Pete: it is the 7 a. M. Hour of fox & friends weekend starting with a tragedy. In the world of sports as an nhl star and his brother are killed by a suspected drunk driver. Johnny and matthew guy degree s college hockey coach joins us live to honor hair legacy. Rachel: and former president trump rallying voters in pennsylvania and telling voters they re too smart to fall for this back and forth. There s no question i m in favor of banning fracking. I would not ban frack. As vice president, i did the not ban fracking. As president, i will not ban frack. Fracking. Joey: and oklahoma standing up for the flag after a school stopped this student from flying old glory. The second hour of fox & friends weekend, it starts right now. running through our blood. joey: look at that beautiful skyline. Do you know where that is? pete: joey, have you played the skyline game with us before? joey: no, i don t play that game, but i know this skyline. Rachel: can i say it first, joey? joey: go ahead.
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc7 news. Did you see it or hear it . Thunder and lightning here in San Francisco and across the bay area. Rumbling in the north bay,va, p widespread wildfires. Flashing across the night sky in the east bay, lighting up the oakland skyline. Streaking across the south bay where its blamed for sparking on apartment fire. As someone who grew up on midwestern thunderstorms, it was both intense and unusual here. Yeah, eric. You got that right. Abc7 news meteorologist drew tuma joining us now. Right away with what to expect because, drew, this has been wild weekend of weather. Yeah. Certainly this morning is a morning a lot of us are not going to forget anytime soon. Hundreds of lightning strikes lighting up the morning sky earlier today. Live doppler 7 along with satellite showing you the bay area was basically the bullseye for all of the storm activity. Right now the current lightning strikes are in the sierra. But what is h
South. It is applying a lot of moisture and sending it to Northern California. When it interacts with the heat, it creates the thunderstorms and that will likely happen again overnight tonight. The red flag warning does continue until early tomorrow morning for the threat of more. Well go hour by hour and show you the best chance of finding the storms tomorrow and the heat wave continuing. All right, thanks. Now to developing news on all the problems caused by that severe storm. It knocked out power to thousands. But first to the fires including this one in san jose. Fire crews say line started a fire at a sixunit apartment compx. One person was burned out but no one was hurt. Abc7 News Reporter cornell bernard where there was a grass fire. One has now grown to 300 acres. A fierce summer storm packed a punch overnight bringing this. A nonstop line show to all parts of the bay area. Amazing to see but firefighters say all that lightning combined with extreme heat sparked multiple fires.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority a federal agency involved in developing a Coronavirus Vaccine rates as early this year he sounded the alarm about a shortage of testing swabs as well as critical medical supplies like n 95 masks and ventilators but he says his warnings were dismissed lives are endangered and i believe lives were lost in and not only that we were forced to. Procure these supplies from other countries without the right quality standards last month bright was abruptly removed from his position we have the worlds greatest scientist let us lead. Let us speak without fear of retribution for as id and trump dismissing breaks testimony, i dont know. I get still bright has a dire prediction. The covid19 pandemic will get worse of the United States does not develop a National Testing strategy and put in place a plan to distribute a vaccine time is running out because the virus is still spreading everywhere. Im Camila Bernal reporting. Senator richard bur
Today looking at 76 behind concord, somebody went san jose, mystic is oakland as well as San Francisco. We do have a few frost advisories in effect for parts the bay area. Limited visibility, this accident really quick, santa rosa we have exposure here due to an accident, the traffic advisory is in effect on the westbound to celano road we have a crash there in the clearing stages, keep that in mind if you go through 1200 morning drive. A cemetery bridge traffic moving okay, Golden Gate Bridge with a fog advisory as well, that affects parts of the drive on the 101. Also a fog advisory for parts of american canyon, that has the drive and 80 as well as the venetian bridge. We are live at the news desk, new video coming in after an earthquake killed five people. It was a 5. 9 magnitude earthquake. 330 people were injured. This happened yesterday for us in northwest iran it is today there, the village is 250 miles away from the capital so not heavily populated. But 30 homes were destroyed.