Centers. Several bay areas will have cooling centers open today. You can find the lowsest to you by going to our website, abc7news. Com. It is 4 30 on the dot f. Youre just joining us, lets get a quick update on weather and traffic. These temperatures look a lot like yesterday because theyre going to be the same, maybe a degree warmer or two in some areas. 56 to 66. A little cooling left. This is the 7 00 temperature. 70 to 74 along the coast. 84 to 92 from noon to four. Still in the 80s and 90s at 7 00. Dont forget, poor air quality is possible. All around, find comft. Inn side if you can. Taking a look at the bay bridge toll plaza at 4 31 on this thursday morning. Minor delays with cars stacking up in the cash paying lanes. No metering lights yet. We have road work out there. Slow and go on the nimitz freeway between 238 up towards san leandro. Speeds up der ten miles an hour. Once you get past that, youre at the limit as you make your way into oakland. This morning Six Philadelphia
Of people their power. The controlled takedown of three cooling plants went a little out of control when some of the debris hit a power line. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 19th. So here we are. Trevor ault, first time on the anchor desk. Yeah. How do you feel . I feel great. For the fact that weve got a combined half a week of experience on this show anchoring today, i think things are going pretty well. Whoohoo yeah. I was just going to say, were getting to know each other a little better. From ohio, from philadelphia. Neither of us parents. End of list. Pretty good, though. There you go, welcome. Thank you, appreciate it. Lets get to all the stories happening and were going to begin this half hour with the mass shooting threats and the concerns of copycat attacks following the el paso and dayton attacks. Tristan wicks was arrested after he allegedly sent a series of Text Messages threatening a mass shooting. Police say they got a tip from an exgirlfriend an
Help from their best friends. Announcer from abc news in new york, this is america this morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with the aftermath of that fiery plane crash involving nascar legend Dale Earnhardt jr. And his family. And investigators are getting to work at the crash scene in northeastern tennessee today. This is what theyll be working with. Look at this image of that burnedout remains of the private jet, which rolled off the runway and burst into flames. Earnhardt, his wife, their daughter and the two pilots all made it out alive. This morning the investigation just beginning into why this jet carrying Dale Earnhardt jr. And his family erupted into flames just after landing in tennessee. Its a private jet. They just pulled a baby out of there. Reporter that baby was the earnhardts 15monthold daughter. With everyone safely out it took just moments for the plane carrying 1,000 gallons of fuel to be fully engulfed. The first thing when yo
Mid 80s inland and by later on in the afternoon we are still in the 90s. So the heat will be today, the hottest day of the week, looking at 80s and the bay and the cooldown not until monday. We will talk in detail about that in a few minutes, chris. Lisa, thank you. New overnight, one person is in the hospital after a big rig crashed and rolled on to its side on highway 101 in San Francisco. It happened just before 12 30 in the southbound lanes near zuckerberg and vermont street, known as the hospital curve. The crash closed three of the four lanes. It is now reoped. Happening now, Tropical Storm barry is closing in this morning. This is a live look at louisiana where the storm is bringing 65mileperhour winds. Barry is expected to make landfall after today as a category one hurricane. The most dangerous threat is the chance of extremely heavy rainfall which will cause major flash flooding this weekend. As much as two feet of rain is possible in louisiana. Some of the rain will expand i
But for mount tam a pretty sunrise on the way. Looking at the clouds clearing to the coast. 60s there midday. We will look at mid 80s inland, upper 70s around the bay. 90s have arrived since yesterday inland, continuing today, 80s around the bay with cooling on happen for the second half of the weekend but today will be the hottest day of the week. We will talk about the up isser time spread from the coast to the inland valleys and the week chris. Lisa, thank you. New overnight, one person is in the hospital after a big rig crashed and rolled on to its side on highway 101 in San Francisco. It happened just before 12 30 this morning in the south bay lanes near Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and vermont street, known as hospital curve. The crash closed three of the four lanes. They have since reoped. It is unclear what caused the truck to crash. Happening now, Tropical Storm barry is closing in this morning. It is a live look at louisiana where the storm is bringing 65mileperh