Crazy bolt of lightning followed by a crazy thunder jolt that sounded like a bomb. One person is dead and more than a dozen are injured after a rare Lightning Storm in southern california. Nine people were hospitalized and one is in Critical Condition tonight. Good evening. Im ama dates. 13 people including a 15yearold boy were treated at venice beach and a 57yearold man was hit by lightning on nearby catalina island. A 20yearold man was killed. Th all happened during a powerful thunderstorm. This is video from the scene right after a bolt of lightning hit the beach which was under a Clear Blue Sky minutes earlier. Abc News Reporter with the latest. A beautiful summer afternoon turned into tragedy at the world famous venice beach in los angeles. A rare summer storm moved in quickly striking the beach with lightning. It sounded like a sonic boom. It literally shook the building. We started to hear storm activity and i said, you know, this is not a good place to be. We should go inside. I dont feel like getting killed today. Moments later all hell broke loose. The bolt of lightning sent huge crowds running for cover. All of a sudden it was a big flash of light and a boom and it felt like someone punched me in the back of my head right here. It went down the whole side of my body and my calf locked up and i fell over. Some were stuck falling over lying face down on the sand. Lifeguards ran to help the victims performing cpr. They had another scuba diver over here and they resuscitated him. They rushed the stricken beachgoers to hospitals. They combed the beach looking for reports of possible missing swimmers. Just off the coast three lightning strikes jolted catalina island. Abc news, lange los angeles. Abc7 news meteorologist francis has the details. We are seeing the warm, moist air coming from the south. Right now it still could be causing rain off the coast of los angeles. Also what it is doing is during the afternoon hours it is creating instability in the atmosphere and thats what is creating the line of thunderstorms we saw this afternoon at about 1 00 and between 1 00 and 3 00 is when we saw the most Severe Weather move along the coast when they had those thunderstorms. Now we saw thunderstorms off the coast of monterey between 1 00 and 3 00 this afternoon. We had at least 47 lightning strikes. Right now we are seeing most of the high clouds move through the bay area, but the threat of thunderstorms continues as well as an isolated shower. I will let you know with the accuweather sevenday forecast. Ama . Francis, thank you. Lightning may have sparked one of two raging manufactures in northern california. 26,000 acres has burned. Hundreds of firefighters are spread thin and some are fighting the fire near Yosemite National park. Others are in the sierra foothills. Lilian kim is live in the newsroom with the latest on both fires. Lilian . Of the two fierce, the one is yosemite is growing faster having quadrupled to three square miles. The good news is none of the parks treasures are threatened. The breathtaking views of Yosemite National park are obscured by thick smoke. At least 600 firefighters are battling flames during the driest year on record in yosemite. Pair that with steep, rocky per rain and terrain and over 100degree temperatures firefighters are looking at an uphill battle. Our biggest concern is the protection of people and structures and thats what we are focusing on right now. We will assess the burned area when it is over. Firefighters are saying it started Late Afternoon on friday. At this point, the firefighter investigators dont know what started it. They had less than an hour to leave and so far one home has been destroyed. Our focus is purely on initial attack and we are 100 committed to suppressing this fire as quickly as possible. Farther north outside sacramento the sand fire in the sierra foothills is burning near the wine growing regions in amador and el dorado counties. So far the flames have destroyed 13 homes. About 500 homes have been evacuated. The car and truck were loaded. I took one of the dogs and he took two of the dogs and off we went. Investigators say flames broke out on free day when a vehicle drove over dry terrain. At this point there is no word on when firefighters expect to have the sand fire contained. Lilian kim, abc7 news. A popular east bay salon has been destroyed by fire. Flames broke out in san leandro around 9 15. Firefighters were able to knock the fire down in about 20 minutes. One firefighter was injured. He is expected to be okay. Investigators say an electrical malfunction in the hair salons facial room caused the fire. The nail spa next door had smoke and heat damage, but should reopen in a few days. Tomorrow hundreds are expected to attend a Memorial Service for the stockton mother who was killed while being held hostage by bank robbers. Miss tee was taken misty was taken hostage earlier this month. Two of the suspects were killed in a shootout with police and the third suspect survived by using her as a human shield. A 50,000 reward is being of on erred of on erred for a fourth person who dropped those three off at the bank. San brew bruno is going to expose information. They turned over thousands of emails regarding the deadly pipeline explosion in 2010. It is widely expected the records will show an on going cozy relationship between the cpuc and pg e. They will announce what they found at cpuc headquarters in San Francisco. Taxing sugary soda drinks took its first step forward in San Francisco. Supporters. Hit the streets to raise awareness and they are finding it is an uphill battle. Cornell bernard is live at city hall with this story. Last week supervisors voted to put the soda tax on the ballot and now comes the tough part, selling it to the voters. Todd davis is knocking on a lot of doors with his daughter, alana. He is one of many getting the word out about the soda tax urging voters to say yes in november. Hoping to get your support. Type 2 diabetes is a huge problem. Drinks would be slapped with a tax of 2 cents per ounce and so would every other sugary drink sold in the city. Money raised would be spent on healthy programs for kids in schools. The principal will vote yes. We have a problem. In my school i see a problem with what sugar is doing to the kids bodies and the pervasiveness of it. Supervisor scott wiener says it may reduce consumption by 31 . We are not banning anything. This will simply be a way to help people make healthier choices. But the opposition is fierce. The American Beverage Association could spend millions to defeat the tax. They put up this Facebook Page claiming more than a thousand local businesses already oppose it. I dont think the tax will help that though. Really . He doesnt want more Government Intervention in his life. In the nanny state we live in . Absolutely. It is not a bad idea, but as far as kids not drinking as much soda. Todd knows this will be an uphill battle, but he will keep knocking. In San Francisco, cornell bernard, abc7 news. The city of Berk Berkeley is debating its own soda tax. It will be held at the chambers Government Affairs meeting tomorrow at noon. Developing news tonight in the middle east crisis. The United Nations Security Council called foreman immediate and for an immediate and humanitarian ceasefire. It came at an emergency meeting and the call for a ceasefire follows new attacks launched by israel and hamas despite proposals for another temporary halt to nearly three weeks of fighting. Later this hour what both sides are saying tonight. Still to come on abc news at 11 00 we will taxi up there anyway we want to. I dont like your attitude. A rant between a pilot and air Traffic Controller. Wait until you hear what another pilot said. And an end of an era. The final game at Candlestick Park. And later, a concert out of control. Dozens arrested and nearly two dozen hospitalized. Well show you what happened when abc7 news at 11 00 continues. Airlines and now an exchange between an air Traffic Controller and a pilot. Here is Clayton Sandel with the audiotapes. Every day in the u. S. There are roughly 20,000 commercial Airline Flights watched over by thousands of aviation professionals. But every once in awhile someone wakes up on the wrong side of the runway. Because my god there is a plane out there that is like six miles away. This Terse Exchange was put out on friday. It captures the moment an f. A. A. Controller tells the pilot of delta flight 2242 is on the wrong taxi way called lima. The plane should be on one called mike. 2423 you are supposed to be on mike. Yes, sir. We are going out there right now. Looks like you joined lima. You know what, we will taxi up there anyway we want. I dont like your attitude. And he fires back. Good morning. There is no attitude. I was trying to correct you. It is my job to correct you if you make a mistake. I ask for certain reasons. I make a mistake every two to three minutes. Route on mike. You didnt tell us how to get there so next time do that. One of the many other pilots listening chimes in with this. Settle down captain happy. Tonight delta is looking into the exchange saying deltas values call for courtesey and professionalism in everything they do. Delta insists customer safety was never in jeopardy. A mothers surprising flea market find is bringing peace of mind to another mind. Laney brown found a tribute flag for a Fallen Marine at a texas flea mark a cet. Messages messages for him after he was killed in iraq was written by his unit. His mother didnt know it existed until she was tracked down and tonight the mothers met for the exchange. We feel so honored to find this flag and return it to you. I have peace in my heart. I am happy. This is all for my son. He was just 20 years old when he was killed in a Helicopter Crash in 2005. Tomorrow will mark 100 years since the start of world war i. On july 28th, 1914 they declared war on serbia. The war would soon spread throughout europe and across the globe. The u. S. Tried to remain neutral and declared war on germany. World war one would end a year after that a in november of 1918. Today Candlestick Park hosted its last sporting event. The earthquakes play athletica madrid. Many fans were happy for a chance to win their jerseys a final time. We have some vip tickets. It is all about the candlestick. The last hoorah. After that, thats it. Paul mccartney coming up after that and thats it. Earlier today the league executive and spanish businesses hosted an open house showing off culture and big companies. They hope the universal language of soccer will help Spanish Companies drum up business here. It is time to get a check on our weather and whats to come as we head into the week with francis. Hi, ama. Taking you back and showing numerous lightning strikes, at least 47 during this afternoon and off the coast of monterey. We can see clouds, but clear inland. We still see the threat of thunderstorms. We actually got trace amounts of rain. Moffett field, hayward and concord. We could see precipitation as well tomorrow. Winds are gusty in certain areas especially sfo at 25 miles an hour and fairfield, 31 miles an hour. So it has been breezy and that brought some temperatures down. Here is a look from the exploratorium camera over the low clouds at the top of the trans america tower. San carlos 64 and san jose sick 6 and gilroy 61 and upper 50s as well. Half moon bay. This time as we look from the east bay hills you can see some of the low clouds again. The camera is showing the conditions. 62 gnaw paw vow and 59 fairfield and 69 concord and livermore in the low 70s. Quite a range of of temperatures even at this hour. We are looking up at coit tower and here is what you need to know. A chance of thunderstorms continues. Isolated showers are possible. Slightly cooler inland tomorrow. A lot of areas the temperatures are holding steady. The air is circulating clockwise. That is pulling the monsoonal moisture and bring bringing us high clouds and air during the afternoon hours. We could leakily see conditions tomorrow bringing thunderstorms as well. So we will wake up to clouds off the coast and then we will see some midto high devil clouds during the afternoon with a sea breeze that will help bring some inland numbers down. Overnight lows are fairly mild as well. A little cooler in some locations. More 50s. 58 richmond and 56 San Francisco and in napa, 58 oakland and still mild in antioch. 66 degrees. Tomorrow the temperatures hold steady in san jose. 86 for you and 95 in gilroy and 82 in mill pea dis. Look for 80s on the lower part of the peninsula. Downtown San Francisco, 69. The mid80s through sonoma and napa. Upper 70s to low 80s. Numbers are coming down more comfortable. 99 was your high in livermore. Tomorrow should be 95. Unfortunately not too much change in temperatures all week long. We will still be in the 90s. The High Pressure will stick around into next weekend. Milder though at the bay. Reaching the high 70s for next weekend and of course still in the 60s. You have our baseball highlights. Some good. Some bad. Cant have it all, ama, cant have it all. The as and giants in battles with their so cal rivals. The giants turn to a former cy young winner to prevent a series sweep. This wasnt in the script. Sports is next. Hey pal . You ready . 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It takes awhile to get on the same page. Next batter and runners on second and third and strikes out Adrian Gonzalez and posey throws him out at first. Gordon sees an opening and safe and game tied at two. Peavy goes 6 and strikes out five and this is still in the fifth. Crawford down the right field line. Ramirez trying to score from first. Beats the tag. Buster gets one back in the bottom half. Make it 43. Strikes out the side in the 9th. Brandon crawford and a swing and a miss. Dodgers sweep and they are one and a half up in the west. Peavy lost a major league record. As and rangers and put that rally towel away. An e. R. A over eight in this game. Struggled to get it over the plate and struggled to throw it over second base. That opens the flood gates. They all knocked in runs. Oakland five runs in the frame. Plenty for scott casmere. He struck out a pair. Nice to see him back and hitting well. Three for five and an r. B. I single here and as take two of three from the rangers. Tonight as we mentioned the last time you will ever see an athletic event in san jose park. Score less game and they go to penalty kicks. Here is sal to end it. Still to come, why matt schaub likes what he sees through three days at raiders camp. And lets hope injuries arent in three at trai put frank gore in bubble wrap for me . Just until the regular season begi . Keep him safe. For the second time in three days the niners suffer an injury to one of their back up running backs. This is back up video from friday. But he was carted off the field after dislocating his left elbow after Kendal Hunter tore his acl two days ago. He suffered this injury to his right elbow against cal. On the raiders front matt schaub continues to im pros dennis alan through three days of training camp. Schaub is one of the big name veterans brought in during the off season. Combined they bring four super bowl rings and eight pro bowl appearances. There are a lot of championship rings. When you can put the right guys into the right system on the right team with young guys they have here, the young talents to help show them the way. Thats unbeatable and unstoppable. You are cooking with something good right there. Lets hope they are unbeatable a and unstoppable. In our second half hour the sonoma nationals where a son and daughter went manoymano. The damage from powerful storms moving across the country tonight. And a fatal landing. A father killed after being hit by a plane while walking with his daughter on a beach. And a deadly ebola on you break break out break spreads to two american doctors. The risk doctors are facing tonight. Stay with us. We will be back after a im ama dates. We have breaking news from the south bay. The San Jose Fire Department is fighting a fire on 6th and virginia streets. The Fire Department is evacuating all homes within a half mile radius of the propane yard. The fire is burning next to highway 280. The chp is shutting down the highway in that area as a precaution. The Fire Department says there are anywhere from 50 to 100 propane tanks in the yard. We will keep you updated throughout the newscast. Reporting continues on our twitter. One person is dead and more than a dozen injured after a rare Lightning Storm. It happened during a powerful thunderstorm that swept venice beach. It also struck a man on nearby catalina island. Firefighters are fighting two fastmoving wildfires. The sand fire has burned six square miles and destroyed 13 homes. Another fire forced the evacuation of 100 homes. Flames have burned 2100 acres. And a fire destroyed a popular salon. An electrical malfunction in san leandro caused the fire. A nail salon was damaged, but expected to reopen later next week. Rescue, woulders are searching doortodoor after severe storms sliced and were destroyed. Many raced for their basements. Afterwards neighbors helped each other clearing down trees and limbs. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported but the power is still out. They are still working to see if there was an actual tornado or just strong winds. One person was killed and seven injured after a small plane landed on the beach in florida. A man and his daughter were walking along the beach when it made an emergency landing. He was killed instandly when the plane hit them. His daughter is in Critical Condition and the mans wife hospitalized. A country concert out of control. 46 others were evaluated for medical issues at the scene and released. Officials say most of the people were treated for alcoholrelated issues. Approximately 18,000 people attended the concert. A frantic search formation oregon mother. 38yearold jennifer houston was last seen putting gas in her suv near dundee, oregon. She ran errands and never returned. They say jennifer would never leave her two young boys. Local Law Enforcement say there are no signs of foul play. Israel and hamas launched new attacks against each other. Abc News Reporter has the latest. Israeli guns roared back to life going on the offensive after the 24hour extension. They sent more rockets into israel. These pictures showed a rocket miss fire and smoke rising near a beach in the gaza strip and an explosion and then part of the projectile rolling down the street. Hamas later accepted a truce extension, but it did not hold. As the day went on, the mutual attacks resumed with each side blaming the other. Israel is not going to let a terrorist organization determine when they will fire on our people. They persist on bombing and shelling people. It gave the Israeli Soldiers a day of rest on the saab bath. In many cases nothing more than piles of rubble. They salvaged some belongings. This boy was reunited with his toy bear and they buried their dead. Gazans took the opportunity to stock up for the holiday that will shortly mark the end of ramadan. A holiday they now expect to spend in a war zone. Abc news, new york. Jay today International Inspectors canceled a flight to the ukraine because of fighting in the area. The Team Included Dutch Police Officers sent to help secure and investigate the place where mh17 crashed after a missal brought it down 10 days ago killing 298 people. Most from the netherlands. They say Government Troops are rying to clear out and secure the crash site. A deadly Ebola Outbreak is changing lives in america. This is the worst outbreak ever recorded. Almost 1100 are infected and 600 have died. Many in liberia. He lived with his family in minnesota until 2008. Sawyer died in nigeria, not long after arriving on a flight from liberia. And now two missionaries are fighting. They were working with the ebola virus patients and trying to stop its spread. They received treatment early. Doctors say that is key, but there is no word yet on their lonterm prognosis. Still to come, a courthouse confrontation. The iteam looks into the case of a fish vendor accused of having thousands of pounds of illegal shark fins. Im in the accuweather center. High clouds and thunderstorms in your forecast. The details coming up. News in san jose. 280 is closed because of a fire at an abandoned propane yard. They evacuated all homes within a half mile of the yard. The chp says it is a precaution because the fire is burning so close to the freeway. Right now it is a twoalarm fire. There are between 50 and 100 propane tanks and now we are learning that they are evacuating a 10block radius in that area. Keep it at abc7 news. Follow us on twitter at abc7 news bay area. Michael cuong appeared in a San Francisco courtroom. His case was the first under the new shark fin ban. Some activists who push for the law are not happy dan noise has the investigation dan noyes has the investigation. His family has been in the business since 1906 selling shark fins to restaurants for shark fin soup. What is the source of the shark fin . Can you tell me the source of the shark fin . He has pled not guilty and says they will challenge the ban. They found 2,138 slashing shark fins at the warehouse a full six months after the ban took affect. It is a low he knows very well. My name is michael cuong. I am the fourth generation to be involved in shark fellowship business. He was one of the most vocal opponents appearing at hearings in San Francisco. It is not just Cost Effective to catch sharks. When they catch the shark they will use it. And now he is the first major test of the new law. Charges with four misdemeanors for possession and sale of frozen and processed shark fin and raw shark tail and dried shark fin for display purposes. If you knew what the law is why have all of the shark fins . The fine is 1,000 and six months in jail. Not enough for some activists. We dont think this is right. We think this is grossly under done. The north cal coordinator is worried the punishment can be seen as a cost of doing business. Thousands died for him to have the shark fins in his warehouse. One charge per animal would be a more equitable situation. We are talking thousands of animals. Here is a guy who will get a slap on the wrist for having something illegal. I completely understand their concern. They suspend the charging disetion. You have to look at the legislative intent. The legislative intent is clear and it makes it a misdemeanor offense. There is no way to elevate it to a felony. It is working like we intended it to work. Assemblyman paul fong wrote the shark fin ban and said in addition to the possible penalties he lost his supply of shark fins worth a Million Dollars or more on the black market. I am satisfied with that. The whole intention was to bring awareness of the sharks plight. The need for sharks in our ecosystem. The latest search says at least 100 million sharks died each year for shark fin soup. Often crews lop off the fins and dump them back into the ocean to bleed to death or drowned. Several species of sharks are on the extinction. Sharks are vitally important. They are in every oition ocean in the world and keep the ocean healthy. If we lose them we could have problems with other species down the line. They are waging a campaign to cut the demand for shark fin soup using basketball star yao ming. If you could see how each year 70 million sharks are killed to end up in soup, could you still eat it . It is working. Now in china they say a 50 to 70 reduction in shark fin which is literally millions of sharks, tens of millions of sharks. The Chinese Government has provided spots on prime time tv to run his ads and they banned it from all official dinners. In the time it took you to watch this story another 660 sharks died. 275,000 a day. All for soup. For the i team, dan noyes, a a bc7 news. It is time to get one last check on our weather. Live doppler 7hd is showing us clouds off the coast right now, but clear inland. Look for flight delays if you are traveling to the northeast with Severe Weather heading toward boston and 82 in new york. Hot weather through texas and also arizona. The monsoonal moisture is bringing hazy, humid conditions and the threat of thunderstorms es in the higher elevation. Cloudy in los angeles at 86. In the bay area the temperatures will be coming down. 91 in concord and other places holding steady. 69 in San Francisco and 86 in san jose and 81 in fremont and 77 in oakland. If you are heading to the giants game tomorrow it will be mild. The temperatures in the mid60s and dropping to near 60 when the game ends. And here is a temperature trend for you. We will be just above average all week in San Francisco. The average is 66. We will be in the 70s through the rest of of the week. That means inland areas will be in the nineties all week as well. Thank you so much, francis. Colin is here for shu. We will go up to sonoma. Drag racing chip off the old block. How daughter took down dad at the sonoma nationals. That story in the sights and sounds. Thats all next. In san jose. Authorities are evacuating homes at 6th and southeast virginia. Firefighters believe they are starting to get a ham on. It 280 is closed at seventh street because this fire is not far from the freeway. It is just a few blocks south of san jose state. Firefighters believe there are 50 to 100 tanks at this propane yard, abandoned yard. There is still a twoalarm fire. Breaking News Coverage continues on twitter at abc7 news bay area. Now to colin and nhra. A little drag racing. At the sonoma nationals, a legend in the sport and he is a 16time funny car champion, and then after today his record is 56. The two squaring off in the funny car finals and then courtney leaves dad in the dust. She becoming the winningest driver. He was victorious in sonoma in 2006. It is a huge deal here especially this track. It is where i remember watching eric win here. It is definitely a special place in my heart. He eclipses the previous record held by ashley. Drag racing is a unique sport with a unique fan base. It is a threeday event and roughly 30,000 showed up each day. We spent here are the sights and sounds through his lens. Welcome to nhra. It is the excitement of the racing, the crowds. Going into a pit. Been doing this for years. Love drag racing. Nhra is great. The only thing i know is about the Forest Family and i like that they are a family unit. It is a great way to bring family together. Have to see these great racers. This is our annual thing and we do it every year. Average about 120 on a motorcycle. 300 miles an hour, i dont know. The fastest i ever driven was about 160 american muscles. The females because they brought a new crowd to the track. If you aint first, youre last, ricky bobbie. The mayor of indianapolis declared this jeff gordon day instead of wilting under that pressure gordon welcomed it. He found himself in perfect position with 22 lapse to go. Right on the tale of kasey kahne. That brings out a caution on the restart that that was an achilles heel. 17 laps to go and 20 years after his first brickyard win gordon gets his record fifth and then gives them the smooch. I dont think there is a better feeling. Thats what it took today. It is a total team effort. I am not good on restart and wasnt good today. Cooperstown welcomed tony la russa. He managed his way to three world series titles and two came with the cardinals. But his first is one we will all remember. 25 years ago when the as beat the giants in the bay bridge series. Today he joined a sixmember class and among them another frank thomas. Yankees manager joe torre and three atlanta braifts, bobbie box and greg maddux and tom glavine. For years i heard tony is prepared. Our team is prepared. Preparing is studying for the test. Our team took the test. We competed like fanatics. I mentioned thomas. The big hurt goes in as a white sox, but he had a memorable season for the as with 39 home runs and drove in 114 runs. Thomas overcome with emotion in his acceptance speech today. We are a long way from columbus, georgia. I know it wasnt easy, but i thank you for raising us all. Thanking mom and dad. When in doubt thanking mom and dad. Thank you, colin. And we have another update on our breaking news. Evacuations are underway in san jose due to a twoalarm fire at a propane tank. 280 had just reopened. It is closed for half an hour and firefighters will stay they are going to get control of this fire. There are 50 to 100 tanks at this yard. Coverage of our breaking news continues on twitter at abc7 news bay area and your next newscast is tomorrow morning at 4 30. Thank you for joining us. 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