Director Robert Mueller who once served as u. S. Attorney in San Francisco. The white house was blind sided by the announcement getting 30 minute heads up coming 24 hours after james comey kept notes of his meeting with the president. Washington is in shock because the white house gets hit with a third bomb shell in just as many days and now lawmakers and the administration are scrambling to respond. In a week of breaking development. I mean obviously thats a step in the right direction. A major decisn from the department of justice. Very solid and significant step. The department of justice appointed a special council to take over the investigation of the russian interference with the 2016 president ial campaign. Whatever investigation goes on will be headed by bob mueller former director of the fbi and renowned lawyer. Now mueller has ability to take the matter before a grand jury and issue subpoenas and will have the daunting task of addressing all of the recent controversy surrounding the white house. Take all that together and then assess is this obstruction or not. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are showing cautious signs of optimism. This takes the politics out of it, hopefully, this has gotten too political. President trump released a statement saying this investigation will only prove that his campaign did nothing wrong. Reporting from washington, abc 7 news. Robert mueller has strong ties to the bay area, he worked as a litigator out of law school until 1976. And he then moved to the San Francisco office where he became chief of the criminal decision. And he again left in 1982 and came back in 1988 as u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of california. We just spoke with the u. S. Attorney here who served under him. I think its great, by incontributory negligeni integri integrity, commitment,p no one is better than Robert Mueller. Hes served in the process of investigation and i think he will do a very thorough job. Up until today mueller was working at a d. C. Law firm and resigned from that right away to accept this responsibility and said he will discharge to the best of his ability. That investigation will include subpoena powers. The Dow Jones Industrial average fell nearly 373 points. Nasdaq dropped. And s p down 43. Investors are concerned congress will be tied up in investigation instead of passing legislation like tax reform. Issues being raised 47yearold Pedro Aguilar in handcuffs has gone viral. We have the latest. Why was an arrest being conducted. Why was he being asked for his identification. Those questions being asked by activities following the rest of pedro seen here sitting on the ground in handcuffs. This picture caused so much pain for people and touched a nerve at a time when theres such a crisis of confidence in sheriffs. Today the Sheriffs Office responded sayg fruit vendors are typically not seen in this neighborhood. It was a neighbor who called to have him removed. This case would not have ended in an arrest had the person not tried to push past our deputy and try to run and flee. Theres a lot of folks in oakland all over oakland selling stuff, im sure they dont have permits but all theyre doing is trying to make a living. During the arrest was discovered that he had an ankle monitor and is on probation. Sheriffs office will not cooperate with immigration officials to have him deported. The sheriffs job is not immigration enforcement. We have plenty of work to do. Latest figures show arrests up by 41 compared to last year. Not clear where he will end up of in oakland, abc 7 news. A federal judge in seattle blocked nationwide enforcement to prevent nonprofit to obtain Legal Assistance providing certain Legal Assistance to immigrants. The seize and assist order a judge said will violate constitutional rights. List of charges accused of arsonist jameiss bishop accused of eleven car fires in may. Officers took him into custody in benicia. Today he was charged with 26 counts of arson and investigators are looking into at least 30 more car fires he may be connected to. They identified his car capture ud on Surveillance Video near the fire scenes. As these incidents occurred we became very concerned and accelerated our coordination and were very relieved to have him in custody. He was convicted in Los Angeles County for rain of child in 19 9d 3 and receiving stolen property in 2010. Emotional testimony from the sister of sierra la mar as juriojury wiped away tears as danielle described her relationship with her sister. She testified about the day sierra disappeared saying, quote, there were cops everywhere and i knew it wasnt good. It is up to the jurors to decide whether Garcia Torres receives the Death Penalty for life in prison. Animal rescue group is increasing reward offer to 10,000 coming after 12 dead dogs were found. Investigators determined a dea goat found in the same area yesterday is unrelated to the dog case. A San Francisco family really needs help solving a myster mystery, to find he his missing husband, who is an uber driver, his wife is worried that a passenger may got him tangled in some kind of trouble. Hes been missing for four days and the kiss miss him so badly. They call out for his name. They call his phone. They ask me when is daddy coming home. San Francisco Police are having a hard time tracking him, his cellphone is turned off and the gps on his mercedesbenz is not working. Uber informed us they dont believe he went missing while on the uber platform. They are working with sfpd on the investigation and urge anyone with information to call police immediately. Up next precaution under way at south bay schools after hundreds of students became sick. And whales are back in the bay, and we have a expert who has a good reason why. And temperatures responding nicely with numbers climbing in coming days. And real life Jerry Springer show, a celebration among teens youre going to be hanging out in here. So if you need anything, text me. Do you play . Use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. You got next . Chase. Helping you master whats now and whats next. At crowne plaza we know Business Travel isnt just business. Theres this. a bit of this. Why not . Your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. Which is what we do. Crowne plaza. Were all business, mostly. The sunll come out for people with Heart Failure, tomorrow is not a given. 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We spoke with school staff and parents. Remember germs are everywhere, whats the best way to wash away the germs. For a number of tstudents in the south paw south south bay. Over 140 students became sick with stomach flu. Principle is reminding parents even when kids are symptom free they still need to stay home for 48 hours. Realtime information that is honest but more importantly supports what they can or shouldnt do. So far hacienda magnet reported most cases at a Single School with more than 90 kids dealing with nauseous, diarrhea. They will kbe home doing their homework. I came to pick up their sprouts lesson. So well keep them busy. At each of the schools impacted high touch surfaces are being wiped down with bleach. The play structure and playground equipment were off limitsuring recess and cleaning crews are coming in after hours to do an extra scrub. Making sure that the kids who do get infected stay home for a while and dont reintroduce the virus back into the schools. Open houses and school plays have been cancelled as a precaution. District officials evaluating on a case by case basis. Abc 7 news. Air quality Officials Say they determine the cause of a rotten egg smell in richmond last december. Today bay area officials announced four violations in the chevron refinery in richmond in connection to that odor saying it was sulfur odor, chevron denies the charge but agreed to pay 18 1 181,000 in fines. Chevron believes it is unlikely the flare something source of the orders. A school potentially to be split in two different districts. We might lose special education programs. Transitional kindergarten program. A school that draws 600 schools from concord, wul nut creek and clayton but he worries his halls could be half district. It could take about 53 of our population and 15 to 20 members of our staff. Theres a movement to pull 4200 of students to north gate new district. Highland wouldnt move but 300 of its students could. Concerned for my kids. Its their first year at highland and its a little bit scary. The parents get a choice for the first time ever. Jim sits on the board leading the effort. He says hilands families could stay right where they are. Families will have the option to transfer in but also to transfer out if they prefer a Neighborhood School like highlands. Absolutely if they cut the funding for it. My sons graduating but ds behi. The contra county board of education is expected to decide on the north gate petition by the end of the summer. Abc 7 news. Well, theyre back for the second year in a row, oils have ventured into San Francisco bay. We captured whales breaking into the waters early this season. It is their feeding season so on the look out for krill and anchovies. Were going to keep a look out to see if it is the same whales coming in from last year, so its a newly learned behavior. Experts say dont hesitate to come out and watch the whales just do it from a safe distance. Yeah thats great. Going to be nice to maybe go out and find somewhere cool to be in the next couple days. Absolutely and drew is here with the forecast. You want to go to the coast especially as we head to the weekend. The heat will turn to summer like levels. We had tons of sunshine. Tonight we had clear scan. Plenty of stars and a really comfortable night and probably the only fly in the ointment in next couple days will be pollen, its out of control at the moment. Grass pollen at high levels will continue into the future and treealso at high levels. Those two the combo will continue well into the weekend. Nolergiy sufferers. Quiet conditions in San Francisco. We do continue to have a breeze right now. Especially along the coast. Sfo gusting at 26 miles an hour. 21 at san carlos. Away from the coast winds will be breezily winds excess of 20 miles an hour at times. Temperaturewise santa rosa pretty comfortable 61 degrees. Overnight tonight, plenty of stars, little breeze along the coast, temporari temperatures i 50s. Going to be bright and beautiful tomorrow five to seven degrees warmer than today, so 80 in fairfield. 68 in San Francisco. 73 in oakland. Its summer like heat across the region. By friday tons of sunshine. We go back to the 90s. Coast upper 60s then its down right hot over the weekend from sunny skies from start to finish you see temperatures well above normal. This time of year for the next two mondays wear that sun scree because you can burn with your skin unprotected. Its going to be a bright and mild day for the racers. At 8 00 the winds are calm. By 9 00 and 10 00 temperatures well into the 60s will go well into the 70s by sunday afternoon. So the next seven days, rising temps on thursday and numbers rise into saturday. Still hot inland on sunday. Start to cool off on monday and then well get that sea breeze kicking in mid week next week. Its all about summer like heat especially into this weekend. They used to rule the skies, dinosaurs with wings. We have a sneak peak at a new exhibit in the for millions of baby boomers theres a serious virus out there thats been almost forgotten. Its hepatitis c. One in 30 boomers has hep c, yet most dont even know it. Because it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and its not tested for in routine blood work. The cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. If you have hep c, it can be cured. For us its time to get tested. Ask your Healthcare Provider for the simple blood test. Its the only way to know for sure. You may not know his name but you know his work, a new exhibit is opening on an artist who provided the look of disneys Sleeping Beauty i ivan earl was a back ground painter when he caught the eye of disney himself and was selected as lead stylist for that disney classic and wanted base his art on persian and japanese works. The elongated characters and really embellished landscapes with patterns so it look morz like tappesty. The retrospective includes more than 250 works of art. Awakening beauty opening tomorrow at the walt disney family museum. They werent birds or bats, a preview of new exhibit of these new reptiles. They lived about 100 billion years ago. The Russian Investigation gets a special council. Republicans are on board. Rare bipartisan in washington, also he has the expertise and experience. Lawmakers are reacting to the scandal in the Trump Administration businessman 2 weve gone over the numbers several times, and. Businessman 1 yea, yea, yea. You know what im craving right now . Businessman 1 over speaker guacamole and bacon. Audio tech we got a craving go go go music crashing cravings in the crave van. Jacks gonna crash your crave jack hey guys, try my guacamole and bacon chicken sandwich with all white meat chicken, guacamole and pepperjack cheese. Businessman 1 thanks jack. Wait. Were on the 18th floor. How did you get here . Jack hard work. Jack vo you crave it, we serve it. Try my new guacamole and bacon chicken sandwich. Music crave van live where you live, this is abc 7 news. We begin this half hour with the appointment of a special council to oversee the investigation into possibility russia meddling in the 2016 president ial election. Former fbi director Robert Mueller will lead that investigation, he will have sweeping powers to investigate if the Trump Administration had colluded with russian staff. President trump saying there was no collusion between he and any foreign entity. News traveling across the hill both sides wan fbi director james comey to testify the American People about his meeting with the president. With his white consumed by crisis President Trump venting to the coast guard class. Look at the way ive been treated lately. Especially by the media. No politician in history and i say this with great puritiy has been treated worse or more unfairly. But back in washington even members of the president s own party say we may be at a tipping point. I think were reaching a point of watergate size and scale. The latest allegations rippling through the party, that news that president asked then fbi director james comey to shut down his investigation into firing National Security advisor michael flynn. Tonight both parties calling for comey to testify. Saying we need to hear from him soon as possible in public to respond to issues raised in recent days. And leaders of three congressional committees want to see the memo comey wrote documenting conversation with the president. That seems like an extraordinary use of influence. To try to shut down an investigation being done by the fbi. Do you want comey to testify . On the hill a dizzying day of dodges with some republicans making their discomfort clear. Republicans cant be okay with this. Tonight one republican congressman reporting if the allegations in the comey memo are true it could be an impeachable offense. The speaker of the house is still backing the president but not without confrontation. 118 days republicans hoped to be plowing ahead with their a gepda on health care, tax reform deregulation instead crisis to crisis. Donald trump warned this would happen on Hillary Clinton presidency. If hillary was elected would be under protracted criminal investigation likely followed by the trial of a sitting president. The investigation will last for years. Nothing will get done. Abc 7 news capitol hill. Now former fbi director james comey could appear before congress as early as next week. We caught up with his farm. Hes been following events in washington closely. With good reason. In 1973 as watergate unfolded, he was then a republican to call for the impeachment of president nixon. Its a dead ringer. What caused nixon to be impeached was for obstruction of justice because nixon asked the fbi not to investigate the cia. A decorated korean war hero and now democrat said he met donald trump in the late 90s. Brawl a brawl brap. A brawl broke out in a fistthrowing, hairpulling, wate waterthrowing ruckus, it may have resulted from someone trying to save seats. One was handcuffed. Unclear if anyone was arrested. Now new video you see students screaming after being pepper sprayed at a high school, turns out they volunteers but did the exercise go to far. Tonight, the video of students at a school being pepper sprayed. You the kids screaming in pain not only volunteered for it got permission from their parents as part of a criminal justice class. The instructor is a former police chief, this waiver warning the spray will cause Burning Sensation for approximately 30 minutes to an hour. A popular Law Enforcement blog criticized the move. If he is going to have these weapons to use on people he needs to know how they feel. And the School District says added super vision was added by School Police insisting the students were never in danger. Amazon. Com is thinking about getting into the pharmacy business. The company has hired a consult apt to figure out how they can break into the multibillion dollar industry. Would face n challenges because of prescription transfer laws. Women in the u. S. Are having babies later in life, first time mothers between 30 and 34 are delivering more babies then 20 and 29. The average age women are having their first child is 28. Coming up next big steps in artificial intelligence. Going to hear a big announcement out of googles Io Developers conference. And were celebrating events where you live. Oakland tofu master will be at San FranciscoAsian Art Museum tomorrow night to discuss all of the delicious dishes you can make with tofu. Learn more on our website. I have spent years taking overthecounter products for my belly pain and constipation. Ive had it up to here its been month after month of fiber. Weeks taking probiotics days and nights of laxatives, only to have my symptoms return. vo if youve had enough, tell your doctor what youve tried and how long youve been at it. Linzess works differently from laxatives. Linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. It can help relieve your belly pain, and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. Do not give linzess to children less than six, and it should not be given to children six to less than 18. It may harm them. Dont take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. Get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. The most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. If its severe, stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. Other side effects include gas, stomacharea pain, and swelling. Talk to your doctor about managing your symptoms proactively with linzess. It is a venue that has hosted legendary bands but today is was google that took the stage at shoreline amphitheater for its developer io conference we were there tweeting the event. A whack a mole game about crashing servers. A photo booth. Its no arcade its google io. Good morning welcome to google io. In the past google has unveiled shiny new gadget but today a processor for dataent is centers. Were building what we call ai data center. It is getting more and more like conserving with a individual. What can i start you with. Straw berry poppy seed salad. Got it how about one of these school drirnnks. Whats up . Traffic is heavy you will need to leave in 14 minutes. You go out to dinner with group of friends someone takes a photo on their camera you will never see that photo. Now will recognize your copy and can make it automatic. Every time i take photos of my daughters my wife will get those photos immediately. And new area of technology is called augments reality. It shows the heart beating. You will swear theres a heart suspended in space. Students can get up close to see the detail. Can get a sense of the scale. Expedition augments reality goes with will also have gps in a store and ar meets ai something called google lens. See something ask a question. Google says getting an answer should just happen. In Mountain View abc 7 news. Kevin durant today gave back to the doves hometown see what a difference his Charitable Foundation gave back to this oakland park. Stay with us. The new accuweather app by abc 7 news. Minute by minute forecast. Handling the unexpected. Doesnt happen by accident. Lake tahoe is now above its natural rim and close to reaching its legal capacity. A year ago we showed you how low the level was. The damn is fully open. The lake level is rising thanks to record precipitation and snow pack over the winter, will likely go higher than legally allowed which will require release of a foot over the next few months. Youre going to want to find nice body of water to hang out next to in next couple days. Absolutely right guys the temperatures will climb to summerlike levels on saturday. You will have clear skies and plenty of sun to warm us up tomorrow. Overnight. Clear skies. 50 in san jose. 50 in oakland. 45 in napa overnight. Thursday temperatures nice and mild 83 in antioch. 79 in san jose. 6 8 in San Francisco. 82 in santa rosa. Uv index thursday is very high, sun at the strongest in the next two months so wear that sun screen 1 a. M. To 4 00 p. Nothing but sunshine across the weekend. Will start to cool off starting monday along the coast. Thank you. Oakland a slugger. Ryan healy smashed a win against the mariners. Healy hits it high and deep to left field. And that baby is gone into the up eper deck. One fan got his phone smashed by the ball, it had that velocity. Tweeted this, hoping they might do something. He got a little heat on social media for doing it. My phone got hit by Oakland Athletic home run ball. And twitter is giving you a hard time. Laa little bit. Its whatever though the as said they will replace the damage done. Alls well that ends well. Kevin durant took a break from the teams action to give back to some of the teams devoted fans. He took center court to help a project he helped pay for. Kevin durant got a rauk us reception at lincoln park in china town. He was talking about giving back to young people. I would do this as often as i could. Its amazing so many came out and supported. This impacts so many people here the impact his Charitable Foundation was having was right under our feet. He and others paid to renovate the lincoln basketball courts. And another thumbs up from nba player for whom the court was named. I enjoy watching young people out here doing this. Hes trying to keep kids from going the wrong way to build courts all across the country and far away as india. It was cool. Its like i never saw kevin durant before. Do kids like the new courts . You might call it a slam dunk i like it actually i think its a good investment for the community. Theyre new. Theyre nice, i really like them. If youre kevin durant two things will never get old one giving back to the community the other winning nba titles, hes already a champ at giving back maybe this year hell get an nba champ ring to go with that. Were hoping. Right. Now with sports. Its always so much fun when they dedicate the courts top so many of those events its perfect and pristine. If things get teps good evening. Giants going for a sweep of the dodgers at at t park but Clayton Kershaw put a end to that giants accusing the dodgers of stealing signs. We start with this. Dodgers jump on johnny cueto early. Top of the first. Grandal golfs two out double off the wall. And two score. So 20 l. A. To the third. Grandals next atbat look out johnny coming high and tight, gets away from buster posey. Cueto scores. T cueto allowed five runs in six ingles. Kershaw all business strikes out Michael Morrison in the fifth. Next battle williamson and the whif kershaw seven scoreless struck out five 61 the final ugly finish to a 52 homestand. Great homestand, yeah, got to k be happy with it. Won the series. Would have liked to come away with the win but have to be happy going into the off day tomorrow how we played at home. Former giants slugger barry bonds have a plaque unveiled on the giants wall of fame saturday july 8th he joins 48 others giants legends who received the wall of fame honor he is currently works as a advisor for the giants. As in seattle. Old school there in green and gold. Youll get nothing and like it. A reliever goes career high seven and third and struck out nine. Going to score a couple. This next one driven deep. I got it, i got it, i aint got it. Kind of nice for the as the way twenty. This game went final 40 mariners. Encouraging news for the warriors who will fly to texas to be with the game three and four hes missed eight of the ten warriors playoff games after having back fluid to repair final splu id leak that has caused headaches so no word when kerr will return to the bench for golden state. Andre iguodalas knee is out. Mccaw exploded for 18 points in his absence. He was nervous in the game. A little reluctant to shoot. Im a rookie so at first its kind of nerve wracking but i got comfortable the guy hz a lot of confidence in me to play my game and take shots. Biggest thing for him his aggressiveness, get a open shot take it. Thats a good shot for us. And understanding the moment when he gets the ball in his hands just make the right decision, be aggressive and try to make things happen. He did that all game. Game one eastern conference final. Celtics hosting the cavaliers. Cavs were off for week and half so you expect rust not lebron james down the middle. Look at the sweet reverse finish. Nobody can guard lebron or kevin love. 313 for love. Lebron finished with 38, smooth like butter cavs 117102. Game two on friday. San Jose Earthquakes hosting orlando city fc. Tommy thompsons shot redirected. The pride of danville his fifth goal of the season and this game ends in a 11 draw. Stage four tour of california, 99. 1 mile santa barbaraia to santa colllarita s pretty. Four hours and 52 seconds is the winner. And heads into tomorrows climb of mt. Baldy. Abc 7 sports brought to you by toyota. You see the way cleveland won in boston just i route and what we expect to happen in next couple games between the warriors and spurs and for the third year in a row cavswarriors on a collision course in the nba finals. What a great rivalry its been. Going to be intense if it goes down that way. Well see. Coming up next, Robert Muellers connections, talk to the man tasks with the investigating President Trump and his ties to russia. And find out how protecting your cat or dog from flees could put the ecosystem at risk. Join us at abc 7 news at 11 00 on channel 7 for all of us here thanks for being with us. Have a good rest of your evening. If you can meet us in an hour on channel 7. narrator reading narrator today, a pair of wealthy, young newlyweds take a dream honeymoon to south africa. But within days of their arrival, the trip goes horribly wrong. On the outskirts of cape town, their taxicab is violently hijacked