Friedman is live near the fire lines with the latest update. Reporter we were getting low temperatures and we do have an inversion layer this morning and that was happening firefighters but the inversion layer has burned off, the wind has come up and as you see over my shoulder now we have more smoke and afternoon activity. That 3200 acres is about to change. 30 about to change. We dont know what those new numbers will be but they have been the same for quite a while. Its certainly better than yesterday. Lets begin with amy head of the california of cal fire. So it seems to be coming up again. Its not like yesterday, though, is it . No, not like yesterday. We did have a little cool weather come in last night that helped and it stayed a lot cooler than yesterday. But theres a little wind picking up. Reporter in a fire like this, wind and heat are the enemies. In an area with so many hot spots, the wind has a way of wreaking havoc, a gust, a burst, a flareup. After a quiet morning thats what we saw about 1 00 p. M. When the sun came out. Along bucks county road, this area flared and cal fire sent in the helicopters, one after another dropping buckets. It is dangerous pinpoint work. They can carry about 3,000 gallons of water in the bucket and they take it to a hot spot and dump it. Reporter will 3,000 gallons do it . It definitely slows things down until we can get Ground Resources in there. Reporter they have had more than that in the last hour. They have had planes coming in dumping some of that pink stuff from the air. Thats a lot more than 300 gallons. More of those spot fires coming up. Its a sparsely populated area but an area from which at least 100 people remain evacuated. We spoke with some people this afternoon who had been through the worst of it yesterday and they had finally had enough. They were leaving. They were in such a hurry in fact they didnt care to talk on camera. No estimate yet from cal fire about when this will be finished or yet what caused it. Well be back in an hour with more information. Live from pope valley, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. There is some Financial Relief for all the different agencies battling that fire. Governor brown announced the state has secured a Fire ManagementAssistance Grant from fema, the federal Emergency Management agency, to cover some of the firefighting costs. The grant will allow agencies responding to the fire to cover up to 75 of the expenses they incurred. We will continue to have the latest on the napa valley fire on air and online. You can get the latest updates on twitter. Of course the critical issue always when these things start burning is the weather conditions on the fire line. Spencer christian is here with more on the conditions that firefighters are facing. Lets go right to live doppler 7 hd. Close in here and you can see once again our radar is picking up the smoke showing up as green on the screen here, so the fire is still a very dangerous and destructive fire with a huge plume of smoke coming out of it. The temperature right now 93 degrees, which is about the same as the reading this time yesterday. Earlier in the day it was a bit cooler and the winds were a bit calmer. As you can see we do have gusts up to 13 Miles Per Hour. Relative humidity is slightly higher than it was yesterday at this hour but still very dry there so we still have dangerous fire conditions. A red flag warning for high fire danger extends from the clear lake area northward until 9 00 tonight. The main concern in that area is lightning strikes that could ignite a fire. Back closer to home heres a live view from sfo, you can see some clouds building in the western sky. 62 in San Francisco, 68 in oakland. 57 in half moon bay. Another live view looking westward from emeryville and we have temperature readings right now in the 70s from santa rosa and napa, low to mid80s in novato, concord and livermore. Ill take a look at fourth of july weather coming up in just a few minutes. Developing news from los angeles where the jury that has been deliberating the bryan stow civil suit has hit an impasse, but the judge in the trial has ordered the deadlocked jurors to return to the jury room and continue their deliberations. Stows family is suing the team and former dodgers owner frank mccourt, accusing them of not providing enough stadium security. Jurors have been deliberating since last thursday. The two men who beat stow pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison in the criminal case. A man says hes now seen a Mountain Lion twice. Yesterday morning he found himself just 20 feet away from a big cat. Abc 7 News Reporter vick lee is at the home now with this story. Vic. Reporter scary indeed. The owner of this property saw the Mountain Lion not once, but twice in two days. Now, the sightings were made at the bottom of this hill, ted, if we could zoom over and show our viewers a better look. At the bottom of this hill is a creek bed with some water. Its also where a herd of about 40 deer roam, so its a natural habitat for Mountain Lions. State fish and wildlife believe the cat is young, about one to one and a half years old. It was in the Early Morning hours yesterday when tim weber was awakened by a loud noise. A fawn screaming. It happened several times. Reporter it was coming from the bottom of the hill near the creek bed. He got his son cole and they walked with flashlights through the dense underbrush. No more than 15, 20 feet away from us, this cat just steps up off a dead little fawn and darts up the hill. Reporter the Mountain Lion had been feasting on the young deer it had just killed. We were both like, whoa, thats a Mountain Lion. Like lets get away from here. He was just sitting here watching us the expire time. Reporter weber says the cat just froze in the bushes, its eyes were hypnotic. They glow, like a glowing greenish red color. Reporter today around noon weber thought he saw the lion again as he gazed at the hillside from his deck. We get down and turn the corner and up pops that lion. Its like oh, boy. Reporter this was the second confirmed citing of a Mountain Lion in the bay area since may. This cat ran down an alley between two apartment houses into a parking garage in Mountain View. It hid under a parked van looking scared and confused. The drought most likely caused both cats to become boulder. Animals are going to be more active looking for food and looking for water, so just be aware always. Reporter state fish and wildlife says this area of San Mateo County is a natural habitat for Mountain Lions and their prey, deer. Vic lee, abc 7 news. Happening tonight caltrans will close a part of 280 in San Francisco for the entire fourth of july holiday weekend. Northbound 280 will shut down from the 101 split all the way to 5th street starting at 9 00 p. M. The roadway wont reopen until monday at 5 00 a. M. The closure is necessary to replace aging seismic hinges on overpasses between cesar chavez and 24th streets. If you dont need to be in the area, dont need to be in the city, stay away. It probably will be somewhat congested. Our alternate route will be 101, but even then there will be some delay on that. A similar project was done on the southbound side over the memorial day weekend. For help navigating around traffic problems, you can download our exclusive abc 7 news traffic app for free from your app store. Tonight the department of Homeland Security is ordering urgent new security measures at some airports overseas. Theres growing concern about potential terror attacks on airplanes bound for the u. S. Using a new generation of bombs. Devon dwyer has the latest. Reporter those patdowns, xray machines and a ban on big liquids might not be enough to catch a new generation of bombs, now under development by terrorists in syria. Theyre trying to find bombs that they believe can circumvent security to get on aircraft, to bring down aircraft. Reporter passengers flying into the u. S. From overseas will face even tighter security at airports, starting this month. Abc news has learned some of the new measures could include increased random screening, expanded use of explosive detection machines and a longer list of clothing that may have to be removed for screening. A lot of what theyre going to be doing is driven by intelligence and information about a particular type of phone, a particular type of shoe. Its very likely that the lines will get longer. Reporter Homeland SecurityOfficials Say theyre also on the lookout for radicals who have trained in wartorn syria and have american or european passports which give them easier access to the u. S. All of my european counterparts are focused on this all day every day, trying to track those who are going and who might come back. Reporter with the busy travel season, many passengers say the government cant be strong enough. With all the scares, you can never be too safe. We can do a better job from having them board a plane, i think thats a good thing. Reporter Officials Say no specific plot has been identified but that the danger is very real. Sources say the new sutuecurity measures will take effect in the next two weeks. Today a Mountain View man accused of owning and operating myred book. Com pleaded not guilty to charges of Money Laundering and facilitating prosecution. Eric amuro and his assistant were indicted last month. The indictment says my redbook offered reviews of escort and Massage Services but was mostly used for prostitution. They are due back in court on july 10th. San joses ongoing fight on picks reform will be decided by voters. City leaders will seek a November Ballot measure if passed will scale back two key components of the plan. The changes include allowing former city workers who quit their jobs to come back under their old benefit plan and lowering the bar for police and firefighters to go retire on disability. Union leaders are not pleased, saying the city has not addressed any of their concerns. We equate it to the captain of the titanic yelling out to all the people on the life boats, come on back. I know the ship is sinking but get back onboard. San jose voters overwhelmingly passed the reform plan in 2012. Backers say they had to do something to rein in soaring retirement costs, but city workers have been leaving their jobs for betterpaying positions elsewhere. Leaders in fremont and union city say theyre going to save taxpayer money by squall dating their dispatch centers. A new call center will be built in fremont, which has three many times people as union city. Leaders said combining dispatch operations will save fremont and union city about 400,000 a year. It will take a year and a half for dispatchers to fully integrate into this new twocity system. A centuryold San FranciscoConvalescent Home will be turned into a school. Operators of the home announced today it will sell the assisted living facility to all at that vista school. Proceeds will help the 30 remaining seniors living at the home transition to a new care facility and to pay severance to employees. The seniors will have until the end of the month to move. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, a food bloggers confession. How her passion for helping eating turned dangerous. Plus the community that brought this local veteran to tears today. Its a touching story. New at 4 30, not in their town. Why one bay area city refuses to pay for their fourth of july parade. Taking a live look at your skyway traffic in San Francisco on this wednesday, 4 12, as youre heading away from us on the righthand side, thats traffic going down the peninsula 101 south. On the lefthand side they are going to the lower deck of the bay bridge and on over to the east bay. Full going in both directions. A little better if youre heading south on the peninsula. Stay with us sky 7 hd is live over napa county. Youre looking at a fixed wing air tanker dropping retardant on those flames. Firefighters trying to get a handle on a 3200acre wildfire in pope valley. There you saw that big drop as they try to stop the advance of those flames. Hundreds of structures are still being threatened and mandatory evacuations are still in effect. Obviously were monitoring this closely for you on air and online. You can check us out any time on twitter at abc 7 news bay area. Police have pinpointed a cause for a massive explosion that destroyed a Philadelphia Food truck. A leak from one of the two propane tanks on the truck created a vapor cloud that was ignited by the cooking grill. It was an unbelievable explosion. What remained of the tank was found 150 feet away. It critically injured five people, including the trucks owner and three of her family members. Seven other people suffered injuries that were not as serious. Well, a wellknown diet bloggers passion for Healthy Eating became an unhealthy obsession. The woman behind the blonde vegan said she developed an eating disorder. Juju chang has the story. Reporter for 23yearold jordan younger, going vegan began as a simple goal, to get healthy. Little did she know her humble blog, the blonde vegan, chronicling her impeccable food choices would soon amass a huge fan base on instagram. More than 70,000 followers. An even bigger surprise, when after just a year of living and touting that vegan lifestyle, younger says things went sour. I would just stand in front of the refrigerator for 20 minutes totally panicking that i wasnt going to be eating the right thing for my body. Reporter confessing in a shocking blog post titled why im transitioning away from veganism, that she had developed an obsession with eating righteously. Ive never even heard of it. I lot of people havent heard of it which is not surprising to me at all. Reporter younger said she restricted her own diet so much that she developed a strange rash and grew weak, even stopped having her period. I started realizing that i had vitamin deficiencies. You were malnourished . I was malnourished, yeah. I was very much restricting myself through the shield of veganism. You basically exposed the dark underbelly of veganism. Exactly. Reporter but after coming forward, jordan says she was even more shocked to be bombarded with negative comments. People saying that she wasnt a true vegan, and much worse. I got death threats. I did. On the opposite side of the spectrum, i had so much support from so many people. Reporter now jordan changed her diet adding fish and eggs. Shes also changed her instagram name from vegan to veggie, focusing now on a new direction and a new venture, her new clothing line. The new message is all about balance. Do whatever youre doing in moderation. Reporter juju chang, abc news, new york. A Wounded Warrior got a very special delivery today. Hes the proud new owner of a reconditioned suv. Mechanics worked on the vehicle as a way to say thank you for his service. The Veterans Affairs department helps to choose the recipients of this vehicle program. Awesome i have a car in hawaii, but this is awesome. You see him getting overwhelmed understandably. He served in iraq for ten months until his humvee was hit by an ied in 2005. He is currently unemployed and lives in san mateo. So far the mechanics have restored about five vehicles to help wounded veterans. That is awesome. Time to check on our weather as we head into the holiday weekend. Were getting close. Were all worried about the fireworks. Will we be able to see them. But the worry is also the condition on the fire lines. As for the fireworks, its a close call as you get closer to the coastline, but inland there should not be any problem with friday night fireworks. Lets take a live look at doppler 7 hd and we have a typical early to midsummer pattern, low clouds at the coast, sunny skies inland. Winds are pretty gusty at some spots, up to 25 Miles Per Hour at fairfield, 32 Miles Per Hour gusts at sfo, 16 at novato, 21 in Mountain View so its a breezy afternoon all around the bay area. Heres your look at the Golden Gate Bridge where we have low clouds and fog right now. Traffic moving along nicely, though. These are the forecast features. Well see fog and spotty drizzle tonight. Mild to warm on friday, fourth of july, and it will be heating up this weekend to more summerlike levels. The satellite image shows a trough in the jetstream, a pool of cooler air brings us a cooler than average day. Follow the timeline here, thursday into the weekend, well see a big hot air mass beginning to expand and dominate our weather picture. The temperatures will be rising right on through the weekend and into early next week. Sunset on the fourth of july, 8 35 p. M. Lets talk about that close call for fireworks. A little fog at the coast and maybe a little patch of it drifting over to the east side or eastern edge of the bay. So during conditions near the coast might be pretty good between 9 00 and 9 30. Well hope for the fog to be our friend and stay away until after the fireworks. Temperatures at 8 35 in the evening on fourth of july will be mainly in the 50s near the coast and near the bay, 60s and 70s in our inland locations. Pretty good conditions for our fireworks. Overnight look for lows tonight generally in the mid to upper 50s, much like last night. Tomorrow well see highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Mid70s for the most part on the peninsula, mid to upper 70s. 70 in redwood city. Upper 50s to low 60s at the coast and 65 degrees downtown San Francisco. Mid80s across the north bay tomorrow. Well see low to mid70s on the east bay. On the inland east bay well see highs in the mid to upper 80s. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Well warm up a little bit on saturda