People in and around athens, greece this aft greece. So far no reports of damage or injuries. Lyft and uber drivers are ready to make some noise this want to b considered employees and enjoy all the benefits. Abc 7 News Reporter anser hassan live at uber headquarters. Good morning, anser. Reporter good morning. As you mentioned, uber and lyft drivers dont want to be considered contract workers anymore. They said if they were made employees, they would likely get more benefits and higher pay. The drivers have been protesting for the past several months. Today is very specific to California State Assembly bill 5. Several years ago the Dynamex Corporation was sued, they were sued because they were accused of wrongfully classifying workers as independent contractors. We spoke to an uber driver back in may. He says he makes about 200 a day. But after expenses, he claims its just not enough to live on. I love this industry. I love the driving. I love meeting people, a living wage. Were asking for benefits, you know, such as medical, dental, you know. Reporter back in june uber ceo and lyft cofounders wrote an editorial. They say turning independent workers into employees wont fix the problem. One of the solutions the company is proposing is to form a Drivers Association with lawmakers and labor groups. The protest is set to begin out here at 10 30. Reporting live, anser hassan, abc 7 news. New developments in the case of a man San FranciscoPolice Called the ride share rapist. A judge has yet to decide whether dna taken from the suspect can be used as evidence. Police used dna to link lazo to attacks on four women. Investigators say he posed as a driver for a ride hailing service. A public defender says police illegally got a sample of his dna during a traffic stop last year. After more than three days of arguments, a judge announced yesterday hell issue a ruling yesterday. In the east bay a man involved in the theft of an amazon delivery truck near el sobrante has been arrested. The truck was stolen last thursday. A man jumped in the truck and drove it to a home where chp says Steve Ackelbein helped unload 71 packages on the truck. Chp says the man they believe stole the truck, 48yearold Charles Farmer is still at large. Only one of the 71 packages has been recovered. In the north bay, Santa Rosa Police are offering a 2500 reward for information on this man. Surveillance footage shows him robbing people inside a shell gas station. It happened around 1 30 sunday morning. The robber took money and other items before running north on corby avenue. Iran says no drone of theirs has been destroyed by a u. S. Warship. President trump said yesterday u. S. S. Boxer took defensive action after an iranian drone came within 1,000 yards of the ship. Irans Deputy Foreign minister tweeted today that iran has not lost any drones. The incident marks a new escalation of tension between the countries less than a month after iran shot down an american drone. President trump has nominated gene scalia to become the next labor secretary. He is the son of late justice antonin scalia. A white house aide says the nominee came in for an interview yesterday. Former labor secretary alex acosta resigned last week over his handling of a plea deal of Jeffrey Epstein who is in jail accused of sex trafficking. There will be a protest at uc berkeley over the placement of a telescope . Hawaii. The university is one of the main funders of the large telescope. They want to place the telescope on hawaiis highest peak. Locals say its sacred. One San Francisco woman is flying to hawaii to join her family for a protest thats also taking place there. Our elders are leading us to this front line, we need to follow them and we have to go. 33 hawaiian elders were arrested wednesday during protests. Besides todays protestsality uc berkeley theres also a protest at stanford tomorrow. A truck driver arrested after a deadly Kim Kardashian in San Francisco. The hitandrun investigation at three different scenes. Also ahead this morning, millennials on the move. San francisco is a popular choice but its not the top city drawing the most young adults. The sun is up and its a colorful sunrise and one with a lot of texture thanks to the cloud cover. Lets take a look at whats going to happen today. Oakland a little above average at 73. San francisco pot on at 66. The rest of us, honey, this gis ridiculously fast. We are seriously keeping up with the joneses. Keeping up with the fords. Keeping up with the garcias. The romeros. Patels. The wahhthewahh wolanskes. Right. No one is going to have internet like this. Xfinity makes keeping up with the joneses simple. Easy. Awesome. Want gigspeed internet . Weve got you covered. Or check out our other amazing speed options. Get started now for as low as 29. 99 a month for 12 months. Click, call or visit a store today. Its 6 09. I thought wed start with inland neighborhood temperatures. In the low 60s about everywhere, Pleasant Hill and livermore in the upper 50s. 64 in oakland, thearnl spot. 59 in san jose and also san carlos, novato. You can see mist and drizzle on the snn cruz camera. Our best chance is along the coast. In the afternoon, temperatures still in the low to mid 60s. If youre out and about, mild this morning, warm this afternoon. Light breezes on the bay, at least compared to the last couple days. Enjoy the tranquility. 57 in the north bay through 7 00. Hanging out in the mid 70s this afternoon with total sunshine. 66 by 7 00. East bay, in the 60s through 9 00. Faster sunshine, helps us reach the upper 70s by this afternoon. Locked into the 50s through 9 00. Well hang out in the mid 60s this afternoon. Take a look at the weekend forecast next. How about that commute. Alexis . Were still pretty light in most areas. In fact, our camera decided to freeze up because every time i put this one on the aur, thats what happens. San jose 101 and 880 doing okay. Inbound still nice and light through downtown. South of there we have a crash vofing a motorcycle. Everything is off on the right shoulder. Drive times looking good here, southbound 680 highway 4 to walnut creek in the green about six minutes. Westbound 24 walnut creek to highway 13. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin, thats not bad for that stretch. Still in the yellow at 36 minutes. A 65yearold truck driver is facing serious charges after a hitandrun that killed a 54yearold man in San Francisco yesterday. The victim who a pierce to haee been homeless was hit. The truck dragged him two blocks to fifth and market. The suspect, oaratsinbo mile an manslaughter and failure to yield to a pedestrian. This crash marks the 20th death on San Francisco streets this year. Coming up, a new listing for a unique air bnb. A bay area city lets yeah. You got yyeah . Omework . Hey, give me a kiss. Announcer whats the role of a car company . [ kisses ] announcer to take your kids to and from school . Dont forget your science project. Announcer we think it can be something bigger. Everybody take your seats. Announcer this summer, volkswagen is supporting americas teachers. Announcer visit your vw dealer to learn how you can join in. Announcer now during the volkswagen drive bigger event, get a 1,000 purchase bonus on 2019 jetta, tiguan, and select atlas models. Here at abc 7, were focused on building a better bay area. In the south bay people are bringing a bochy ball court back the weeds are out grown and the courts unused. The area used to be predominantly italian and portuguese neighborhood. So the bocce courts were put in to serve them. Reporter north side neighborhood president Association Says back in the 40s and 50s every day this space would be filled with people. A gradual lack of interest is how we ended up here. Its one of the few places in san jose where you can play bocce, but the courts fell into disrepair a few years ago. They havent been utilized in over five years. Thats a long time for such a kbutful park to go neglect ed. Reporter after spending hours on his own working to get the courts back in shape, he posted this. Jose posada has taken it upon himself to revitalize the courts, clear out the weeds. There were some gophers in also had its share of issues. Carmen with downtown enrichment says the park has had a reputation of rampant homelessness and drug use. There was also several Homeless People living alongside the bochy ball courts. The Community Effort to bring new life into the courts is one way they hope to build a better bay area. If neighbors dont rally together and look for resources and support each other, it doesnt happen. Reporter amanda del castillo, nbc 7 news. Home prices are going up in San Francisco. The median price of a house sold in the city last month 1. 7 million. Thats up nearly 9 from last year, this according to the California Association of realtors. Interestingly San Francisco is the only county in the bay area to see their prices go up. Prices are actually down everywhere else year over year. Keep up this graphic. We want to tell you about the new study that says San Francisco is not the top choice for millennials. Were up there, number four. A recent gallup poll says portland, oregon, comes in at number one. Just up the road from portland, seattle comes in number two. Denver i consider these to be sister cities. Portland, seattle, denver, and San Francisco as well. They have a lot of similarities. San jose combined with sunnyvale, they come in at number eight. Reggie, we clearly want to move on to this next story. I wasnt done talking about that, but thats fine. What you have to say does not matter. If you like hot dogs, maybe youll like this. You can relish a stay in the real Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile. Its about to go on air bnb. For one night only, you can have the opportunity to eat hot dogs, dream of hot dogs, live in this hot dog. It is 136 for two guests, one night. Theres a mini fridge stocked with oscar meyer hot dog treats. If you want to book a stay, you have to wait until next week. Reservations officially open on july 24th. Ill let you guys talk about this because i dont feel like this is a safe space for me to talk about what i want to say regarding that. You mean what you said earlier . Yeah. Youre right. You cant say that. Will you post it on social media. No. Not even there . No. I still like that paycheck. I like how they say, hey, idaho potato, were coming for you. Sure. What would it be the hot dog or the potato . Where would you stay . I want both. I want starch and i want i want that hot dog, cut that potato into fries. I want that 1. 50 hot dog from costco that comes with a drink. I like that. Then take it outside. Its going to be a great day. Reggie, youre so quiet, im stunned. So much restraint happening to my right. Im so impressed. Wow 61 at sfo where we have delays this morning. Lets talk about our accuweather highlights. Even at the coast, a little bit. Coolest highs moving forward. We have a warming trend going forward. In between that well have mostly cloudy and a little drizzle at night. The overall jet stream, you can see it dips down to just near us, allowing us to have cooler weather slip in. Well start the gradual warming trend. Mid to upper 70s in the sboi with morgan hill and gilroy around the low 80s. Not quite as warm in santa cruz, 67 degrees. 77 in redwood city, then we drop to 68 in millbrae. Quite a spread along the peninsula where it wont be as beezie as it has been. Mid to upper 60s in downtown, south San Francisco and sausalito. Quite a change, cloverdale, lakeport, ukiah, mid 60s to low 90s for you. 70 in richmond, 73 in oakland, 77 in fremont. As you move into the valleys, 80 to 86 degrees. You can keep that air conditioner off one more day. Look at tonight. Cloud cover, a little drizzle. A lot like the cloud cover this morning. Here we go. Its not going to be an abrupt change. Its going to be very gradual. A degree or two here or there. By the time we get to the 90s inland, low 60s, on our way to upper 90s. Mid 80s and mid 60s by thursday. Have a great weekend. Checking out the commute this morning. Want to take you into the oakland area where we have a sig alert but its not causing any delays, sort of an unusual one. Typically for a crash, but this is for disabled Construction Equipment that caltrans was using for work on westbound 580 around high street and 35th. Sounds like theyre not able to move that equipment. Theyre hoping to that have out of lanes by about 8 00 this morning. They issued the sig alert. One lane is blocked. So far were staying in the green in that area. Definitely helping that its friday morning. Check out the bay bridge toll plaza. So far no metering lights. That means we may make it the entire morning commute without them flipping those on. Enjoy it while it lasts. 48 b. A. R. T. Trains in service. All trains are on time. That is great news. Gge z new york no delays for city with a look at whats ahead on good morning mayor. So nice to be with you on friday morning. You know some of you are if only cool ones across the nation. Anywhere east of the rockies weave got the heat advisories, excessive heat warnings. If you havent seen these numbers, i think even you will be impressed. Some of the numbers like des moines, 116 it feels like this afternoon. The core of the heat slides to the east, though. If youre coming to the east coast at all this weekend, get ready to just be sweltering. Were talking about feelslike in the 105 to 115 range. The hospitals are preparing, folks are preparing. Well tell you what everyone is doing, even in new england where some folks dont have air conditioning. Before you see this video, we do love gio benitez. Well show you how dangerous this heat can get especially in the car. Hes going inside with the windows closed, no ac. Closely monitored by a paramedic the whole time. Well see what happens so all of us can understand how critical it is to make sure that children, pets are outside of that car. We have some new technology, too, by the way, to help keep your family safe. Plus weve got a new report about duchess meghan said to be struggling with the intensity of a spotlight. Her role as a royal and a new mother. Its friday, get ready to rock. Blink 182 performing in the park. Its all coming up right here on gma. We are here with you ginger. We think its so cool. A major milestone at star wars galaxy edge weeks after it opened. Apple music hosting its summer Concert Series in seven cities around the world. One is in san but me and crunchy here make a great team. We even finish each others. Babybel to crunchy youre supposed to say sentences. Crunchy sentences. Babybel well not now. Delicious new babybel cheese and crackers. Babybel saved it a nail biter and it took 16 innings. Giants take on the mets once again at oracle. 61 at 7 15, dropping down to 57 degrees. Have fun. Thanks so much, mike. It is your voice, your vote. Were learning new details about the next democratic debate. Senator Kamala Harris and joe biden will have another chance to face off later this month. During the last debate harris called out biden for supporting lawmakers who did not support busing children to help integrate schools. 20 candidates will participate in the debate. Yesterday they announced which will appear on the 30th and 31st. Abc news will host the third democratic debate in september. Happening tonight, apple music is bringing its Concert Series to San Francisco. This summer apple says its celebrating seven new artists on the brink of massive success, hosting seven shows across seven cities around the world. The monthly Concert Series is called up next live. Tonight soulful singer and songwriter omar apollo will perform at the opinional store in union square. A Bay Area Police department is investigating another possible Mountain Lion sighting. A standoff in the its no ordinary day for our family at dennys. Its crepe day. A Family Tradition we started about 22 minutes ago and now we can continue that tradition at home with dennys delivery. See you at dennys or dennys. Com now at 6 30, the man accused of killing a teen at an east bay taco bell is still on the run. The new Images Police just released in hopes of catching the suspect. The battle over a Navigation Center for the homeless in San Francisco, the setback opponents suffered in court. A major milestone at star wars galaxys edge just weeks after it opened. Why these visitors got a surprise. Mike, can you do chewbacca . On cue . No. When you go that deep, you have to you have a few minutes. Before 7 00 a. M. , if you stick around, hes going to do it. Are you writing checks i cant cash . We have faith. He wouldnt do it last time. We tried to talk him into it. Come on, mike. Depends on how great the anniversary thing is in the next segment. Let the spirit move you. Yes. Lets talk about weather. 6 30 on the dot. You can see the cloud cover out there. Its just about everywhere but the south bay and the east bay. The sea breeze is letting up just a little bit. We have a cooler air mass over top of us. Thats why temperatures are going to be below average today. We start off in the upper 50s to low 60s. Hang out in the low to mid 60s at the coast. 73 to 77 around the bay. Lunchtime temperatures, 78 to 82. Look at that evening. 70s. A great day to be outside. Alexis. Good morning, mike. Tracy area, countercommute, eastbound 205 around grant line road. We had a threecar crash. One of the vehicles caught fire. It sounds like theyre in the clearing stages. A 22minute delay down to 16, 17 minutes. I think these lanes are back open. Were in the clearing stages. One