first tonight, hunter biden s gun trial begins. the first trial of a child of a sitting president. the first lady there in that courtroom. also developing, president biden preparing a new executive order, a crackdown on the mexico border. it would shut down the border immediately to asylum seekers if daily migrant numbers hit 2,500. and what we re learning about this. in new york city tonight, those two nypd officers shot and wounded. chasing a robbery suspect. one shot in the chest, saved by his bulletproof vest. what authorities have now revealed about the suspect. this major heat wave already building tonight. temperatures well into the triple digits across several states. and the wildfire burning in california. the swimmer attacked by a shark off the coast. bitten on the chest, arm, and hand. witnesses on how the swimmer survived. israel s war with hamas. tonight, the israeli military now confirming the deaths of four more hostages in gaza. here in the u.s. to
Marty we begin this morning with breakiing news. 71 people are dead after a plane crashed southeast of moscow. Here are new pictures of debris from the crash. Russias Emergencies Ministry says. Those on board included. 65 passengers and six crew members. The plane disappeared shortly after it took off from moscow. marty back here in the states. At least three people have died after a helicopter crashed in the grand canyon. It happened yesterday afternoon. Police say the chopper was carrying a pilot and six passengers. It reportedly crashed near quartermaster canyon. Rescue efforts are becoming difficult to due rugged terrain and poor conditions. The National Transportation safety board is investigating. marty closer to home now. New this morning. An unoccupied classic car caught fire after it was hit by a train in atherton. The crash happened just after 8 oclock last night. At the Railroad Crossing at fairoaks lane. Firefighters rushed to put out the fire burning the 1950s austin heale
Looking at the video definitely that is what it is. So hopefully we wont lose anything. Lets hope that is the case. You are great to come on with us. Thank you. Good luck out there to all the crews working this fire. If you have taken photos or video of this fire please share it by posting on social media with the hashtag abc 7 now. We will stay on top of that during this half hour. We will continue to stream this live. Thanks for joining us. Im cheryl jennings. And im dan ashley. Lets check in with sandhya patel for weather conditions around the fire. Always critical. Absolutely. Wind is a big factor as you take a look at the Current Conditions near the fire it is breezy. Gusts nonexistent but steady wind out of the west northwest to 16 miles per hour. Its hot. 82 degrees and relative humidity coming up. It is 41 . With the west wind this is moving some of the smoke towards the tracy area but also out towards some areas where there arent many People Living which is a good factor there
As you move east of livermore you have climbed into the a mass, and you can look at the winds, gusting to 35 Miles Per Hour from the southwest so we have all of the Wind Turbines because of the wind of the as far as the wind this afternoon, add ten Miles Per Hour to this, the forecast for livermore and as we get higher we will get up to around 21 at 6 00, dropping down into the teams and we will be in the my 20s with gusts into the my 30 as we head into the afternoon hours. For the rest of us, we are starting off with clouds and the marine layer is back with the day planner mild, upper 60s to 66 to 80 with total sunshine other than the coast and mainly cloudy at the coast. Now, the commute. Leyla . Hello, as we look are our emeryville camera to the eastern span of the bay bridge you can see how quiet it is. That is how we like to start. Traffic can be seen from the east bay, and still, just a trickle use leave the east bay heading into San Francisco. We do have an accident, however, an
Coming down with this storm. Up to 20 inches of rain expected as it barrels its way through the bahamas. Thats whats next. A 20foot storm surge for the island. This is the largest evacuation in the history of the bahamas. Several islands are being evacuated, mandatory evacuations. They had some time to try to get out but 20 inches of rain already came down for places like Dominican Republic and puerto rico, still going to continue to come down through the bahamas. Heres where its tracking. This is the turn that we are all watching. This will determine whether or not its going to hit florida directly or go just to the east of it. The spaghetti plots show it there. If a cold front comes down it could help push this storm into the atlantic. The models are looking like its going straight for the carolina. Coming up well have more on the local forecast in a bit. Now to our storm watch. The [ indiscernible ] will hold a meeting about the island of st. Martin. Its a former dutch colony. Aeria