going to be exploring the timelines of when this tragedy occurred. The mother did immediately report it to the Sheriffs Department and they immediately began investigating. Reporter the mother is being comfort the by her loved ones at her Sonoma County home. She said they have a, quote, volatile arrangement. There was issues with the kids and custody and all of that. Police say as part of their investigation theyll be going through Court Records ant familys history. Lilian kim, abc 7 news. A group of jewish students and visitors is suing San Francisco State University against alleged antisemitism and discrimination. It comes from last april when the mayor of jerusalem was invited to speak on the koofrp pus. They say they shouted chants and used bull horns while they told police to stand down. They zruchted the mayors speech. The group who hosted him say their First Amendment triet free speech was violated. Yesterday the California Citizens Compensation Commission approved a pay hike in december in the say fifth raise in three years for the law makers. That pushes his salary up to 195,000 making hip the highest paid in the country. Theyre set to vote on a proposal to ban the sale of flavored tobacco. It would prohibit selling products. They target vulnerable populations like African Americans and teenagers. Small Business Owners say the ban will hurt them and promote a black market of flavors tobacco products. Happening today a vote on money for the controversial expansion of the west county Detention Center . Richmond. Protests are expected as theyre set to vote on aloe indicating 25 million of the general fund for the project. Supervisors voted to pursuit 400 bed jail expansion to alleviate overcrowding at the martinez jail. They say the money would be better spent on Mental Health and other services. Now your accuweather forecast. Lets talk more about the excessive heat thats still going to be around for some of us today. Lets go to the map and you can see the areas not in orange, the bay shoreline, specifically the San Francisco bay line and out towards the coast not in the heat advisory but everybody else in orange is. So another day of oppressive to possibly dangerous heat with the worst heat, the most dangerous heat up in Solano County thats why youre under an excessive heat warning thlt this is all until thursday earning. 24 temperature change, hoem hopefully this puts a smile on your face as reggie mentioned. Yeah where are a little better sleeping weather temperatures are 2 to 10 degrees cooler. In San Francisco about 54 to about 57 degrees, elsewhere were running in the upper 50s to low 60s around the bay shore into the south bay and northboy bay. Upper 60s in east bay neighborhoods. For your frans it today, the bart stations theres going to be some warm ones, its not going to be as warm if youre tark the ferry and that asphalt could get up to 135 to 40 degrees as youre driving around today. Temperatures seventies and 80s around the bay, it gets hotter tomorrow and even on thursday more on that next. Lets take a look outside we have a couple of issue. Bay bridge no problems here. Meetering lights remain off so its a good time to head in if you have to be up this early. Couple of problems in oakland. First we had a report of a stalled big rig westbound 580 before golf lynxes now were getting reports chp the same area opposite direction an overturned vehicle. Chp sont way there so well get some clarification when we come back in our next report. Thank you, sioux. Drones seem to be everywhere and with their popularity comes some concerns. Now one bay Area Community is considering a crack done on those dwiegss. More relief coming for the more relief coming for the victims of coyote creek flood will one day be affected by some kind of vision problem. Save your vision for the years ahead. Call. Or log on to seeabettertomorrow. Org to learn about glaucoma and macular degeneration. Abc 7 mornings are. All zbluz all morning. Santa cruz is now considering a new drone law to protect the safety of the community. According to sent nal. They have complaints of privacy. The first draft was tro diced yesterday. Proposed ideas include needing constent e sent for owners to fly over their property to staying away from Police Investigations and emergencies. If the City Council Approves the law at two public readings it would go into feekt 30 days later. Now a live desk update. All eyes on georgia today for a special congressional election. The most expensive race in house history. I want to show you a look here at the polling place from just a few moments ago. It just opened up, one of the plafrss in georgia where people are casting their ballot in georgias sixth district. Historically republican, and the vase between gop candidate karen handel and the democrat 30yearold newcomery jon osoff. If osoff wins it colorado would give democrats their first big win in the trump era. But either way its a real eye opener for republicans who have a strong hold in that district since the year 1979. So were going to see if it changes. No question, all eyes or georgia today. Thanks. The company that authorized Otto Warmbiers travel to u. S. Said stez is going to stop taking u. S. Citizens to that country. He died after at home after 17 months in captivity. Reporter he was the College Junior turned north korean prisoner. He was enrolled at the university of virginia when he traveled to the communist cuntry and was captured on video stealing e stealing a propaganda poster. He was working to defame north korea as a pawn of the u. S. Government, es spite his pleas for mercy, he was sentenced to 15 years hard labor. Please save mistake of my life. That confession wont last time otto familys would hear his voice. After 17 months he returned home but upon arrival he was carried off a plane unable to walk, talk, or respond to verbal commands. His neurological condition can be best described as a state of unresponsive wakefulness. Reporter doctors said they saw no evidence of physical beatings or of botulism which north korean officials claim he contracted after taking a sleeping pill, but the family isnt buying it. Even if you believe their explanation of botulism and a sleeping pill causing the coma, and we dont, theres no excuse for any civilized nation to have kept his condition secret. Reporter and just six days later, he died. He was in very tough condition but he just passed away a little while ago. Thats a brutal regime and well be able to handle it. Reporter its not clear what impact his death will have on the already tense situation between the United States and the Rogue Nuclear power. But at least one Top Republican wants to ban tourist travel to north korea after his death. Well, japanese air bag maker takata is likely to seek bankruptcy protection. They say that will leave little money for those who sued the company after deaths caused by exploding air bag inflaters. At least 16 people died worldwide. It 2u67d off the biggest recall in history. They agreed to a 1 billion settlement. One lawyer says the fikts will get 5 to 10 cents on the dollar compared to what they would get suing a healthy company. Millions of dollars of relief is coming to help state lawmakers. They passed a bill allowing 5. 4 million to help flood relief. It will go directly to hauz housing for flood victims. Last february coyote creek overflowed and the subsequent flooding caused over 100 million to homes in businesses in lowlying neighborhoods along the creek. Happening in multiple agencies in San Francisco theyre teaming up to help beach goers about common hazards we face this time of year. They plan to address beach conditions and Public Safety where there are dangerous rip currents. Rescue teams will conduct a mock rescue to teach people how they can help. They start at 10 00 this morning near lincoln way. People ledding to the beach to escape the hot weather are we out of it yet . At the beach we are the rest of us not so much. Speaking of rip dhaurnts what me and my wif were doing. We watched a special on it and we sat there and montero beach sunday and it was fascinateding to see how they roll. All right. So you got a sneak peak of the coast right there, pacifica, Half Moon Bay at 60s everywhere else on the pins pla in the 70s and 80s. Heres a look from our roof camera. Most daylight today and tomorrow, yeah, thats it. We have reached our peak of daylight as the summer sols stis tis hits at about 9 24 this evening. Heat builds tomorrow, records likely thursday, and then the heat will subside as we head into the weekend. Heres a look at whats going on at the coast, just to give you an idea, foggy conditions there were ceilings about 300 feet, visibility about 2. 5 miles. This isnt going to hang around there will abe little more sunshine at the coast than yesterday. Temperatures, were going to be from 83 to 88 in the san jose. 75 millbrae, 80 fwhun san mateo, look at these low to mid60s along the coast, refreshing low 70s to mid sets San Francisco, south San Francisco. 87 in san rafael to 94 in santa rosa. Richmond, berkley, oakland, everybody else in the 80s and a sprinkling of 100s in the east bay valleys. Ithurs going to be brutal. Sioux. Were going to go outside now, chp getting first reports of an accident. This is the east shore freeway in the westbound direction right at university and im not seeing any activity right now as far as emergency crews. It looks like traffic is flowing pretty nicely westbound past university well check back with the chp and get an update that. Currently a couple other issues. We just had all lanes blocked temporarily, this is westbound 5 pardon me, westbound 580 before golf links we have two incidents so were trying to clear it up here. Westbound is a stalled big rig, eastbound all lanes before golf links just temporarily while they get an overturned vehicle out of there. Not seeing a lot of slowing yet. Thank you. The bay area loses its bragging rights over beer, the brew that is now number one in the nation. The holidays are months away but one Delivery Company is already planning for it by charging you more. Washington smaking it easier for your Internet Provider to sell your online habits. The california lawmakers are saying not here. First this mornings tech bites. In todays tech bitesual street opens in record territory this morning thanks in part to tech stocks. Facebook, netflix and amen will open higher are the amazon hit an alltime high yesterday. This as several tech ceos met with the president at the white house. If you subscribe to apple music, they could save you some money. They atted a 99 annual plan. Thats about 20 less than what most people say. If you have some old gadgets around the house, youll like this. A working amen 1 from 1976 sold last week at auction for 355,000. It originally cost about 600. A discount. The model was hand built by reef e steve jobs himself in his very own garage. Youve seen it from the movies. Movies. I used to build things like were back at 4 51. The pride flag is flying over San Francisco city hall this morning. The mayor joined House Majority leader nancy pelosi to raise the rainbow flag lot of night. This years flag ceremony kicks off the 47th pride celebration and it honors Gilbert Baker hes the artist who created first rainbow flag right here in the city. He recently day. San franciscos pride zbraigs celebration happens this weekend. Sending Holiday Gifts for ups could cost you more this year. I know youre trying to get me to think about krift mass, were only in june. Ups is saying its planning to charge a surcharge for holiday deliveries this year. Its going to be sfwent cents foreground shipment earlier in the season ton 97 cents earlier in the peak times. Theres a wind zo between december 3rd and the seven teeth where the charge will not apply and then kicks in again. They say the surcharges will help theyll cover the costs of hiring adrishl workers and rentding trucks and planes during the busy Holiday Season if the isnt that their job . Isnt that the only thing they do is deliver mail. The top rated commercial beer in the nation no longer comes from the bay area. For the last eight years, elder has been named number one by the American Home brewers koegsz association. Its made by a ruks Russian Company here in santa rosa. However, thisser is vaps that bails hard man in the spot. Its one of the top six. Piney elder comes in number two. Brek taft stout, flee floyd zombie dust and hot slam. Are these just words put together in a random order. We wanted to see if you would say it all. It looks like word salad to me but im sure people who love beer know what im talking about. Pineya the elder was not included in the survey because it doesnt have wide enough distribution. Zombie dust. Zombie dust. Doesnt sound like something want to drink. Doesnt sound healthy. Maybe today i pour it on my head. There you go. You know how hot this dark hair gets. Lets take a look at whats going on the exploratorium as we look from pier 15. Lets take a look at your warming trend today. In fact, todays going to be our coolest day this week and temperatures are still anywhere from 3 to 16 degrees above average, at least coolest until we get to the weekend. Heres some more good news. If you slept well this morning, keep it going tomorrow morning. Look at that, 50s along the coast, mid50s there, mid to upper 50s around the bay to some 60s inland. The only hot spot antioch about 73. And 102 today, 104 wednesday, 106 wednesday. 87 sunday, its going to feel like spring, or fall four. Lets talk about the as they could make it another win but theyve got another chance today. 7005 first pitch, dropping down to about 65. Heres sioux. Well go and check on where we have a couple problem spots this morning. First head over to oakland we have all lanes blocked, you can see that purple right there eastbound between golf link theyre trying to remove an overturned vehicle to once again avoid eastbound if you can, take 880 at this hour. Westbound stoold stalled big rig lane number four thats in the exact same, area, so two cooperate incidents confirmed and out near byron vas coroad at comean know diablo, both lanes blacked blokd with an accident there and thats a good bypass flower so expect delays. Once they get that cleared well check back. All right. Pu it. A new federal law alaws internet provideser to track your internet use and celt information they gather. But a metro introduced in sacramento aims to restore your privacy. It would, i them to get your consent before releasing the details. They also want to enghalk pay for privacy practices. Were talking about Sensitive Information including for example their health information, Social Security number, and also their browsing history as to what web sites that they have visited over the years. So this is very important and Sensitive Information that we want to do everything to protect. Well, about a dozen other states are working on similar proposals. Turns out pizza rat has some competition this morning. Either that or pizza rat himself has been work out because now theres a rat who hauls trash. A woman in brooklyn started shooting video on her cell phone when she spotted this rod dent dragging a bag of garbage last week. It eventually dragged some pizza out of the bag. Thats where it gets suspicious, if is it the same rat. People who live in the neighborhood say theyre used to seeing rots rats on the streets and therp not afraid of getting close to hum zblanz i dont know if you remember how it ended, he think he loses the piece of pizza in the end. If this is pizza rat im excited he finally had his day. In case didnt know, were in the middle of a heat wave weve been talking about nonstop. Next at 5 00 what you need to know about it today. And where in Northern California someone cooked bacon and cookies inside of a car. And hiel the heat is actually affecting travel this morning here at the live desk getting new numbers on all the flights that are stopped, ill have the details next. Whos going to regulate selfdriving cars . Tesla and google are both backing a new proposal that could draskally impact the antonymous car landscape. The Energy Conscious whopeople among usle . Say small actions can add up to something. Humongous. A little thing here. A little thing there. Starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. Who are all these caretakers, advocates too . Turns out, its californians its me and its you. Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. Join Energy Upgrade california and do your thing. Good morning east bay. Lets get up and get going. This is abc 7 mornings. Ooif clock a. M. On a tuesday, june 20th. Welcome to another hot day if youre inland. Thats true. And its going to get hot for the rest of us as this week goes on. Thursday is the day well talk to mike in just a second about that. First well see how traffic looks this morning. A couple problem spots right now believe it or not at 5 00 a. M. Weve got an overturned vehicle in oakland. This is eastbound 580 kbr golf links that purple theyve had it closed down all lanes
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