Fire to d i was arson. Abc 7 news brought the issue to the attention of Council WomanRebecca Kaplan as she asked the transportation director to avoid those tickets. They have asked police to stop issuing tickets to any vehicles in that evacuation zone. 37 structures have been lost in the wall fire in buk county near oroville. It has burned 58 acres, it is now 40 contained. Firefighters have been push through temperatures in the 80s, rugged terrain to set a line around the fire. A combination of grass and oak trees have fueled the flame since it startsd on fire. And smoke from a fire can be seen from space. Its burned 29,000 acres since june. Its 15 contained. Santa clara county fire tweeted out a photo of their strike team which joined the battle against the fire yesterday. Now a live desk update from. Abc 7 mornings. And that is quited is. The fbi and military officials are trying to figure out how a marine corps plane crashed in mississippi. This happened in a rural area about 100 miles north of jackson. They say the kc130 plane had a mishap. Witnesses saw is go down in a corkscrew pattern and slam into a soy bean field. Theyre urging people to stay away from the crash site because its still considered unsafe. Place is used extensively in the military for aerial carrying cargo or transporting troops. Well now to the meeting between president trumps son and russian lawyer link to the clem lin. The u. S. Times reports he was told the information been Hillary Clinton was part of an effort by the russian government to help his father get elected. Reporter the white house is again on the defensive following a New York Times report donald trump junior was informed in an email that damaging information about Hillary Clinton was part of a russian government effort to help his fathers campaign. Its a very serious splent. Everyone who was in that meeting had to come before our committee. These emails that are described we need to see. Reporter that meeting wasnt just with trump junior but also then Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort and trumps soninlaw and current adviser Jared Kushner and it took place at trump tower with a russian lawyer linked to the kremlin. And according to trump junior, an individual who he was told might have information helpful to the campaign. This is the first time that the public has seen clear evidence of senior level members of the Trump Campaign meeting with russians to try to obtain information that might hurt the campaign of Hillary Clinton. In the past, the president s son denied having any contact with russians about the campaign. Its without question, reads and smells like a witch. Reporter but now says of last summers meeting with the russian attorney it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information and that meeting ended. President trump has also insisted there were no contacts between his campaign and russians. The White House Deputy press secretary Sara Huckabee sanders says the president only recently learned of the meeting. No one within the Trump Campaign colluded in order to influence the election. His lawyer released a statement saying this is much ado about nothing adding the bottom line is that, quote, don junior did nothing wrong. When asked about this latest development, the white house had no comment. Gentleman nay norman, abc news, washington. The largest lgbtq in the country is set to have a Funding Campaign against president trumps agenda. They will set sai side 26 million to help pro lgbtq candidates wirn at all levels of government. They say the power and determination of lgbtq voters and allies will continue to grow stronger in the face of discriminatory acts. They will start to remove a sunken barge by the bay bridge today. They it came loose during a storm and sank back in april. Crews got the barge many two pieceans theyll use a drien lift them to thor is vase at noon today. It should take 30 to 60 hours to complete. The coast guard semiposing an 1100 zone for voters around the recovery area. Happening today, more than a million water users will find out if theyre rates are going to take a big jump. East bay mud directors are set to vote on a rate hike at increase would go up immediately. Sewer rates would also go up. East bay mud says it needs the money to pay for infrastructure improvements. The increases will affect 1. 5 million water useners contra costa and ail mada counties. Oakland officials and its Police Department will have a meeting. They appeared before the judge yesterday to answer questions about how they handled a sex scandal involve a teenager and a dozen police officers. The judge ordered a hearing after they found they were inept in their handling of the schedule. It could result in oakland losing controm of its Police Department. A bart is being criticized for a memo on its position about withholding crime information from the public. The memo suggests that reporting the kriemds would unfairly affect and portray riders of color. Since april, there have been at least three cell phone robberies on bart. On friday night another man says he was followed off bart by a group of teens who he says attacked and robbed him on uc berkeleys camp puss. Bart didnt put a press release out about that and doesnt regularly priefd public crime noticed. A bart board member wants to see that change. I think we just have to be honest with the public and i think the public needs to know tactics that are used which is why i think that the attack on april 22nd should be shown. Bart says they do report all crime on a site called crime mapping. Com. We have been to that site, it lists about one sentence on each incident. In fact i was on it a few minutes ago and it frustrated me. Maybe you can figure it out better than i can. We want to hear your experiences with bart, share with us what you love, what you hate, what you think its a change on social media and add that dearbart so we can post it. Open up the roof window. You can see the are lack of cloud cover out there. Lets take a look at your activity planner for today. Beaches weve got some dangerous waves. In fact ill shoal that you coming up in about 20 minutes and how long thats going to last. Exercising, supreme sunshine and breezy north of the bay bridge if youre playing out on the water. Small craft advisory starts at 9 00 this morning and goes through 9 00 this evening. Winds out of the southwest 23 miles per hour, gusting up to 35. Temperatures 52 in west portal and the marina, park pru sid doe and bay view some of the warmest spots around snans San Francisco. Palo alto and santa clary 56, 60s around walnut creek and pittsberg, richmond 58. You can see our average high in san jose is 83, no out at 80 around 3 00 and 63 by 7 00. Our temperatures will be below average around the bay. Inland close to average. Fairly steady tomorrow, slight warming thursday but its going to get down right hot this weekend in my accuweather sevenday forecast. Heres alexis. Good morning. And so far so good for the Tuesday Morning commute. Just a few vehicles going by here southbound golden gate bridge. I had not spotted those zipper trucks yet and our drive times still looking great as well. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin ramping up our only drive time that the early hour, 36 minutes in the yellow, westbound 4, ant tack to oncord still in the green at 13 and san rafael france just 17 minutes. Thanks. East bay sinkhole is turning into financial disaster. The affluent bay area suburb on the brink of bankruptcy this morning. State lawmakers are willing to take on a Silicon Valley billionaire theyre expected to move today to a county beach. Move today to a county beach. Well be back soon food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. Abc 7 mornings. All news. All morning. Were back at 4 402. San mateo Police Arrested a man after they say he broke into a home, fought the homeowner wearing only a tshirt and shoes. The resident called 911 after finding a man inside his home on north rail avenue yesterday. They identified him as 38yearold rodney hernandez. They got into a physical altercation inside the house. Police got there and arrested hernandez. He has a history of drugrelated violations. He now faces burglary and battery charges. Damage from last winters storms has left this town on the bankruptcy. A lot of neighbors are asking how this could have happened. Its surprising, very surprising. Bet youre surprised to hear the lovely affluent town of more rag ga where the average price of a home is short on cash. All the houtss pretty, everybodys driving pretty nice cars. They recently declared a fiscal emergency. The sweez on the town comes partly from two infrastructure disasters, a sinkhole which opened up in the center of town last year and storm damage to a bridge on canyon road. Both projects topping around 5 million dee fleeting the towns savings. We just dont have any revenue able at this point to address any future fiscal emergencies or any infrastructure emergency. Reporter real estate prices may be booming but havent followed. For now they wont lay off any of its fulltime employees instead it is going to reduce Services LikePark Maintenance with you some are asking how did we get here. Joo its kind of embear zblags this man has lived in more rag ga 24 years. Not sure where we go from here. Should we fire the council . The fiscal emergency allows moraga to put any revenue raising measures on the ballot before the next election. The town plans to send a sur rey have a to residents on what kind of tax they would prefer. In moraga, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Happening today, state lawmaker will consider a plan to force this man to sell 6. 5 acres of land in san mateo county. Its the only way to get to the beach by land. The state Lands Commission is is going to consider invoking Eminent Domain to purchase that land. They say its worth 360,000. His attorney claims the parcel is wourt 30 billion. Amazon will consider will be part of a deal with the company thats created delivery row boots like these. A little bit covered by the graphic at the bottom but you get the idea. The bots would travel on city sidewalks to make deliveries and customers can monitor theyre journey on smartphones. Lifeguards except to be busy until at least tomorrow Southern California beaches because the strong currents. This shouldnting ton beach in orange county. Both surfers and rescuers say that can be deceiving. Go out with a group of people and maybe say waist deep. Dont push it. Ask the gords in the area what the conditions are, what are the prevailing conditions and whats the safest area to swim. Huntington beach lifeguards say theyve rescued more than 200 people from the rough surf just over the weekend. Well check in with mike nicco now. A couple of things to think about with rip currents they move in a kir sue lar pattern so theyll take you out and also bring you back in and the area that looks the calmest thats usually where the rip current is so something to think about it and ill talk about that in about eight minutes. Heres a look at the golden gate bridge, a little bit of wind. Becoming sunny at the coast today, nearly steady temperaturewise through friday and 1 hungry highs this weekend. You can see that wind gusting to 29 in fairfield, thats when you know youve got a stout sea breeze by just like yesterday the air is so dry the clouds just wont hang around. Mid to upper 80s in our inland east bay neighborhoods, 87 in concord. The breezes will hold our 27z down in places like sonoma at 80 and same thing in nevada. Now the sage bay, 83. Hope you enjoyed yesterday san jose, about the same today. And the plins, sunny on both sides from 66 in mill ray, 66 at half moon bay, palo alto 76. And sunny and comfy in oakland to 74 in free mopt. Last to, San Francisco 63 to the Mission District at 65. You can see those temperatures remain pretty steady through friday and then those 1 hundreds they just donald trump out at you saturday and sunday inland with 80s around the bay but the free airconditioning around the coast with mid up toer 60s. Look who joined me. Its nice to see you up close and in person. We sit right next to each other. And give each other a hard time. What are you working on . Very quiet. In fact im smoping for amazon prime deals on the Traffic Center right now. What do you need . Dont say umbrella. I cant tell you. Heres a look at traffic. We are quiet here on wul walnut creek. As you said through 680 that stretch not too much were back to normal weekday volumes here for the weekday commute. Were not on a holiday week. No issues so far. Bart trains and service ace 1 on time no delays and caltrain no issues reported were looking normal there as well. Travelers have another chance to sign up for the popular tsa precheck option at Oakland International airport. Theyre bringing back the temporary popup booth following a successful turnout in november. It allows you to speed through the lanes when youre going through security while keeping your shoes and life jackets on. The temporary center will be open weekdays through july 21st in terminal two. The worlds top athletes are getting ready for the espy awards. Its given to those whose careers have left a lasting impression on the sports world. He retired last fall after calling dodger games for 67 years. His kreerp was the longest tenure of any broadcaster with a single sports team. Live at the eps spis tomorrow. You can look for his life reports on abc 7 news at pour clock, 5 00, 6 00, and 11 00. You can watch them at 8 00 right here on abc 7. And were peering in jupiters great red spot. When youll be able to see one of the biggest mysteries insola fire like youve never seen before, the new video that reveals the blaze from the firefighterss point of view fnchts youre enjoying your first cup of off fee this morning, drink up. But first this mornings tech bites. In todays tech bites the hopes spreading on facebook. Users have been sharing a message saying their friends shouldnt accept a friday request from jaden k. Smith but the message itself is a hoax. Theres no evidence of anyone named jaden k. Smith. And one more note about facebook, it is once again cutting the price of his Virtual Reality headset. But the price reduction is only temporary. During the sixweek sale the headset and controller are about 400. The combo usually retails for about 600. Its the 2 second 200 price cut in just four months. A hot new start up is giving tesla a run for its moan. Loose la motors said its car hit a top speed of 235 miles per hour. Per hour. That crush were back at 4 53. Firefighters will tell you that seconds count when it comes to saving lives and stopping the flames. Youre about to take a peek inside their world. This is helmet cam video contr county fire district. Youll see what they face when they put out a fire on friday, nobody got hurt and the flames didnt spread beyond the carport. Three kittens who were rescued from a piece of Construction Equipment are close to getting a far more comfortable home. Kittens were pulled from a construction lift in Red Wood City about a month and a half ago by peninsula humane society. When they arrived on the scene, rescuing them proved a little bit tricky. So we could hear them but u but we couldnt get to them so we have an inspection camera for this although this is the first time weve rescued anything from a piece of construction they were able to retrieve the kittens with a modified bird net and theyve been nursed back to health and are now up for adoption. Theres 120 fee which also covers spay, newtering and a micro chip. A restoration project at a new Jersey Museum under a unique fine. Wine thats more than 200 years old. Workers at liberty hall found three full cases of ma deer row wine dating back to 1796. Thats a sweet fortified dessert wine that was shipped to the u. S. From europe in 18th century. Whiskey from 1870 one and burr bon was also found as well as cases of cuban cigars. Someone was having a good time. And we always think of a good time when we think of the beaches, dont we . Lets take a look at assistant cruz, its pretty quiet out there. Your beaches today are going to be sunny after a touch of gray this morning. Low to mid60s half moon bay, ocean beach, 64 in monta ray to 74 in santa cruz. But look at that water temperature 56. Heres what weve been talking about, the beach hads ard statement which means our south bay beaches are going to face large breakers, sneaker waves and rip currents starting late tonight through tomorrow evening. So if youre heading out that way to enjoy the sunshine and the cool conditions, just be careful. Heres alexis. Good morning and, yes, still very quiet in the Traffic Center here this morning. 101 and 880 that inbound traffic northbound side coming towards us things are slowly filling in but no issues to report so far and drive times looking great as well. Westbound 80 highway four to the maize at 17, 10 across the bay bridge 101 youre in the green at 10 minutes. Sounds like a minor issue in the tracy area well check on that. Giving our best look yet at jupiters great red spot. The june know spacecraft flew directly above the monster storm overnight. It passed just 5,600 miles above the cloud tops. Thats close when youre talking space standards. This is animation of the fly by from nasa. The great red spot is 7,000 miles wide. Thats hard to imagine. June knows instruments will help scientists figure out how deep it goes. Nasa plans to release the closeup immaims on friday. Two studies are claiming that Drinking Coffee could lead to a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke and other causes. The research for cancer focused on hundreds of thousand of europeans and americans. The findings show that people drinking two to three cups of coffee a day had an 18 lower risk of dying compared to noncoffee drinkers. They say even one cup has benefits. Researchers say its not likely doctors will start outright recommending coffee to patients but if youve always been a coffee drinker theres no reason to stop what about when its mostly cream and ten packs of sugar. Or chock lalt. Were just months away from Recreational Marijuana being sold in california. The east bay finally lifting its ban on medical skailz sales. Commuters are excited about the lane edition on the bridge but it appears to have hit another roadbloc. And where this massive waterspout was spotted right next to a house. Its 4 57 in the morning youre up and were up and refleesht. Take a live look outside a peace looking embark dare row this morning. Live traffic up on your screen throughout the entire screen. Well be right back. The sixdollar subway club. Its everyones favorite, hey look, its everyones favorite, the sixdollar sweet onion chicken teriyaki. Advertising. Theyre footlongs and theyre six bucks each. Subway. So. Much. 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You can see theres hardly any clouds out there right now. The air is so, so dry. You can see the breezes out there as we look from our roof cam down towards the Ferry Building that will be the saving grace from us overheating today. 53 to 59, well say stay in the 50s at the coast, those are your bottom 37z temperatures middle temperatures thats the bay, and the inland temperatures are the warmest on top about 80 to 86 from noon to 4 00. We will touch find that in a few h