Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Overnight, lightning strikes off the coast as a Severe Thunderstorm Warning moves across the bay area. Were bracing for another day of intense recordbreaking heat after more rolling Power Outages affect hundreds of thousands of people. Good morning, everyone. It is sunday, august 16. Im liz kreutz. Thank you for joining us. Those thunderstorms were seen off the coast of santa cruz, on the peninsula, near pacifica, and all across the bay area overnight. From the lightning to the winds to the heat to now these brush fires were tracking, were following it all. Lets get over to meteorologist lisa argen with a look at whats happening right now. Lisa . Hey, liz. You know, when we had one of these thunderstorms around fairfield, the temperature went from the 80s to 100. That was a heat burst that came down from the upper levels of the atmosphere with a thunderstorm. Just amazing whether the around here. As we go in c
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President acts like its not there the coronavirus numbers are terrible. I think larry the way i look at this and im not a doctor im not a Health Care Professional i look at most of these public issues through the lens of commonsense and history and i suspect that this thing is going to go up and down now it will cease fire alleys and spikes and valleys for some time so you know i dont think that its a major crisis that we see some of these numbers going back up well probably see him go back down and maybe go back up again until things settle down for the year though you were an analyst for the cia whats your reaction to reports that russia has offered bounties to delegate channeling forces for killing Coalition Forces and includes american troops. If somethings fishy in this larry it just doesnt make a lot of sense to me 1st of all i have not seen any information that the intelligence if it is accurate intelligence has been verified so i think its has been released for political purpos
Is accurate intelligence is really just doesnt make any sense why would russia become involved in trying to go after u. S. Troops indirectly when the u. S. Under the trumpet ministration is taking steps to extricate itself from afghanistan if it doesnt ring true larry well who could explain putins. Well i guess. We do have some folks at the at the cia where i used to work years ago who are expert in trying to figure out what goes on inside the kremlin and inside the you know the minds of these former k. G. B. Officials. But it just doesnt make sense from russia standpoint to do Something Like this and the timing doesnt fit and you know you get reports back when i was with the agency years ago you get all sorts of raw intelligence reports but you know every time you get a report even if it is somewhat alarmist you dont go running to the president and you dont go running to the congress you wait until you can verify it one way or the other and then you notify the officials youre the pres
President ial candidate hes also the president and c. E. O. Of the warren force one Education Foundation and he joins me from georgia but the president actually i guess. The coronavirus numbers are terrible. I think larry the way i look at this and im not a doctor im not a Health Care Professional i look at most of these public issues through the lens of commonsense and history and i suspect that this thing is going to go up and down now it will cease fire alleys and spikes and valleys for some time so you know i dont think that its a major crisis that we see some of these numbers going back up well probably see him go back down and maybe go back up again until things settle down for the year. But you were an analyst for the cia whats your reaction to reports that russia has offered bounties to dalla ben a link forces push killing Coalition Forces and includes american troops. If somethings fishy in this marriott just doesnt make a lot of sense to me 1st of all i have not seen any info