Mission boulevard, still in the green at 14. Northbound 85, wide open in the green at just 17 minutes. Well take a closer look at the south bay commute coming up in less than ten. We have developing news now. Ten american sailors are missing. Five are hurt. Following a collision between a Navy Destroyer and a merchant ship. Ship. The uss President Trump will address the nation on his strategy for the war in afghanistan. And the New York Times is reporting the president will likely announce plans to increase the number of troops there. The number of Additional Forces not clear at this point. This will be mr. Trumps first formal address to the nation. Hes scheduled to speak at 6 00 tonight our time. And developing news out of iraq where the next phase of the countrys war on the Islamic State is under way. U. S. Backed iraqi forces have launched a multipronged assault to retake the town of talafar. The forces have recaptured a series of villages. One of the last pockets of Islamic State held territory in iraq after victory was declared in july in mosul. Grief counselors will be at Oakland Skyline High School as students mourn the oakland firefighter shot and killed in san jose. 30yearold jake walter graduated from sky line. He was an assistant baseball coach there before he left to attend the fire academy. Police are still looking for the gun. A 27yearold used it to shoot walter and another firefighter thursday night. The firefighters were confronted by two men outside an event. The gunfire erupted without warning after a brief exchange of wards. The wounded firefighter is at Santa Clara Medical center. Officials now say mark rich of menlo park was the only person onboard a single engine home built plane. The plane took off from the San Carlos Airport and crashed at a Gathering Spot for eclipse watchers. They learned a Family Member of the pilot was originally scheduled to be on the trip and did not end up going. The eclipse is drawing thousands of people to oregon, which is the place to be to see the entire sun covered by the moon. Elena lee reports now from lincoln city. Near the oregon coast, folks are gearing up for the total Solar Eclipse. It may be calm, but the people we spoke with are still anticipating a bigger rush monday morning. While lincoln city is one of the first areas to get a view of the Great American eclipse, it might not be the busiest. Or at least it seems that way to some. We live here. Its not changed much at all. I mean, its kind of a ghost town. Like most people, shannon and her husband were expecting large crowds of people and long lines of cars, but that just wasnt the case. I made a funny video of the apocalyptic traffic. There was none. Shannon and her husband work near the coast and say despite the lack of people, theyre still pumped for the big event. Lets party down, have fun with this. Speaking of partying, in lincoln city, the total Solar Eclipse of the art was one way for vendors to capitalize on this event. We didnt have to gefar to see Solar Eclipse themed souvenirs and we ran out of out of towners. One family traveled from the uk just to watch the earth, moon, and sun align. We arrived two or three days ago. Its about 2 00 in the morning for us, but its good. Our first total eclipse as a family. Cant wait. Forecasters are calling for low clouds and perhaps some fog monday, but hopefully the wind will pick up just enough to keep it from sticking around. Abc 7 news. There are more than 30 public eclipse viewing events happening around the bay area this morning. In oakland, you can head to the chabot space center. In San Francisco, the exploratoriums event starts at 9 00, but it might be foggy. And you can join others at hogue park. Well have coverage including the abc special coverage at 10 00 anchored by david muir. Switching gears. A condolence book will be available to sign at the spanish consulate in San Francisco. This is where travelers are returning home to the bay area from barcelona. Amy hollyfield is live for us at the consulate. Reporter hi, reggie. Americans who were in barcelona are now starting to arrive home. We saw some very special, happy, joyful reunions at Oakland International airport yesterday as people started coming home. The only airport in the bay area that offers direct nonstop service to and from barcelona. One young man from Castro Valley cut his trip short because of the attack much to the relief of his mother. Absolutely relieved. I havent slept in two nights. Happy hes on california land. One american who was killed in the attacks, a bay area man, 43yearold jared tucker of lafayette, here in the bay area, victims are on peoples minds. If you would like to sign the condolence book at the consulate, it will be available today from 10 00 to 1 00. Reporting live in San Francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. All right. Lets talk more about the Great AmericanSolar Eclipse. Heres some statistics for today. Its going to pass through 12 states. It starts in oregon and then heads to south carolina, but youre thinking, wait a minute, the sun comes up in the east and sets in the west. Thats how the moons going to align it, though. 90 minutes to cross the u. S. And it last happened in 1979. If youre stepping outside, low to mid 60s in our inland east bay neighborhoods. If you head out in antioch and brentwood, those are the places for sure with sunshine. Then well have clearing in the San Ramon Valley right as the eclipse is beginning. Lets take a look at our other temperatures. Weve got pretty much low to mid 60s all around the bay shore and into the south bay. In the hills, 55 in los gatos. Heres a look at san mateo bridge. Looking westbound there. On the roads today, cloudy to sunny. Have the sunglasses with you. Mass transit will be cool around San Francisco to warm if youre taking things like b. A. R. T. Inland, and the Small Craft Advisory for the northern half of the bay into the san pablo bay. Ill show you more on that coming up. A quick look at todays forecast. The highs are cooler than average because for a couple hours were going to get limited sunshine from 9 00 to about 11 30. So for about 2 1 2 hours, thats some of our prime warming. Well warm back to average tomorrow and keep climbing wednesday, and ill have the rest of that accuweather sevenday forecast coming up next. Heres alexis. Good morning. So far, were looking pretty good on the roads. I want to take you to highway 17. Some overnight road work, we have scheduled until about 6 30 this morning on southbound 17 between laurel road and Scotts Valley drive. A little red there approaching that. And that is the counter commute direction. Im guessing theyre just stopping traffic momentarily and that will clear out soon. It should not be a major issue, and a district check outside. No metering lights yet and very light traffic volumes. A lot of students heading back to school today, so be on the lookout for the school zones and the kids walking and riding their bikes to school. Next traffic update in less than ten minutes. A double shock as the nation loses two comedy icons. The impact beyond the big screen of jerry lewis and dick gregory. And state lawmakers taking measures to tackle californias Affordable Housing crisis. Keeping tabs on live traffic keeping tabs on live traffic and weather for whatcha been doing braydon . Reading lets see pictures, pictures,pictures theres a boy riding on his bicycle you can read too grandpa yea its always better when were together were back at 4 41. The eclipse will have an effect on californias solar power grid. Operators say theyre ready. The whole eclipse from start to finish will take two hours. In california, the eclipse is expected to wipe out six gigawatts of solar electricity. I dont know about you. I dont know what that means but its enough to power several million homes. Power operators will use natural gas, wind, and hidropower to meet that demand. Our friends at up grade Energy California said even small losses will help. Maybe this is the time to upgrade your old light bulbs to l. E. D. Bulbs. Also think about hanging your laundry to dry instead of running your dryer at 10 00 a. M. This morning. Just wait. You want to see how youre going to watch the eclipse. Share your photos and videos with us. Use the abc7now. Do not look directly into the sun because it can and likely will permanently damage your vision. A pittsburg man faces charges after deputies say he tried to run them down. The Sheriffs Office says joey carroll led deputies on a chase in a stolen car late saturday night. He rammed into a patrol car, and a deputy fired at him twice. Carroll was not hurt. Hes then accused of driving the wrong way on interstate 680 and hitting another car. He was treated at the hospital and released. Deputies say he violated his probation. Hes now in jail without bail. San Francisco Police are looking for six rifles stolen from a car. It was parked on leyland avenue. He was in the process of moving and staying in the area over the weekend. The theft was discovered yesterday morning. Police have not said where the guns were stored. Governor brown and the legislature are set to tackle californias Affordable Housing crisis. More than a dozen bills are now in play and votes on them could start this week. A bond measure on the table would provide 3 billion to fund Affordable Housing. Another measure would impose a 75 fee on real estate documents such as deeds and notices with the money raised going to low income housing. Critics say that measure would hurt middle class homeowners. Lawmakers have until september 15th to pass legislation. Thats when they leave for another recess. The entertainment world mourning the loss of two icons. Jerry lewis and dick gregory. Heres abc7 reporter cornell bernard. The passing of jerry lewis already generating thousands of reactions on our abc7 facebook page. Many of you have a memory. My grandmother used to call me jerry lewis. Really . Because i was like the comedian in the crowd. I loved him. He was very funny. Especially in his younger days. A true comedy legend, jerry lewis defined comedy as a man in trouble. Gags and prattfalls were the foundation of his career. Just his facial expreshzs and his over the top humor. As kids, we thought the guy was hilarious. Donald lacy remembers watching those famous buddy movies pairing with dean martin. And later when lewis made and directed his own films like the nutty professor. But it was his role for more than half a century as spokesman for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation that made him most proud. Raising millions of dollars. The world has also lost comedian and activist dick gregory. His pioneering humor reflected the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Donald lacy remembers one of his famous jokes. He was eating at some southern restaurant when segregation, you know, he was a big civil rights advocate, and the waitress told him, we dont serve negroes, he said, thats okay, i dont eat them. In 1982, jerry lewis told abc7 news he didnt care how the world would remember him. I damn well have to let you know, im concerned with what you think of me right now. And thats all i care about. Jerry lewis was 91 years old. Dick gregory was 84. Cornell bernard, abc7 news. That dick gregory joke was just amazing. Okay. The next American Idol could be from the bay area. 000 of people packed oaklands Jack London Square for a shot at stardom. I dont want you to work out there but i want you to be true sing. 16yearold bella of san rafael was one of those who got a Golden Ticket to move on. Hopefuls lined up for hours to perform in front of idol producers yesterday. Bay area is telling us theyre excited the show is coming back. This has been such an amazing opportunity. I did this a few times before. Didnt make it quite far, but this has been my dream, it feels good to be back and able to try again. The people who advance will audition in front of a panel of celebrity judges including katy perry on a future date. American idol returns soon here. This is the preaudition . The audition to the audition . You didnt know that . There are multiple rounds, natasha. Keep up the drama. If you cant make it to oakland, you can audition right now or any time. Zee a link to the apizatiplicatt abc7news. Com. Potential contestants need to be 15 years old. Im too old. I cant remember what the cutoff is. The best will come from san rafael, my hometown. Lets get over to mike nicco. Open up the Weather Window on san jose. Its cloudy even here. Clouds are starting to move in to the north bay. And the east bay as we speak. The morning sunshine is going to be eclipsed for many of us clouds. Slow warming through the week. Heres a look at whats going on as far as temperatures today. Well start with our microclimates in the south bay. 78, milpitas. Low to mid 80s for the rest of us. West san jose, about 81. 70 to 75 on the peninsula. You can see mid 60s along the coast. 63 in the sunset, daly city, downtown San Francisco, 67 degrees. Just about no chance of seeing the eclipse there. In the morth bay, temperatures around 76 in petaluma to 80 in novato and calistoga. Along the east bay shore, berkeley, 69. Oakland at 70, 78 in fremont, and our inland east bay neighborhoods where the clouds will be clearing as the eclipse begins. 80 in san ramon to 85 in brentwood. Heres a look at the cloud cover tonight. Expensive for all of us. Temperatures ranging from about 57 in santa rosa to about 62 in san jose, antioch, and palo alto. Heres a look at my sevenday forecast. A slow warming trend. It will jump a couple degrees tomorrow. Maybe a couple more wednesday. Then friday, saturday, and sunday, we could see a few 90s inland. Even some upper 70s to low 80s around the bay. And low to mid 60s at the coast. Big day today. A lot of kids going back to school. We have the eclipse. Were both very busy this morning. I know, yeah. I have pretty obvious Solar Eclipse driving tips for you coming up, too. Number one, dont try to match the eclipse while youre driving. Thats why i have a sun roof. Come on. Dont even try it. I think well have some distracted drivers out there today. Just use some extreme caution. Right now, starting off really quiet. No major problems. The only blocking incident, northbound 880 near auto mall parkway. We had a vehicle fire taking up the two right lanes. Thats cleared from the board. A tow truck arrived on the scene, no injuries. Thats no longer a blocking situation. And walnut creek, southbound 680, were looking okay. Slowly starting to fill in. Were expecting these volumes to get heavier and heavier each day this week as more and more students return to school. At this early hour, youre looking pretty good. Well look at drive times coming up just before 5 00. Thank you. Happening today, more than 100 warriors employees will be in oakland to help renovate a school. Theyll build picnic tables and classroom furniture and assembling School Supply gift baskets. Where with todays project, the warriors employees will surpass 14,000 Service Hours and six years of volunteering through handson outreach. There are rescues and then there are rescues. A Police Agency called in to pluck uncle buck out of the ocean. Hundreds of volunteers spend their weekend making sure deserving children are ready for the start of school day. Why organizers say the help is needed now more than ever. Thieves bring in heavy equipment to pull off a big heist. In todays tech bites, hightech ways to experience the eclipse. Nasa will be tracking it from special planes. Tell cope scopes, and High Altitude balloons. You can check out all of that action at nasa. Gov. Helping those who cant see it, an app that will enable the visually impairs to experience the eclipse using sound. The app is available on apple and android, offering real time narration for users based on what the eclipse is doing in their area. If youre located outside the path of totality, abcs david mure will host the Great American eclipse, checking in with correspondents across the country. Abc live coverage begins at 1 00 p. M. Eastern onair and online. It will run for two hours checking in with all of those correspondents. Correspondents. Get your glasses ready o when you recognize something isnt right, make the call to the Veterans Crisis line at 18002738255 and press 1. Do you see this . Some thieves in arkansas used heavy equipment to steal an atm. Operating a large caterpillar forklift, they lifted an atm out of the ground in the Early Morning hours on wednesday. And they got away with it, so far. Police say they dont know how much loot the robbers actually got. Not that anyone is thinking of doing something similar to this, but let me warn you many of these atms are now equipped with gps. Hundreds of volunteers are making sure deserving kids are ready for school. Volunteersusands of school and dental supply kits. Many will go to homeless student in berkeley. Donations are down by 125,000. The group says thats due to a change on turbo tax that made i charitable donations. Heres an unusual ocean rescue. Scotts Valley Police posted this video of the Santa Cruz Harbor patrol and California State Parks rescuing uncle buck. The deer sculpture had been stolen and was found floating in the ocean, caught in kelp. His owner says the sculpture is worth 8,000. By whose estimate . Secured by chains, but someone had cut them. Police are still searching for that person. I mean okay. Must be priceless to the owner. There you go. How about that . Lets talk about the breezes. The reason why were going to have a hard time watching the eclipse around the bay. Theyll get faster even from 1 00 this afternoon to 9 00 this evening. North and eastward, all the way through the delta. Lets take a look. We have a baseball game tonight. Brewers in town to take on the giants. 7 15 first pitch, partly cloudy and 63. It will become mostly cloudy by about 10 15. Dress accordingly. Heres alexis. Not too much happening on the road this morning. Westbound 580, starting to see a few vehicles trickle across, but thats about it so far this morning. Drive times still looking good, too. Our slowest spot, tracy to dublin in the yellow. Antioch to concord in the green at 13. Were just hearing about a crash on the shoulder, and southbound 101, youre wide open in the green at 16 minutes. Thank you so much. 25 cyclists on their way to los angeles this morning, and the fire Service Awareness bicycle ride. They presented a 5,000 check to the San FranciscoFirefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation before beginning the ride yesterday. Theyre active duty or retired firefighters from several departments in california and some are cancer survivors. New jersey firefighters joined hands this weekend to save a life off the coast of cape may. A smimer who was trying to rescue three struggling swimmers struggled himself. Firefighters formed a human chain to reach all four. They were treated on scene and at a local hospital. Were just about 3 1 2 hours away frame the start of the Great American eclipse. At 5 00 a. M. , were live in Mountain View with all the excitement there about todays huge event. Also, the action students at also, the action students at San Jose State University are its eclipse day. 4 59. Jessica is not here. And because of the weather neither will the eclipse. At least if youre in San Francisco. Sknr for sure, San Francisco. Probably areas outside of San Francisco, it sounds like. Unfortunately, the marine layer grew overnight. Its up to 2200 feet. That means the clouds have moved just about into all neighborhoods this morning except for the napa valley. You can see the cloud cover, the gray there i have overlaid on live doppler 7. Let me break down the day planner. When we come back, well go through a timeline on who will be able to see the eclipse. Heres a look at walnut creek where its cloudy right now. Low to mid 60s at 7 00. 60s at the coast, 70 to 75 noon to 4 00 around the bay. 73 to 79 inland. The eclipse will keep our temperatures down today since were going to go without full sunshine for and taking a look at the roads here this morning. We havent had any major issues so far today