7 advancer at 11 00 to get you in the know. Dan j. R. Stone is foll tugofwar ahead. J. R. it is incidents like this at a San Francisco pride parade where a selfdriving car stopped in the middle of an intersection and caused traffic backup that has fueled the opposition against these cars. They are not ready for prime time because of how they have impacted our operations. J. R. that is the San Francisco fire chief on monday who strongly opposes the expansion of selfdriving services. She says they have blocked fire engines, ambulances, and fire stations. Phil coke men s driving safety at Carnegie Mellon university bit he says the fire chief has a point. The big problem is these cars are not good with dealing with the unexpected. That is a fundamental limitation. J. R. one of the biggest backers of these vehicles is one of the most wellknown figures in San Francisco, former mayor willie brown, who is a cruise advisor. The Police Department and the Fire Department clearly know exactly how to access if they are in need of it, no matter what the traffic situation. J. R. at a meeting on waymo and cruise representatives talked about the safety of their passengers and upgrades they have made to their system. We are working to make sure our vehicles stay out of the way of active emergency vehicles when possible. J. R. those with the sf mta t us they are excited for what selfdriving means going forward, but do not support funny four hour access across the city. This professor echoes those thoughts. 20 years ago working on the last 2 , so the Companies Say it will be fixed right away, but we keep hearing that year after year. J. R. going forward, it is the cpuc that will make the final decision on expansion. The professor would like to see the cpuc to require a backup driver to drive in the sit in the passenger seat, so if there is a problem, they could get in the drivers seat and move the car out of the way. J. R. Stone, abc 7 news. Dan thanks very much. San jose police say the stabbing deaths of the woman and her grandson were isolated incidents and there is no ongoing threat to the general public. The woman and the young boy were found dead in their apartment complex on friday at the vista apartment complex at parkmoor avenue and menker avenue. Officers had no information to release about a specific suspect or motive at this time. Anytime our community in the city of san jose, we are a small city when it comes to one another, have to experience this kind of loss, it can be traumatic. Dan those deaths are san joses 23rd and 24th homicides this year. Ama covid19 cases are rising across the nation again. Rates of hospital admissions admissions are going up. Despite the increase hospitalizations remain at record lows, but doctors warned the uptick should make people cautious. Deaths have not increased. All current circulating subvariants are related to x bv, as opposed to omicron. A new variant now makes up an estimated 17 of new cases. Dan San Franciscos Federal Building was the last stop for two immigration marchers today. They walked over 90 miles ove three days bid earlier today, we saw some of the marchers come into San Francisco after making their way from petaluma across the Golden Gate Bridge. The other band of marchers came up the peninsula from san jose. They are calling on congress to pass the registry bill, which would allow 8 million undocumented people in the u. S. To apply for legal residency. Ama more than 4000 city workers of san jose have voted to strike next week. The strike will kick off next tuesday if no deal is reached before then. The unions include the airport workers, housing union, and library workers. The city is offering a 5 raise next year, then 4 and 3 the years after. Every dollar matters, but we also have to be honest about the math. Whatever we add up this point, the 5 raise requires a cut. Ama the mayor says those cuts could mean layoffs and cutting of services such as Library Hours and firefighter staffing. Our workers are moving to other cities that offer better wages and working conditions. Ama the city of san jose already has nearly 800 job vacancies. The San Jose City council will meet in closed session to discuss the wage issues tomorrow. More than 11,000 city workers in a los angeles are planning to walk off the job starting at midnight tonight. It will be for a 24 hours single day of action. It would affect the ports and airports in the l. A. Area. Los angeles is the largest container point in north america. Dan it is the earthshaking change in the College Sports world, a mass migration of collegiate sports programs breaking tradition and playing in other conferences. With the breakup of the pac12, there are rumors that cal and stanford could join the Atlantic Coast conference and have to travel across the country to play games. We have to break all of this down for you. It is just amazing. Have the perfect person for the job, part of tonight has bus abc 7 deep dive at 11 00. Sports director larry beil explains what is next good larry the big tane ten has unveiled the new map of the mega conference, starting with the teams they swiped from the pac12. Lets show you what this look like with the west coast teams, and if you extend it to colorado and utah, you have that. The big ten as previously existed with these teams, it makes sense for them right here. You got all the way to the east coast, so you are right here, rutgers and maryland. This is not over with consonants conference realignment. The next shoe to drop, the Atlantic Coast conference. Florida state wants out. Who knows what will happen when you have these teams down here . And that could break apart. So what do we have . That is what this is. It is completely dumb. It is ridiculous. Among the frustrated people, cal head football coach Justin Wilcox who is wondering, what are we doing . I grew up around a pac12 conference and fortunate to be coaching in it for a long time. It is really sad. Larry nobody wanted to see the way this has gone down on the west coast. No west coast teams really wanted this, and other coaches around the country are displeased. Lets hear from. The head coach of missouri. We are talking a football decision based on football, but what about softball and football who have to baseball who have to travel across the country . Do we know the number one cause of Mental Illness is . It is lack of rest and sleep. Larry what should the pac12 leaders, whoever is next, do next . Get some calculators out, because here is how you make your case to get into the big 10 and join your former buddies. You total up all of the travel costs. This has to add up to tens of millions of dollars per year. So cal and stanford could use that as financial incentive to push their way into the big ten, convince themselves that they should want two of the great academic institutions in the country. In louisville that, congress. What congress should be doing is calling in the tv executives, the conference commissioners, the School President s, and the 80. Lets get testimony, open hearings televised to all, and we will find out who orchestrated all this and how it should have been avoided and figure out what to do next. Right now it is just a mess, and i hope we see those hearings, because i guarantee one thing. All the folks involved with putting this together, the last thing they want to do is come out in public and explain themselves. We will see where this goes. Dan larry has much more on this and you can watch his full take on the College Sports shakeup by jumping in on our abc 7 bay area youtube page. Ama part of our work in building a better bay area involves capturing the progress of communities toward completion. We have had sign of that in San Franciscos chinatown. We told you about the red lanterns being in desperate need of repair, but as tim johns shows, chinatown has a bit of its vibrancy back. Tim dangling above the of San Franciscos chinatown is a site both old and new. They are iconic. It is part of us. It is part of chinatown. Tim for the past 10 years, these lanterns have welcomed locals and visitors along grand avenue until earlier this year when the heavy rains and atmospheric rivers of the winter destroyed them. They were tattered or torn. It was horrible. And you would see missing lanterns because they got blown off. Tim after months of fundraising, 180 new lanterns have gone up, a welcome sight for tourists when we take a picture of this area, we take a picture of this. Tim and local store owners who say the extra foot traffic the lanterns bring means extra business. There are lots of people walking the streets, taking pictures with their families. Tim the lanterns are also a way to help keep you safe. That includes eva lee, the cochair of the chinatown merchants association. Since the pandemi community has been hit by antiasian hate crimes. This would allow people to walk the streets after sunset. It has been hard progress during my lifetime, just beyond the devastation of the pandemic and chinatown being like a ghost town. Tim there will be a ribboncutting ceremony for the lanterns on tuesday, and for lee, she hopes that this is a beacon of hope and resilience for the neighborhood she loves and the entire city. We saw these lanterns in shreds and tatters, but this is to show you we can come back. Tim in San Francisco, tim johns, abc 7 news. Dan an allout brawl at the waterfront. What set off this now viral fight at the docks and punishment on the way. Ama plus those brandnew shoes, the fresh, mechanical pencils. Back to school is here, and there is a key reason why this time is different for oakland. Dan and how a san jose woman is turning a batch of sinus infections into critical advice. Sandhya i am meteorologist sandhya patel. Get ready for a dou featuring fresh Artisan Bread piled high with tender roast beef, smothered with melty provolone cheese, just enough Chipotle Mayo and served with hot au jus for dipping. Try the roast beef or pastrami french dips today. Only at togos. Dan new developments on the Alabama River brawl. The altercation happened on saturday at Riverfront Park in montgomery, alabama. Video shows the dock worker trying to move about that was parked where a river boat carrying hundreds of passengers was trying to pull in. That is when another man approach to the worker and another shirtless man ran in to attack him. The whole thing turned into a wild brawl. Probably 60 people fighting. A massive amount of people fighting. I do not even know who was fighting who at that point. Like i said come on both sides, the guys from the boat and the people from my ship. Dan the citys mayor responded to the viral footage, in response to a dockworker saying justice will be served. Ama more than 50 million americans are under Severe Weather alerts across the south and eastern united states. The main threats are tornadoes and instructive wins. More than one Million People are without power. Federal employees were sent home early when lightning struck near the nations capital. The system moved across the country from the midwest. You could see the house and the sheds destroyed. We are just lucky we were not home. Ama more than 15,000 flights have been delayed across the country since sunday. Forecasters expect the storms will still be damaging after midnight and dwindle through tomorrow morning. The extreme weather is being fueled by heat across the country. Dan part of our work in building a better bay area focuses on success through education. Ama and today was the first day of schools in oakland. East oakland schools got a new Community Garden and a play structure, and this was the first true opening day with no imposed covid restrictions. Even last year when we opened, do we let parents back on campus . We had to invite them in and let them leave right away. This time, we let them mingle in the campus theater the way we used to do it. Ama the school year did start early for the 34,000 students across the schools. The district aligned with the College Schedule to accommodate the High School Students who do dual enrollment at the local community college. Dan esan has a martial arts instructor has gone viral on tiktok after sharing a major health scare. Several sinus infections led to a surgery where doctors had to remove half of her skull. Reporter Lauren Martinez says how she is expiring inspiring others to fight on. When i get to the studio, i forget about pain and about the past. Lauren san jose motional arts instructor Marcia Santana says it is about the spiritual side. 26yearolds as it is what helps her recover after undergoing three brain surgeries. This is a story of how i lost half of my school. Lauren santana shared this tiktok video now viewed one point 6 million times. She explains how antibiotics to help fight sinus infections in 2021 did not work. They were getting caught up here and underneath my eyebrows, on top of my eyebrows, and spreading up into a huge mass that was about 12, 14 centimeters appear. Lauren in december 2020 one, santana had a craniotomy. Doctors removed 14 centimeters of her skull due to swelling. With her active lifestyle halted, santana wanted to use the free time to spare spread awareness about the importance of health. Just because you are young does not mean you cannot get sick. Not to be negative but you have got to be taking care of yourself. Lauren in april 2022, went through an operation where her skull was replaced. It was before that surgery where santana found out she was pregnant. A year later with a baby boy, santana is back on the map. She teaches and trains with her husband at west coast martial arts. The karate master her self himself said that santana has a warriors were spirit. I think about her all the time, so she has been my heart and soul to keep fighting on. Lauren santana is now training for her fifth degree black belt. In san jose, Lauren Martinez, abc 7 news. Dan she is an inspiration. Good for her. Time now to get a check on the weather and the heat. Ama abc 7 news meteorologist sandhya patel has the latest. Sandhya an amazing story about that woman. Lets talk about the big changes that will get underway as early as tomorrow. A live view showing from our emeryville camera. We have 2000 foot marine layer that has deepened rapidly, and that will cause a drop in temperatures. 94 today in santa rosa, down 16 degrees tomorrow coming in at 78 degrees bid expecting san jose to go from 93 to 80, and a 30 degree job drop in oakland. It will start to feel like backtoschool. And wednesday is backtoschool for palo alto to find school district. It is 60 degrees at 8 00 a. M. When the kids are heading to school, they might need the extra layer. 3 00, we are looking at 74 mountain view, Los Altos School district back to school on wednesday, so we are talking 60 degrees. At 3 00 p. M. , the sun will be 74 degrees as the kids get out of school. What is bringing us the cooler weather . Highpressure that brought us heat today is moving on, and we will be under this area of low pressure, so expect the temperatures to drop rapidly tomorrow afternoon compared to today. We do have the fog regrouping, already crossing the bay. Visibility right now down to three quarters of a mile on half moon bay. Temperatures are running lower compared to yesterday. 12 degrees right now is santa rosa, down nine in concord and livermore. The numbers in 50s and 60s for most of you unless you are well inland Still Holding onto the 70s. It is a foggy Golden Gate Bridge overnight. Breezy and much cooler weather tomorrow, and the summer heat returns this weekend, just in case you miss it. Tomorrow morning, watch out for the fog and drizzle. A slower burn back, and it does not quite clear on the coast at all, so you will remain cool. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s out the door tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon, it is a sunny one inland. Breezy conditions with the lingering clouds and temperatures in the 60s for the coast. What was once a Tropical Storm is now posttropical. Even though it has fallen apart, left over moisture moving into Southern California the middle of this week, the possibility that mid and highlevel cloudiness moves in our direction and increases the humidity. There is a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. The accuweather 7day forecast, much cooler for your tuesday. It is a good thing from a fire weather perspective. Warming up briefly, but temperatures will remain below average for the weekend when you bring the heat back. Monday, we will h back in the day, sneaker drops meant getting online to wait in line. Now with Xfinity Mobile. We get the Fastest Mobile Service and can get the freshest kicks asap. I got this. Get the best price for 2 lines of unlimited when you switch to Xfinity Mobile for 30 a line per month. Nice job, little sis they grow up so fast. Im a fan. From xfinity. Dan happening tomorrow, it is National Pickle ball day. It has become the latest recreational sport around the counter he country. Ama sports club think sf is teaming up with logan parks to hold an event. There will be an opportunity for people to test their skills on the court, all for free. Goebels San Franciscos Fastest Growing spor