Four u. S. Fighter jets flew in to hit eight targets. F18s delivered 500 pound bombs. This just tonight, the u. S. Has deliver add second drop of food and water to iraqi ref few gees. Were tracking this very fastmoving story. Reporter the first strike, 12 45 p. M. Iraq time, broad daylight. Two heavily armed f18 fighter jets launching from the persian gulf roaring high above Northern Iraq where isis militants were at work shelling forces trying to defend erbil where 150 american diplomats and military advisers are based. They dropped the bombs on the isis mobile artillery unit. You let the bomb go straight and level and the bomb finds its way to the target. Reporter then four hours later, it was an armed drone launching a hell fire missile. 6 20 p. M. , four more f18s targeting a sevenvehicle militant convoy. A total of eight bombs dropped neutralizing the convey and a mortar launcher. The strikes being called as needed to stop the advance on erbil. Meanwhile, that other mission, to save lives on that mile high mountain. Tens of thousands of members of a religious minority trapped for days. Today, these images. Iraqi helicopters mobbed by the people, children lifted up to safety. The u. S. Helping too, dropping in food and water in the cover of night. These cargo airplanes are not very maneuverable. We turn to the monster storm that battered hawaii. It downed power lines and trees, closed roads and sent hundreds of people to evacuation centers. No deaths or major injuries have been reported. It still looks stormy there hours after iselle passed. With more on julio, lets turn to spencer christian. Heres a satellite radar composite image showing where iselle is right now. Its moving away from the island. Still producing rain, though and gusty winds for the entire chain of islands after dumping up to 14 inches of rain. Flash flood watch is still in effect. Now on we go, take a look at whats coming up next. This is hurricane julio which at the moment is a category two hurricane packing very powerful winds. The good news is julio is expected to take a path north of the islands. Perhaps far enough north that it will have no significant affect on weather conditions there. Tropical storms and hurricanes generally lose a lot of their steam as they move over land areas. That was particularly true with iselle because she moved over high terrain. It slowed the storm down enough and did take a lot of punch out of the storm. Tonight, vacationing families and residents feeling the pain now. Tonight, theres a new worry. Will that earth, soaked now with rain water, trigger landslides. Were on the big island tonight. Reporter the first of a double weather punch landed squarely on the big island of hawaii. Tonight, the island is battered and bruised but still standing. Utility crews are out working to clear trees. Anybody here . Reporter and completely blocked island highways. Access in and out of towns cut off. Hundreds left their homes for shelters overnight. Power outages put nearly 25,000 in the dark. Its scary. You dont really experience winds like that here. Reporter riding out the storm overnight, we watched those wind speeds jump up. Were seeing winds over 30 miles per hour. Its now midnight and were seeing gusts up to 50 miles per hour. But the big story, all that big water. Some areas soaked with a foot of rain. This is Rainbow Falls yesterday and heres what it looks like now. So much water, streets were flooded. And as the storm moves east, world famous beach is empty. But amid the damage, some beauty. This rainbow on the island of maui. This will give you an idea of the danger and power of all that water. The level of this river has risen 13 feet in just the last 12 hours. Right now, there are flash flood watches across the islands. Emergency workers here in the bay area are communicating with crews on the ground in hawaii. The Regional ResponseCoordination Center in oakland is working on the response. They have been glued to their screens displaying satellite images of the big island. All right. Now lets move to a major wildfire that has just exploded in the last 24 hours growing to more than 5,400 acres. The fire is burning south of the community. Flames jumped across the eel river yesterday and are now spreading fast east. Firefighters are preparing to protect a neighborhood in danger. Officials issued a warning to north bay residents that we may see smoke drifting into this area from the fire. Six months ago, the governor declared a drought and called for everyone to do their part. But this far down the line, it looks like cow well is not doing its part to conserve. Reporter its part of what makes the uc Berkeley Campus so special, the acres and acres of lush green trees. But in the midst of a serious drought, it seems the lawns here on campus are a tad too healthy. Weve cut back 50 on the irrigation on campus. Reporter she tells us the grass is green despite significant cutbacks in campus water usage. Saying they only water the grass here at night. Water used overall on campus is down 5 to 9 since the governor declared the drought official at the end of january, which is great. Were working hard to reduce even more. In the residence halls, its down 30 in the last six years. Reporter irrigation of the lawns around the state capital in sacramento has been cut off completely. There are even signs to explain to visitors why the glass looks so bad. She says some water users are waking up to the seriousness of the situation a little slower than others. The governor asked for 20 , but some of the state institutions havent gone that far. Well, we all need to be doing it frankly. There is no excuse. This is a drought. Its a severe drought. Reporter at uc berkeley there is a plan to reduce consumption even further. Six of these lawns have been identified for removal. In berkeley, laura anthony, abc 7 news. Well, this has been a really exciting and fun day for all of us at abc 7. Heres a look from sky 7 hd this afternoon as we were building a new playground with our partners, our Parent Company disney and the Nonprofit Group kaboom. Abc 7 News Reporter wane freedman takes you behind the scenes and a look at the finished product. Reporter sign in, get ready to work. You hear the squeaks of that wheel beaa row . The bones in more of a few of us may sound the same. Weve heard a lot of that today. Im doing okay. Reporter he does now as does everyone here. Its a bolt going into the guardrail joint. This is going to be a one in a lifetime experience. Im involved in being a part of making my community better. Reporter its not unlike one of those Old Fashioned barn raisings, but in this case a playground. In six hours . Its important we show people we can do anything when we come together. Reporter he works for kaboom, a nonprofit that takes the best ideas of local kids and parents and helps them build playgrounds around the company. Our Parent Company has partnered with them to make almost 50 such playgrounds. There was an old playground that was falling apart. There wasnt funding available. Our company got involved. Reporter the subtle beauty in an event like this is that none of us came here as experts, but we left that way. He might have somebody all thumbs and somebody else thats all fingers. It works out. Reporter heres the proof, after six hours of sweat equity, the final product. A playground designed by its people for its people and a neighborhood game changer in the most literal since. Abc 7 news. What a great day. We have a lot more ahead. Coming up, the Music Festival that has attracted some big name acts to the bay area this weekend. Were going to show you some of its only in San Francisco features. Also nasas latest test flight. How it might one day deliver large payloads to the surface of mars. The biggest and the brighters, the second installment of this female announcer sundays your last chance to save big during sleep trains triple choice sale. For a limited time, you can choose to save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic mattress sets. Or choose 300 in free gifts with sleep trains most popular tempurpedic mattresses. You can even choose 48 months interestfree financing on the new tempurchoice, with headtotoe customization. The triple choice sale ends sunday at sleep train. Sleep train your ticket to a better nights sleep a big weekend for music lovers. Outside lands kicks off today. It is a tradition that San Francisco that is uniquely San Francisco. Jonathan bloom reports now from Golden Gate Park with all the big festivities. Reporter the musical acts are one of a kind, sometimes the fans come in pairs. Tell me your names. Molly and molly. Reporter they already know how to deal with the crush of people. Excuse me. You just have to push. I agree, yes, thats the strategy. Reporter now in its 7th year, its quickly become a tradition. Ive been to every single one. Reporter every single one. And my wife has been to the last four. Three. Reporter did you make her do that . Absolutely. Reporter so many of the artists are known the world over. Its undeniably San Francisco. Just look at the food. We really set the bar for having restaurants and food that wasnt just your average food. Reporter what are you eating there . The bets cheese burger. Yeah, its all right. Reporter just like the city, the festival is high tech. You can pay for anything here using your phone. If you run out of juice, you can even pay for electricity. Thanks to the citys bottled water ban, theres no paying for water. Its like 8. Its a lot nicer to have free water available to you all the time. Reporter what could be more San Francisco than this crazy weather. Its all about the layers. Look, the sun just came out. You know, you dont know from minute to minute whats going to happen. Reporter they might be feeling a different kind of walma warmth. Just the vibe and the energy here. Reporter you can see the energy is still intensifying behind me. Kanye west takes the stage as this evenings headliner, sunday in the evening, the killers will wrap it all up. Still a hundred or so bands to go. As you can see, the weather seems to be holding up just fine. Jonathan bloom, abc 7 news. If youre more into jazz, youre also in luck. The san jose summer fest starts tonight. This is a taste of whats to come this weekend. They will play on 12 stages at venues around downtown san jose. Organizers say theyve put together their best yet. Were getting ready xnt for new age. This festival is the most latin festival in the United States with over 25 acts. But also another 75 playing all kinds of straight ahead big band blues and our jazz beyond stage where were premiering a lot of young artists. The festival runs through sunday. So a lot of great things happening around the bay area this weekend. Spencer is tracking what looks like a nice weekend. Its going to be a fantastic weekend for any kind of activity. Outdoor, indoor, going to sleep. I like that. I like that too. Heres live doppler 7 hd. We have clear skies over the bay area right now. Just little patches of fog offshore. We may see them become better organized, but right now, the coast is clear. Looking west ward, you dont see much of a hint of low clouds off in the distance there as we generally do at this hour. 61 in San Francisco, 63 in oakland. 55 at half moon bay. Check this out. Lovely view of the downtown skyline without the low clouds and fog. Its currently 68 degrees in santa rosa. 70 degrees in fairfield. And one more live view. Once again at this hour, we often see low clouds and fog working their way out over the city, but not tonight. Its pretty clear so far. These are our forecast features. We do expect coastal fog during the nights and mornings over the next couple days. There may be drizzly spots on sunday morning. Heres the water vapor satellite image showing low pressure systems offshore. Probably will merge into one weak low pressure system over the weekend. Just Strong Enough to push moisture into the bay area that could produce a sprinkle or two. Once again, spotty drizzle could develop mainly near the coast. Thats about all well see. Then well have mainly sunny skies in the daytime hours. Overnight, look for a little bit more fog developing near the coast and perhaps even locally inland. Low temperatures mainly in the upper 50s to low 60s. Highs tomorrow in the upper 70s to mid80s. On the peninsula, 77 at redwood city. Low to mid60s on the coast from pa sif ka to half moon bay. Downtown, a high of 66 tomorrow. 64 in the sunset district. In the north bay, look for coastal highs in the mid60s. 82 at napa. On the east bay, 72 at oakland. And the inland east bay will see highs in the mid to upper 80s. 89 at brentwood. Heres the sevenday forecast and what a lovely week ahead its going to be. High temperatures through tuesday will be mainly in the upper 80s inland and mid70s around the bay. A few degrees warmer on wednesday, thursday, and friday with 90 or above inland and upper 60s on the coast. Its going no be a lovely week ahead. We could use the rain, but were going to enjoy this weather. Still to come am i a little too close . The 5yearold looking for a i love having a free checked bag. With my united mileageplus explorer card. I have saved 75 in checked bag fees. Priority boarding is really important to us. You can just get on the plane and relax. I love to travel, no foreign transaction fees means real savings. 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I have to look at the cameras so much. I cant have fun and nonsense. Nobody can arrest me. Not even a cop. All right. Who did he lose to . Well, a 16yearold. Tufts younger 2yearold brother says hes ready for next year. We have a budding political family obviously. Another half hour of abc 7 news at 9 00 just moments away. A rash of break ins that are similar. Also, the ebola virus and the urgent new warning tonight. And a surprise appearance at facebook headquarters tonight. A teenager who has inspi. We need to break up. Is it the biting . Cuz i can stop . No i love you and your show. Its cable. Customers are more satisfied with uverse. Switch and we can Stay Together forever. Forever . Ow. Im not gonna lie to you. Its also the biting. Break up with cable. Choose uverse tv from 19 a month for 2 years. He broke into a side door. Trashed a couple places. You think you live in a good neighborhood, but that whole sense of security is gone. Good evening. Well begin with neighbors on edge. Theyre going through a rash of home burglaries and cannot rely on police to solve the crimes. Vick lee has the story. Reporter the breakin happened in the Late Afternoon yesterday. No one was home. The burglar or dollars used a small pry bar. They stole all of this womans mothers jewelry. You just feel violated. Reporter she says it took a long time for an officer to respond to their 911 call. When he did come, she was in for another surprise. I just found out theres no burglary unit and nobody to really follow up on it. Reporter the officer said all he could do was take the report and file it. That it was a result of the Police Staffing shortage in san jose. When the neighbors got wind of it, they banned together and began their own investigation. They found that just before the burglary, two women were k knocking on doors asking for donations. She left immediately when the donation was declined. Usually theyre a little bit more persistent. Reporter something else, the cameras caught a dlark darkcolored sedan as if the driver was casing out homes. He wasnt looking for parking. Reporter tran gave the video to the investigating officer. In the meantime, she called adt Security Systems to install an alarm system with cameras. She hopes her familys sense of security will return. She also hopes the burglar will be caught and her mothers jewelry will be returned. Abc 7 news. The death of james brady, the former press secretary to president Ronald Reagan has been ruled a homicide. They say bradys death was caused by injuries he received after he was shot 33 years ago during a botched assassination attempt. The assassin was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He could face a new federal murder charge as a result of todays ruling. Now to the deadly Ebola Outbreak and and your gent new warning tonight. They are declaring an International Public health emergency. Its only the third time theyve taken this kind kind of rare dramatic step. Nearly 1,000 people around the world have died while here at home all eyes are on two americans infected and fighting for their lives. Reporter for the very first time, were hearing tonight from one of the american missionaries sick with ebola now fighting for their lives at this atlanta hospital. He says im writing this update from my eyeslation room. I thank god for his mercy as i wrestled with this terrible disease. They were flown 5,000 miles from. He said, i immediately isolated myself. When the result was positive, i remember a deep sense of peace. God was reminding me he will give me everything i need to be faithful to him. Today we heard too from nancy writebols husband. He says she received a third dose of the experimental serum, but her family still has to speak with her through a wall and intercome. I want to be with her and hold her and thank the lord together. Reporter one good sign, shes asked for starbucks and her sons have delivered. Her husband still in liberia hoping to rush state side. They say its important to remember they chose to work in the ebola hot zone because of the incredible need. Californias whooping cough epidemic meantime continues to escalate, and it could get even worse as kids head back to school this month. There have been nearly 7,000 cases so far this year. Thats nearly triple last years cases. The counties have substantially higher numbers of cases than other koebts across the state. The dark red indicates counties with the highest percentage. There have been more than 2,000 in the bay area this year. Teen peace activist took part in an online Digital Forum today. Facebook provided this video of the visit. Facebooks chief operating officer cheryl san berg moderated the discussion. The 17yearold activist took questions from people around the world. 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They are trying to figure outweighs to slow down this saucer as it plummets to earth. This was just a shakeout fly. We wanted to see if we could fly it through the atmosphere. The leaders discussed the results of their test flight this morning. This is like the second step of a 12step program to get to the point where we can put very, very large things on mars. Reporter i got a close up look earlier this summer as it was being assembled. During the test flight in june, the inflatable rings worked like a charm. It performed amazing. Reporter but the enormous parachute descent grated. The shape of the parachute we had was not robust. Reporter essentially it failed. Scientists here say that the flight was still very much a success. This is technology development. If everything worked perfectly, you probably werent pushing hard enough. Reporter another test flight is scheduled for next year. Abc 7 news. While were talking about all things space, this sunday, well see a treat. This years biggest and brightest full moon. Its called super moon. We saw a full moon last month, there is technically only one super moon a year. Its going to be closest. Because its closer and larger in the sky, its going to appear a little bit brighter. Its like holding a mirror a little bit closer to your face. Experts recommend going outside right at moon rise. Thats going to be about 8 00 p. M. On sunday. It will also look biggest when it is next to things youre familiar with. Make sure you step outside about 8 00 and check it out. One last time, lets talk about the weekend forecast. All right. That super moon is not to be missed. Mainly clear skies across the bay area right now, although some areas of fog overnight. Statewide tomorrow, very warm and hot conditions. 103 at fresno. 79 in los angeles. Here in the bay area, a mainly sunny day after a few low clouds overnight near the coast. Highs from mid60s at the coast to mid and upper 70s around the bay. Just a warm one. By the way, were going to have nice days ahead for the remainder of the weekend for our outside lands Music Festival. May see late night and Early Morning clouds. Both days, saturday and sunday, sunny skies with temperatures in the 60s, cooling down to 50s in the evening hours. Heres the sevenday forecast. Well have basically a steady pattern of highs inland in the upper 80s through tuesday. Mid70s around the bay. Warming up just a couple degrees on wednesday, thursday, and friday. No heat wave, just pleasantly warm weather. You cant beat it. Levi stadium celebrated another first today when the 49ers new home opened for public tours. The 49ers tell us tours are sold out for this weekend. They feature a visit to the new team museum, club seating and hyped the scenes areas like the cheer leaders locker rooms. Its 25 for adults and last about 90 minutes. It is a state of the art facility. You attended the soccer game. Its very pretty. Yeah. The cheerleaders are not there. We should point out dont want to bait and switch people. Its nicer when theyre there. Moving along. We got our first look at the raiders in preseason action. Raiders in preseason action. Derek carr making his nflounds] the wait is over for even faster internet. Xfinity is now doubling the internet speed. On two of our most popular plans. Xfinity continues to innovate, bringing you the fastest, most reliable internet. Period. Xfinity internet from comcast, now double the speed. Coming up tonight at 11 00, a local arrest has people claiming police brutality. The real issue may be what happened after the cameras are turned off. Plus, heart break and im not talking about tom petty. The real problems facing concertgoers this year. Thats at 11 00. Larry is here to talk football. Raiders . Yeah. Kind of like the 49ers. Exactly the same feeling. They open the preseason tonight in minnesota. It was not pretty. First series coming out. False start, penalty. That set the tone for a mistakefilled evening. Raider nation, though making the trip to minnesota. Vikings went 70 yards and ten plays. 70 minnesota. Matt, 37, 21 yards. Lot of drops by raider receivers. One carry, but it was a good one. Derek carr, his nfl debut. 1016. 74 yards. Off the hands and right into the arms of curt. Just threw it too high. The raiders finally did score with a minute and a half to go in the game. But the raiders would lose by a final of 106. They got a lot of stuff to clean up. This is the last thing that the giants need right now. Brandon belt goes back on the disabled list because of concussion related symptoms. So hell be out a week. Hunter pens and michael por is, important to warm up properly. Top of the fifth, high deep and aloha. A two run shot. 20 royals. The wheels come up in the sixth. Throws it to nobody in particular and matt duffy throws it back to nobody no particular. Base hit into right field. Scores on that play, drops to 139. Giants fall 42. The dodgers also lost today. As and twins, smile and say world series or bust. A rocket to third, Josh Donaldson makes the stop. Scoreless into the fifth. Bases loaded. He is the catalyst. Finds the gap in left center. Everybody scores 30 on a crisp triple. This is a double to the gap. Two more score. As were cruising. However, minnesota has stormed back with five of their own. It is now as 65 in the ninth. Lets go to the pitch. Earthquakes and galaxy. 18th minute. Near impossible angle there. Thats the way they do it in danville, baby. This game would end in a 22 tie. For years, we talked about tiger woods and his pursuit of Jack Nicholas who has 18 major wins. This weekend, jack himself said he thinks roy mcelroy may win more. He shoots a four under 67. Tiger woods not around for the rest of the weekend. Double bogey on six. Goes to six over. On seven, pulls this tee shot. His back is hurting again. Second shot from the mud. Tiger is 74 shoots six over. Jason day around of the day. Eagle on seven. Hes at minus eight. Ricky fouler might make it three in a row. This close to an ace. Fowler at search under. 67 for lefty. He is tied for sixth place. Three back of mcelroy. A lot of good names on that leader board. Former warriors greats Mitch Richmond were among those inducted into the Basketball Hall of fame tonight in springfield, massachusetts. Richmond part of the exciting teams along with tim hardaway and chris mullin. Too bad he got traded. Mitch today thanks his family. My grandmother who never missed any of my games. I never held it against her that her favorite player was larry byrd. Thanks, larry. Come on. They were a very good team. Theyve got very funny characters. Among them catcher steven vote showcasing his skills as an nba referee. I got a double tech. I got a tech on rosie for that pink shirt. Watch your mouth. [ laughter ] no shot. I get paid to do one thing when im out there. Thats oh officiate an nba basketball game. I dont care who has the ball. That rule book is going to be followed to a t. You push off, you push off. I dont care who you are. Hes nuts. Abc 7 sports brought to you by toyota. So the deal is his wife is a High School Basketball coach. Coaches girls. So he knows the rules. Charging going the other way. I like the high step maneuver. Hes got the little prans. Its very, very good. That is this edition of abc 7 news at 9 00. We appreciate your time as always. Thanks for the company and stay connected any time you wish, abc 7 news continues now online, on twitter, facebook with the new news app. See you again at 11 00 over on the big 7. City college has a space simulator. We know, close the door. As i was saying, on monday, city college will be unveiling the city college cosmic pioneer, their very own orbital launch simulator. Pretty soon, they will have an astronaut on their brochure,