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KGO ABC7 News 500AM June 20, 2017

So for the time being take 880 and well let you know when this gets cleared up. The same area westbound before golf shrinks stalled, big rig is out in lanes there, lane number four. And vasco rode at comean know avenue weve got an accident blocking both lanes there. And also a car into the ditch southbound 101 near steele lane and a tow truck sont way there, may be block a lane. Well keep you updated. Mike. Thank you, sue. Good morning, summer starts today and todays going to be one of our cooler days until we get to the weekend. 57 in San Francisco, 7 00. 59 oakland, you see 69 in san jose, oakland excuse me concord 67 and santa rosa about 69. Still 64. 70s and 80s in our inland neighborhoods and by 4 00 look at all those 80s and 90s inland with 60s and 70s around the bay. As we pull back to 7 00 this evening well have temperatures again in the 60s and 70s around the bay. Still some 80s to 90s inland. Heres reggie with more news. Thanks. Pg e has seen the most heat relalted outages theyve seen be in a decade. We can tell you more than 1200 customers are still without power, most of the them in the south bay. We havent even hit the hottest part of the week yet. Abc 7 News Reporter Tiffany Wilson is live in berkeley with what todays flex alert means. Hey, tiffany. Reporter hey, there, natasha. This heat is not just taxing on our bodies its a major drain on the power grid and thats what brings us to the flex alert. Cal isoissued a statewide flex alert today and tomorrow from twop 00 to 9 00 p. M. So theyre urging everyone to help avoid more Power Outages by limiting use. That means run their appliances dish washing machine, airconditioning early on before electricity peeks. Turn off all necessary lights and set your thermostats to 70 degrees or higher. This flex alert is meant to avoid widespread issues. A pg e says sunday was the most impactful heat event since 2006. On thursday were going to having another event thats similar in temperatures and so were kind of using the knowledge that we gained from this past week and this past weekend and applying it to what we think is coming our way. Pg e is also stationing crews in the most highrisk areas to limit down time if and when outages occur. You can help protect the power grid by following the flex alert guidelines from 2 00 to 9 00 both tonight and tomorrow. Live in berkeley, Tiffany Wilson. Tiffany, thank you. Pg e does say this is the most impactful single heat event theyve seen in more than 10 years. In livermore many businesses around first street were closed yesterday. Theres about intermittent electricity since sunday. Problem is, once the power goes off, the heat rises really fast. Thats because you dont know when the powers coming back, you dont know if youre sending employees home. And mike will tell you more about this, but thursday is forecast to be the hottest day of the workweek. Pg e is trying to staj its crews in the hottest spots so they can respond quickly to any problems. Now a live desk update. Reggie here at the live desk tracking this, the heat causing headaches for travelers this morning. American Airlines Just announced new cancellations today for the heat in phoenix. Seven flights already cancelled yesterday and today, listen to this number. 43 already cancelled. Theyre mostly smaller regional flights from sky harbor to l. A. , palm springs and other california airports and some in arizona. American Officials Say their jets cannot fly when it gets hotter than whun 18 degrees, expected to hit one 20 today and tomorrow in nooen phoenix and a lot of arizona. Investigators will be back out in mar ragaed to try to determine what caused the 16acre grass fire that happened right near a high school. You can see sky 7 over that fire. Started at 2 30 yesterday afternoon and threatened 20 to 30 homes. Residents were asked to shelter, some chose to evacuate instead. They were able to containt flames within a few hours. They say it started some where on private property on the hillside. You can stay on top of the heat wave with the app. Download the app and track your forecast on the go. Were Digging Deeper into this, its a 50page report that finds the cause of the ghost ship fire to be undetermined. Abc 7 News Reporter katy mar zula has more on this report nearly seven months after that deadly warehouse fire. These two photos showed the before and after of one of the areas inside the ghost ship warehouse. They say the space was bordered by a partial trailer on one side and a travel trailer on the other. The fire reduce today all to rubble. In another room you see a table collapsed on to metal chairs and in this photo a dormsize and a fullsize refrigerator both burned from the top down. Investigators say the fire did not originate in these appliances. In fact, the report reveals because of the extensive damage, investigators dont know what started the fire. They cannot rule out candles, incense, a careless or intentional open flame, or most prominently an electrical cause. Electrical engineers with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives found mod if i occasions to the warehouses electrical systems. Two heavily damaged temporary Power Distribution boxes or spider boxes were found in the firedry. The report calls them part of a makeshift system that supplied areas of the building with electricity. In this foet foe you can see whats left of a staircase to the second fleer. The upper section of the staircase and the second floor sur rounding it collapsed on to the first floor. The report indicates several victims also fell from the second floor. But all 36 people who died, died of smoke inhalation. There is one man who was seriously injured and is still in the hospital. His eyewitness account is not available. The ghost ship founder and his second in charge face manslaughter charges in connection with the fire. Abc 7 news. And we have posted this entire report online if youd like to read it you can find it by going to abc7news. Com. Santa rosa detectives are now charge a man with homicide after a fire killed his mother. Officials say 32yearold ian stamp lit the fire sunday at theettes e estates. It spread through the home trapping his 66yearold mother. They found her body in a rear bathroom. Even though detectives dont believe to kill his mother, they booked him for arson and homicide. The u. S. Senate appears to be on a road at passing obamacare. Republicans hold the majority in the senate and gop leaders are crafting the obamacare replacement bill until closeddoor meetings. Democrats spoke against it for several hours on the senate floor yesterday and they promised to use several procedural moves to slow the bills progress. A vote could take place next week. Millions of americans could lose their health coverage. Traffic is flowing this morning after a massive delay on i6080. Chp detoured cars off the freeway at expressway exit last night. They say someone was threatening to jump from the next overpass. Lanes opened just before 10 00 p. M. And no one was hurt. Federal lawmakers are considering a package of bills that would eliminate most rules governing selfdriving cars. They say conflicting laws from 18 states make it difficult to design and test cars across states. Lawmaker released a draft of 14 bilsz under consideration that would consolidate most of those regulations at the federal level. One would, i them to no longer disclose crashes involving these cars. Ive always want dodd this. If you want a visual on how hot its been, look at this photo by the National Weather service in sacramento. They were cook something treats yesterday and tweeting it out write aflg four hours the bacon is crispy and the cookies cooked almost completely through. Lunch is on them. More importantly this serves as a reminder just how hot cars can get and no doubt about it find of been an advocate for that, talk about it a lot. You cant leave anything in the car, a. He, your child, look before you lock. Look in the backseat before you lock the door and leave your car. The car could get up to 150 degrees, its ridiculous how hot it will get. I was joking yesterday i grabbed the Steering Wheel and said a few choice words that arent suitable for television. But in all seriousness its dangerous out there. Listen to your body. Change the heat tips a little bit because were into about our third and fourth day. Listen to your body. If your bodys not feeling it, find some shade, hydrate often as much as you can, wear that light, loosefitting clothing and check on our seen yoerz and pets and our young kids also. They want to be outside playing in this. Temperatures right now, very comfortable on the peninsula, foster city at 60, everybody in the 50s. Lets take a look at the east bay shore, low to mid60s there. North bay mid to 60s and 70 out in antioch. Walnut creek will hit 100 today. Do it this morning, now if you could, exercise. Cool conditions open our beechds and staying cool at the pool or at the beaches strong sunshine. 122 in palm springs and thats not a record high temperature. Are you kidding me in the record high is 123. Ill show you if were going to have sne records coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Sue. Weve got problems in oakland with an yore turned blocking 580 in the is westbound pardon me, eastbound before golf links road and you can see the red sense sores there. Traffic is coming to a halt. They had a temporarily all lanes blocked where they tried to get that overturned out of there. They have not told us if they are reopen and im guessing not because of the look of sensors there. And then westbound the other direction, same area weve got a big rig stalled in the lane number four. So chp headed with a big tow truck there. If you commute, vasco road weve got an accident blocking both lanes there this this that say busy thoroughfare and well come back and check on this acciden in Santa Rosa South 101 with a vehicle into the ditch in just a few minutes. Thank you, sioux. Protecting your bike at bart. The new high tech way to secure your bicycle now being tested. Your bicycle now being tested. The best small town to newspaper details are emerging in the death of a tesla driver killed while us oog his cars mowed. Youre loaning at video hereof this accident. He died after colliding with a large truck in florida last year. He kept his hands off the cars Steering Wheel even reno though onboard warnings told him to grab the wheel. Tesla declined to comment on the federal report. In todays gma first look one of o. J. Simpsons closest friends is talking as parole commissioners prepare to meet and decide his fate. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, o. J. Simpson set to learn exactly when he will face a nevada parole board to ask for his freedom. He says he talks over the phone to the former nfl star on a weekly basis. He wants to keep a low profile, be with his kids, be with his family, play golf is one of his main things. Simpson currently serving 33 years on Armed Robbery and kidnapping charges after a botched 2007 attempt to recover Sports Memorabilia he said belonged to him. The nfl hall of famer already marking a small victory in 2013 when he was granted parole on a few of those charges thanks to good behavior, but its this next hearing that could set him free. Coming up at 7 00 well have more on his hearing with your gma first look. Abc news, new york. Some of americas top tech minds we at the white house yesterday, ten of them from the bay area including ceos of amen, google, intel and adobe. Notice whos missing Facebook Marc zuckerberg. He says he had a conflict. They say skipping the meet wagz mistake. If you care about the direction of this company, if you have the opportunity to go to the white house and sit down with the president of the United States whether its a republican or democrat, show up. Show up and tell them what you believe. Look, no one is going to agree with everything you do, none of us do. But i would be there, i would show up and i would talk about what i care about. The tech leaders looked at ways to updates the governments outdate the tech systems. They also discussed social issues including immigrant rights and global warm. Silicon valley Law Enforcement agencies have released information about a National Program used to identify and arrest suspected child sexual predators. San jose police led the force for Operation Broken heart four. Police say 30 suspects were arrested in Silicon Valley during april and may nationally more than 1,000 suspects were arrested. The operation included more than 4,500 federal, state, and local agencies across the u. S. Happening today activists plan to hold two protests trying to urge city leaders in berkley to block local police from taking part in this years shield exercises. They take part in the large exercise every year. Some Community Leaders feel s. W. A. T. Training leads to the militarization of the local police. It takes place at teb 00 a. M. Before city Council Holds a hearing on city shield. Bart says its making it easier for riders to store their bikes. More secure bike racks are being tested at pleasant street stations. Theyre locked with a mechanism significantly stronger than the bike rack. And an alarm will sound if anyone tampers with the bikes. Theyre allowing them on handrails to allow pass role roll their bikes. U. S. News and world report looked at cities with populations under 100,000 that offered a number of restaurants and attracts. They say sonoma is the best calling it napas rustic, less refined and more relaxed sister. Lake tahoe and monterey ranked fife mg and sixth. I cannot disagree. I love sonoma. Yeah. Sonoma, temperatures pretty unbearable right now. Yes. Sip that wine in the shade, if you will. Absolutely. And then you can walk home or get in your pool. Yeah, ive had friends that lived in sonoma, they absolutely loved it, wish they could move back. Heres a look at the golden gate bridge. Look at the flag right there you can see its blowing towards our neighborhoods and that means more comfort for the bay and for the coast today. But not for our deepest inland valleys where were going to soak up the most daylight we get all year today and tomorrow and turn it into 90 to 1 hungry heat again if the in fact, the heat will build tomorrow with records likely thursday, possibly back towards San Francisco like we had sunday, and then the heat will break for all of us by sunday, which is great for the pride parade. You see a few clouds along the coast but not a thick marine layer like we would like to see the heat wave break. Farther away from water the warmer you get. Morgan hill gilroy 94 and 96. 88 in san jose. 75 mill bright, 80 look at these low 60s along the coast to even 66 in the sunset where well see a little more sunshine. 71 in downtown San Francisco today. Temperatures in the upper 80s, no 90s. Sonoma, 90 degrees. Little hot, not as hot as tomorrow and also thursday. Midto upper 60s, richmond, oakland, and mid80s for everybody else. 98 to about 103 is our spread in our east bay valley. 50s and 60s, more great sleeping weather tonight. My accuweather sevenday forecast, 108 inland to midniepts, maybe 70s at the coast thursday. By the time we goat sunday, 60s, 70s, and mainly 80s. Sioux. All right. Weve got the meetering lights on at the bay bridge 5 18 this morning its going to be the beginning of of a hot day you can see the haze in the sky there and delays behind the toll plaza. We do have a stall or some sort of a hazard westbound right near Treasure Island blocking the left lane chp and bridge crews are on their way to clear that. Three lanes still blocked in oakland. This is the reverse commute east bountd 580 before golf links they had the left lane finally open and temperature looked like just minor delays there. And the other direction westbound before golf links we have a stalled big rig still out there in lane four theyre working to move that off to the should irrelevant. And up to santa rosa a car in a ditch this is southbound 101 near steele lane apparently some major damage there. You may see some slowing. Thank you, sioux. A dump truck driver now faces dui charges after plowing into the san person with know senior sfer. 55yearold joe swef seville of alameda was under a controlled substance and this crystal meth on him. About 13 people were playing bingo in the room and no one got hurt thankfully the the Senior Center suffered major damage its going to be closed indefinitely. Sean spicer is going to be having a new role. Kimberly gill foil has expressed her interest in the spicers condition. He wants to take on Senior Adviser for communications. White house reporters have expressed frustrations that spicer is holding fewer briefings and more of them off camera. Personal information belonging to 198 million americans was uncovered on an amazon server. The data includes home addresses, birth dates, phone numbers of voters from both parties and not a single password was protecting it. The information was compiled by Virginia Company called deep root analytics. That company was hired by the Republican National committee. Deep root has taken full responsibility and has now blocked it from public access. Coming up next, the seven things you need to know as you start your day. Plus this photo thats 24 years old going viral. Years old going viral. And i quit smoking with chantix. I was very grateful to have chantix. At times when i would normally go smoke, i just didnt its kind of like wait a minute, i would normally be running out the door to go grab a cigarette. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Chantix reduced my urge to smoke. 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