Will go unsolved. We continue to follow the story and have the latest information on the situation in washington on our abc 7 news app. You can download it any time and enable push alerts for updates on your phone or device. In sacramento today, a group of moms and gun violence rallied outside the area to close a loophole in the background check law. Californians are currently able to borrow guns from anyone they know personally without undergoing background checks. To think i can loan a gun to anybody i want without having a background check, without knowing anything about them, this is crazy. Its mindboggling that Something Like this could happen. As part of the new law working through the legislature, loaning a gun to a friend or acquaintance would require a background check on the person accepting the loan. The Santa Clara County district toesh is going to push for a bill in sacramento making it tougher for, in his words, the next brock turner. Hes referring to the exstanford swimm
So it feels a lot more refreshing out there than we did this time yesterday. Still, a wide range in temperatures. Believe it or not, 95 in brentwood. Thats cooler than yesterday. Were at 85 in concord. 75 san jose. A cool 66 in oakland and San Francisco, with that gusty sea breeze, a cool 59 degrees. Future tracker temperatures will show you with the sea breeze, its going to cool all communities off. Were not hanging on to the heat like previous days. Do not get used to this refreshing cool weather. Coming up, we have much warmer air moving in of the ill show you when that arrives and that full accuweather forecast in a few minutes. Thank you, drew. The hot weather is causing more concern about fires. Brian huck tweeted this photo of a oneacre fire in livermore along 580. It began just before 1 00. It was put out quickly. If you see news where you live, send us the pictures. Because of the heat and fire concerns, a park in san jose will be restricted. No barbecues or open flames bb per
That car fire, a brush and that brush turned into a brushfire around red wood estates. That caused some evacuations we are told now though that those people are being allowed back to their homes partly because of quick water drops. Some of the water being picked up by helicopters in nearby lexington reservoir and then dropped over the hills and over the brush in red wood estates. As can you see from our chopper shot, most of the fire is gone. It is now smoke they are dealing with. Again fire is downgraded and people let back in and the worst we can tell you is if youre southbound anywhere south of los gatos it is a while and we still have no estimated time that freeway will be going south towards red wood estates. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. We see this develop and wined down for the last couple of hours. We will show you a live traffic map now again one lane of northbound 17 reopened but all southbound lanes as scott was mentioning closed. Can you see all the maps in los gatos. I
Republicans are standing firm. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. No one can remember anything like this happening before. No, republicans are call it a political stunt. The democrats promise to stay Till Congress takes action. All cameras and microphones were shutoff leaving cspan to pick up periscope live streams from the chamber. Heres more everywhere abc News Reporter megan hughes. Be in order. Reporter a turn of events in the house of representatives wednesday night. Members will record their vote by electronic device. Republicans pushing forward with a previously scheduled vote unrelated to gun reform. Ignoring a sitin by democrats that shut down the house since the morning hours. Well call on the leadership of the house to bring common sense gun control legislation to the house floor. Give us a vote. Let us vote. Reporter the sensational protest democrats interrupt republicans. Declaring theyll sit in on the house floor till paul ryan allows a vote on gun cont
In addition to the four cases from friday there are now 10 new cases of local transmission concentrations in miami. They have contracted it at home of the not by traveling to distant land, about you the continental united states. The Florida Governor vow vowing to stem the spread of the disease. We have asked the cdc to send an Emergency Response team to the state. Pregnant women telling them to avoid travel to the hot zone. That has little comfort for those living in the area. Right now we really would like to see more action. Reporter meanwhile, Health Responders are going doortodoor spraying pesticides and testing floridians. When something starts we nip it in the bud. Reporter these are the top suggestions for eliminating standing water. No standing water. No standing water and no standing water. Reporter they are testing the people within the onemile radius. So far they have found nine with an active case of the virus. Thank you. Breaking news in new bedford. Newscenter 5 is live