Digit lead over President Trump. He paddled furiously over to his Postal Service showdown. Wife, posted up on her board and nancy pelosi calls the house back into session. Punched the shark in the snout. The postmaster general, a trump morning at the beach turning into a fight for survival. Donor, in the hot seat. Democrats accuse him of trying the patient has numerous deep to silence millions of voters. Lacerations to just above the this morning the big question about the election. Will mailin ballots be knee to the calf. Delivered in time to be counted . Reporter 35yearold wildfires raging in the Chantelle Doyle attacked by a west. At least 94 burning from texas to washington state. Tenfoot great white shark, the one massive blaze spawning this shark latching on to her leg fire tornado. Refusing to let her go but her husband, mark, surfing nearby dangerous triple degree saw it. It hit her like with a force temperatures and more than 100 and threw her off the board and lightning strik
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
Breaking overnight, at least three officers shot in a standoff in texas. The suspect barricaded inside holding multiple family members hostage. What we know about the standoff right now. Plus, in the dark, the dangerous heat wave in california leading to rolling blackouts and massive wildfires. Back on the court. The first round of the nba playoffs starts today. What to expect in the bubble. And the new shortage that could be a big problem for pizza lovers. Good monday morning. Im mona kosar abdi. And im will reeve in for kenneth moton. Good to be with you, mona, but we begin with yet another grim milestone in the battle against the coronavirus, more than 170,000 american lives now lost to covid19 and there are 5. 4 million confirmed cases nationwide. College campuses across the country are having a tough time coping with new outbreaks as students ignore social distancing rules and attend jam packed parties and more grade schools are being forced to switch to Remote Learning with a gro
Heavier. So that is more than likely send thoif indications on any reaching the ground. Power outages or other breaking and you can see just off the news as it happens. Happening today, we expect coast, this is a rapidly forming governor newsollpowim ekal tut t thunderstorm, those six or seven waveovid1 lightning bolts within just the last few minutes. So our action is igniting a ind mi ancht live here and ool throughout the morning. These will stay off the shore and head more towards the north also on our website and app. Education is one of the five bay, but more is developing south and they could roam off key areas that were focusing on as we work to build a better bay into other parts of the bay. Area and this week thousands will start the new school year but it is definitely near the with distance learning. Coast in the north bay that has the best chance of those showers the San Francisco unified school and thunderstorms today. District will have its first all of us will be hot on
Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser