Announcer building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. City workers preparing to strike. Now, city leaders are meeting to discuss wage issues to stop the disruptive work stoppage from happening. Reggie and crucial vote for the use of robotaxis. There use getting mixed reaction. Kumasi in the calendar says august, but for some of you, it is already Pumpkin Spice season. Starbucks, you see it here, is rolling out the fan favorite for you all, but is it too early . Reggie yes. Drew remember yesterday . We said summer is over, but it is not. Kumasi we should have said summer break. We have until at least septemberish, the end of september. Drew around here, it is until october. Reggie reggie i dont want to taste anything pumpkin. I dont want to see pumpkin. Jobina not even during the actual season. Sweet potato or bust over here. No thank you, kindly. [laughter] reggie thats true. Drew so no psl . All right. It is cooler compared to yesterday, getting rid of the warmth we had over the weekend and it feels a lot cooler this afternoon. Mid50s to lower 60s this morning and there is a look at pier 39, saying hello to the sea lions this morning as they wake up. Our marine layer has returned, and later today we will find increasing sunshine and increasing wind. A breezy afternoon will keep temperatures average to below average later on today. You will see those numbers only in the 70s and 80s. For comparison, yesterday, we had a lot of spots in the 90s. You will feel cooler air returning later on today. Lets get a check of traffic with jobina. Jobina metering lights came on at 5 32 and not much of a backup at all at the bay bridge toll plaza. No fog advisory issued for the golden gate bridge, but we have over the fog rest a bit of fog resting over the area at the moment. We also have a stall on the san mateo bridge as you make your way into the city, the drivetime is around 25 minutes. Not officially slow yet. It will be dry across the bridge after you make it through the metering lights. Reggie san jose leaders will meet today to discuss wage issues brought up by city workers who are preparing to strike unless a deal can be made. More than 4000 City Employees are prepared to walk off the job a week from today. Amanda del castillo is live in san jose. Amanda . Amanda a call to action by the south bay Labor Council, asking colleagues to voice their support for thousands of city workers who voted overwhelmingly to authorize that strike. The Labor Council is directing people to come out for Public Comment during todays scheduled council meeting. The group posting this to social media after 10 00 last night, saying they need all hands on deck to pack the chambers, saying this is the last chance to avert a strike. They are inviting people to share their experiences when it comes to san joses vacancy crises and how it has impacted their work and services for residents. The city of san jose has nearly 800 job vacancies, a 12 percent vacancy rate. Three days of striking will kick off if no deal is reached before then. The deals involved include airport workers, city librarians, and others. 4500 city workers in all. They want better wages and better working conditions. They are leaving for neighboring cities that are willing to offer better wages and better working conditions. Every matters, but everything we had over 5 this year requires a cut. Amanda the mayor s is prepared to use existing staff and contractors to fill any gaps open during the threeday strike. Where those gaps are specifically, they are still to be determined with the labor board and at the state level. Council members are expected to meet in closed session to discuss those wages. Let me toss back to you guys. We are live in san jose this morning. Kumasi and city workers in los angeles are holding a oneday walk out today, saying city leaders have negotiated in bad faith. Jobina is at the live desk with this when he for our action. 24 hour action. Jobina workers are demanding better pay and benefits, marking the first strike action in more than ready years 40 years in l. A. Traffic officers and engineers in may voted to authorize an unfair labor practices strike if negotiations stalled. The employees are just fed up and tired of the disrespect. They negotiated in bad faith, meaning they brought folks to the table who did not even have the authority to settle certain agreements. Jobina the strike is the latest to impact l. A. 11,000 writers are on strike with over 15,000 actors and hotel workers. The mayor are vital to angelenos everywhere. The strike comes at a time when l. A. Has hundreds of vacancies and Union Members have had to carry the weight of all of that. Reggie . Reggie a critical vote this week could set off a new wave of robotaxi fleets. This Driverless Cars in San Francisco. We have seen these cars stopped in intersections and cause backups, leading to strong opposition. Janine nicholson voiced her opposition to the expansion of selfdriving services, saying the cars have blocked fire engines, ambulances, and fire stations. A Carnegie Mellon professor who specializes in selfdriving car safety says the fire chief makes points. The big problem here, these cars are not good at dealing with the unexpected. Thats a fundamental limitation to the technology. Reggie one of the big supporters of the expansion is former mayor willie brown, who says he is tired of the Emergency Response argument. The Police Department and the Fire Department clearly know exactly how to access you or i if we are in need of them, no matter what the traffic situation is. They have to live with that. Reggie as for the sfmta, they are excited about automated driving, but do not support 24 hour Service Expansion across the city. Changes are coming to the antioch marina after a car went careening into the water during a sideshow. The car got pulled from the water early sunday morning, then another driver lost control, crashing in the fire parking lot and shearing off a fire hydrant. The marina will be locked from 9 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. And barricade will be placed between the parking spots. Kumasi time to break out your best lucky superstitions again, because the Mega Millions jackpot drawing is now up to 1. 55 billion, the largest and Mega Millions history. No one has gotten a correct ticket since april 18, 31 straight drawings. The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 302 million. Coming up, the Oakland Airport could change its name. The reason behind the possible rebranding. Reggie and a car goes through the second story of a house. Police say it may have been intentional. Drew an fog has returned this morning at 6 09, dense along parts of the coast and the north bay. Here is the golden gate bridge, a foggy start for some today and a cooler afternoon every business deserves a great deal. Thats why comcast business is launching the mobile made free event. With our business internet, new and existing customers can get one year of unlimited mobile for free. Its our best internet. Powered by the next generation 10g network and with 99. 9 reliability. Plus one line of free mobile for an entire year. Its the mobile made free eventhappening now. Get started for just 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get one free line of unlimited mobile. Comcast business, powering possibilities. Kumasi the time is 6 11, and you have to see these unbelievable images of how a car plowed into the second floor of the home in pennsylvania. First responders got there to find out that the driver was already out of the vehicle, they went to the hospital and are currently recovering. As for damage to the house, Officials Say they do not know what the extent is. Police say the crash was not an accident, but did not elaborate. Reggie wow, that is incredible. Drew looking at the 24 hour temperature change it is cooler today compared to yesterday. Here is future weather, going hourbyhour and showing you how to cover will remain along the coast. The marine layer is back today and we find increasing wind as the afternoon goes on, slowing the warming process. Later today, our warmest spots in the upper 70s to low 80s, compared to widespread 90 degree readings in the daytime high. Today is cooler out there napa only 70 degrees today in the middle of august . Cool in the north a, 69 in oakland, 64 in the city, compared to what we hit yesterday. Minor ebbs and flows in our temperatures, but a steady forecast the next couple of days. However, we turn warmer over the weekend and will have those details, coming up in about nine minute. Kumasi up next, the airline set to cut back on its flights out of sfo. 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Farxiga reggie 6 15, and we will bring you ginger zee, live in arizona with a look at what is coming up on gma. Kumasi good morning, ginger. Ginger we did not drop from the mid90s overnight and they will go for another warm day, but it is not just about the heat, but the heat that keeps accumulating season to season. Arizona State University is using a mannequin robot that can help them simulate different demographics of people and study from study heat when it goes from uncomfortable to deadly. We also have a lot to do with the storms. So many cancellations on the east coast, millions without power, but the damaging winds maryland has damaging winds, an faith abubey has the latest pictures there. Also, passed away after a private health battle, more on that situation, and the fedex driver reunited with the man he pulled from a burning car. We also have deals and steals on the road and pickleball day. You can see the rain picking up. Kumasi but you are all good though. Reggie its happening. Ginger it is. Reggie well we will let you go. Ginger, we will see you at 7 00 and thank you so much for that. Kumasi police in santa rosa have a plan to stop sideshows by suing organizers for pollution. Police chief john cregan says the City Attorney is going after 13 sideshow promoters in it will court. They are seeking fines of 25,000 from each defendant. The city is also impounding cars used in sideshows and have installed traffic delineators around where the sideshows have been happening. One thing we want to make very clear, we will not tolerate this dangerous and illegal behavior on the streets of santa rosa. Kumasi Police Believe enforcement is working, they have already seen an increase diminishing sideshow r this project generated controversy because some groups said it would negatively affect air quality and traffic. An Environmental Review found minimal impact to the neighborhood. New developments, grading agency fitch has downgraded westfield San Francisco centers mortgage, which means fitch is not confident investors will get their money back when the mall cells. It currently has 550 8 million in outstanding mortgage debt and occupancy is at 46 . Earlier, westfield announced would turn the property over to its lender do to diminishing sales and low foot traffic. Reggie a live look at sfo this morning. Alaska airlines has confirmed it is preferring to cut service from sfo by early next year. They would not go into specifics, but dozens of flights at sfo are reported to be impacted. Cuts are happening nationwide, but alaska is adding more warm weather destinations as well. Oakland International Airport is considering changing its name. This is part of a rebranding effort to attract more travel better destinations. The key survey asked the question, how comfortable would you be with the airport changing its name to reflect its service area . The word oakland would not be taken out of the new name and the airports code remains the same, oak. Kumasi it is supposed to say summer is over, but i dont believe that. Reggie and it is not true. Kumasi its not true. Summer is still in full effect, but some people are already mentally in fall, because Pumpkin Spice is already back. But is it too early . 7eleven is leading the way by rolling out its Pumpkin Spice latte before everybody else. The latte runs from now until october 31. The website says we are taking a lead and manifesting cooler days, sorry about it. And two new fall doughnuts at krispy kreme, Pumpkin Spice cheesecake swirl and a maple pecan doughnut can try right now. Drew veria tell very autumnal. Reggie but i am still in the coke and slurpee arer as taylor swift era, swift might write. Kumasi but who is inching towards fall . Drew everybody. All the ads im getting right now. Kumasi but across the country . Drew nobody. Its hot. Reggie it did not drip out of the 90s in arizona overnight. Someone here is obsessed with summer and the call is coming from inside the house. Drew as the climate warms, how will the schedule be affected . Do we say whatever, 95 degrees . You want pumpkin, take it. Reggie Pumpkin Spice latte isnt good. Kumasi oh. Drew i wouldnt go that far. Jobina all im going to say is, sweet potato. Reggie i will try that. Jobina and you know red bay coffee has the candy dm latte candied yam latte. Reggie so natural. But nothing that came from the earth. Jobina how do i Say Something positive . Kumasi i dont want to say anything negative about pumpkin. So i am not going to talk about it. Reggie you could just say its an alternative. Drew i like it. I stan it and will get it. Reggie you like chemicals . Drew like that is what i am really worried about. Reggie you guys have the exact same outfit. Drew we are twinning this morning. Look at this. Its like america all we need is read. Red. Oh man, we really have the same brain sometimes. It is breezy in spots, we expect the wind to pick up even more as the rain goes on. They will dust over 30 Miles Per Hour, but the temperatures are only in the 60s to 70s for the most part. You will feel the cool down us today. Overnight tonight, overcast with coastal drizzle and temperatures in the 50s and low 60s. Here is your accuweather forecast, a steady pattern of average temperatures through the end of the week and then we have a warm up coming our way this weekend, hot inland sunday and monday, triple digits will return. I will send it over to my twin this morning. Jobina we dont have any injuries involved, but there is a sig alert on the san mateo bridge, traveling in the westbound direction on the incline. This is the eastern side of the bridge we are looking at, but bringing in the drive times on the westbound side, it will take you an hour and one minute to get across the san mateo bridge in one direction. Typically it is around 28 minutes. Tracking the speeds for you, five Miles Per Hour right now. We do not have an estimated time is to win all lanes will reopen. We have two lanes blocked right now, our biggest issue, but this is a live look at oakland, showing california sky todos alcanzamos Las Estrellas sunny state of mind flexin all the time todo es dorado y nos gusta picante cause this place is caliente tamos enchilado feels so golden livin in the golden state with you feels so golden vive en el Estado Dorado oooh we got that drip, drip, drip come take a sip, sip, sip feels so golden vive en el Estado Dorado reggie a san jose martial arts instructor is going viral on tiktok after sharing a major health scare. This is the story of how i lost half of my skull. [laughter] reggie she is laughing, but this is incredibly serious. She explained how anabiotics that were supposed to help her fight six sinus infections did not work. That led to surgery, where doctors had to remove half of her skull because of brain swelling. It was getting caught up here, swelling on top of my eyebrows and swelling to a big huge mass that was about 12, 14 centimeters appear that they had to remove. Reggie in april, she underwent a cranial plasty where her skull was replaced. She is now back on the map and teaches and trains with her husband at west coast martial arts. Look at that. She is training for her fifth degree black belt, and that is your inspiration for the morning. Next at 6 30, jeopardy producers say the show can expect some changes when it returns for its 40th season. And stanford and cal hoping to find a new home for rsv can be a dangerous virus. [sneeze]. For those 60 and older. Its not just a cold. And if youre 60 or older. You may be at increased risk of hospitalization. [coughing]. From this highly. Contagious virus. Not all dangers come with warning labels. Talk to your pharmacist or doctor. About getting vaccinated against rsv today. Announcer building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. Of Americans Still under Severe Weather alerts, from heat to tornadoes to destructive wind. Thousands of Flights Canceled due to weather. Here in the bay area, we are still cool, drew has our forecast. Kumasi and how devastating the drought has been for farmers along the peninsula. Reggie and it is National Pickleball day. How you can learn t