101 meets interstate 280. Police say the driver of a Parks Department vehicle ran over the woman with the pickup truck thanks to witness description officers found the driver few blocks away. Police plan to book him on felony hitandrun charges. Other people of the park tried to help the woman but sadly to new avaichlt one long time resident says maintenance vehicle have been a problem for years. It has been a major beef of mine because they drive randomly up there. The park people. Yes. Even after hours. I have seen one that had a truck and taking baseball kids up there and i work for the park and. Its a busy play. Tape block the white towel the mother was lying on at the time. As for the baby shis unhurt and with her father. Well after several days of frustration drivers appear to be growing more accustomed to commuting across the new bay bridge. Theres a live look at the San Francisco sky way and approach to the lower deck of the bridge. Thick with traffic as usual but the afternoon drive toward the bridge from the peninsula was greatly improved today. Heres what the traffic is like on the bridge itself writ now. Highway patrol puts at least part of the blame for 2 day of congestion on curious drivers who likely slowing down to admire the new span. But everyone is getting used to it a little bit more now. In Southern California westbound interstate 10 in fontana which is east of los angeles is still shut down because of massive gang from big rig this hit an overpass. Traffic reporter from our sister station k abc describes it this way. Flatbed rig with trailer tracktor on the back of the rig hit the citrus overpass. There is damage there things debris hanging over the side of the freeway. That bridge may damaged. May repair and dont know the construction integrit integrity. Look at the tractor on the back of that big rig. Its just destroyed. Most likely hitting the bridge with a good deal of speed. Well as you can imagine traffic backed up for miles in the area. Roadway is scheduled to reopen at midnight. This is the second accident this year in april big rig hit the same overpass and same westbound direction. Come back up here to Northern California where we are bracing for a real rise in temperature this is weekend. We have the forecast. You are so right. Heres look at live doppler 7 hd. You can see we have little patches of clouds low clouds down along the coast line. During the summer month we have an absence of marine layer and on shore flow that generally means a big warmup our way and thats about what is to had a. A little teaser. Tomorrow a sampling of tomorrow high inland high in the east bay and parts of the south bay as well part of the low 90s we see temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s right around the bay up to around 70 on the coast. And bigger warmup coming up over the weekend and temperatures breaking 100 degree mark and give you a closeup look at exactly where the greatest heat concentrated when i come back with my 7 day forecast in a few minutes. Thanks very much see you shortly. Hundreds of thousands of acres scorched and Police Say One man a hunter started a small campfire that sparked that enormous fire in and around yosemite that burned for 18 days now. Clayton san del explains how firefighters figured out what happened. Th the. Reporter firefighters dont know when they will stop the massive rim fire but tonight they know how it started. Officials now blaming a hunter for burning illegal campfire that got out of control. In just 20 day already chewed through more than 370 square miles of forest area bigger than dallas, texas and over 100 structures. Cost so far . 77 Million Dollars. Unidentified hunter has not been arrested but may on the hook to pay back at least some of the cost. The Forest Service says nearly 9 in 10 wildfires are caused by people. Thats one of the reasons they are rolling out smokey bear 2. 0. In new Public Service announcements conscientious campers now get hugs. Only you can prevent wildfires. Reporter but the message is the same as it was 70 years ago. Fires are serious. In this case one person may have nearly destroyed a national treasure. Yosemite national park. This is abc news colorado springs. Students once again attending Elementary School in humboldt county. School forced to close because someone stole its water supply. It happened in bridge feechltd its believed someone climbed a fence used the School Garden hose to drain 20,000 gallons of water from on site tank side phoning the water into a large truck then leaving. Without water the school couldnt use the bathroom. Blythe or not this is the tebingd time it has happened. Month ago 20,000 gallon of World Trade Center stolen from tanks here. The Shivers Department says warm dry weather conditions are to blame for this. Bizarre. Legal show down under way in san jose hitting google g mail service against privacy advocate. Federal judge deciding whether people who have those free g mail accounts maybe you have one have had their privacy violated. Fvl david has the story. Critic compare google to vacuum cleaner sucking up the details about the users. They admit they use awed mated process to scan every email sent or received by g mail 4 25 million users. It spelled out google says in the fine print of its Privacy Policy and terms of service. Class action lawsuit aim to stop scanning claiming its invasion of privacy. This is terrible invasion of our privacy. Reporter hes president of consumer watch dog. We talked to him by skype. This is all about Google Business model of gathering as much data as it can about our appetite, our hirng, our desire so that it can target us with marketing. Reporter in federal court in san jose google trice trying to get the case dismissed. Hearing today attorneys for the two sides debating the fine print. Whether users know google scans email to target advertising to them. Absolutely fair bold fine print underline 32. The eye tall icks that go through my mail. Honestly the internet is creepy so everybody is used to it by now. It could be pivotal for future google services. Privacy issues talk about the google glass taking video and self driving cars. Technology that will give geeling and advertisers more details about users. Interest. Preferences including where they like to eat. Google attorney decline an interview saying they have no comment at the u. S. District court news san jose, abc 7 news. It could be the largest lay off of its kind in contra costa county. It is happening in an Industry Health care that is otherwise growing. John muir health that serves 3 counties is selling off the outpatient lab. Hundreds could lose their jobs. Heres laura anthony. People are stressed. Reporter scott is one of nearly 200 employees who work at the main muir lab facility in North Concord. Complex that will close by the end of the year. Uncertainty and everything up until this point is hard on them. Now that we have an official announcement people may have an opportunity to get on with things. John muir health has sold muir lab to lab corps which already has a large presence in the east bay. We have gotten frequent complaint both from patients and physicians about the cost of our lab services. Reporter John Muir Health spokesman ben drew told us that muir lab could no longer compete. In an increasingly tight marketplace dominated by a few large companies. This is not reflective of the work that they have done. Simply the realities of what we are facing in a very competitive lab services industry. Reporter while the 56,000 square foot facility in North Concord close muir lab 26 Patient Service centers in Northern California will stay open under new ownership. Lab corps has assured the 5 40 employees of muir lab that they will hire at least 150 of them. Perhaps many more. That includes courier and three in bought mist that currently work for muir. No time is a good time to be looking for a job. Reporter courier supervisor roger relieved many jobs will be saved but worries for himself and others who may soon be out of work. John muir health in general muir lab in particular such good employers that we have people been here a long long time so they have set the bar pretty high so it will be interesting to see what its like in the future. Reporter one benefit patient muir lab expects that lab corps will be able to offer the same services at lower prices. In concord, laura anthony, abc 7 news. More ahead this thursday night. You have heard the old saying you have to burn the village in order to save it . California biologist trying to save a rare trout by poisoning a river. That story plus. Im in sacramento. Substantial change to california drug sentencing la laws. Possession of cocaine or heroin could be considered a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Also ahead. This was certainly no ordinary car accident. What one of the vehicle had in the trunk. And Virgin Galactic one step closer to commercial space closer to commercial space ou in. Sacramento tonight lawmakers looking at way to change the state drug law. The goal keep lesser offenders from clogging up the courts and the prison. 7 news capitol correspondent annette has the story tonight from sacramento. He wouldnt give us his last name but done hard time in prison for drug possession. Felony follow him for life. Making it difficult to mav on now that hes clean. Get a good job its hard because they are not going to really accept you because of the record that you have under these drug possession and like that. After what is considered a routine vote the state legislature will likely send Governor Brown proposal that would allow local prosecutors to charge possession of small amount of cocaine or heroin as misdemeanor rather than a felony. The choice is theirs. Instead of sentencing offender behind bars for three years the maximum sentence could be one year in county jail saving about 160 Million Dollars a year. Today more than 4000 inmates serving prison time for simple drug possession. Felony should be about violent crime. Felony should be about crimes where you hurt someone or take from someone else. Felony not appropriate for what somebody puts into their own body. Hardest drug to break. Addiction. Assemblyman jones used to work with family in crisis through his church. He says keeping the feloniously status for hard drug help addict get the help they need through proposition 36 funds. Part of that hitting rock bottom is convicted of a felony. In california we have an avenue for them to seek treatment with these funds. We already have a way out to help them up when they do hit rock pwoichlt i think misdemeanor if you keep on getting the misdemeanor, you learn. I think that slap on the wrist getting this is just not enoug enough. Hard to say what the governor will do as california former attorney general he was very tough on crime. But as governor, brown is a big fan of letting local make their own decision. Don hopes the governor gives people a second chance. Simple possession shouldnt be as harsh as it is. Measure does not affect Marijuana Possession which will remain an infraction. In sacramento, abc 7 news. Nearly 2 month long Hunger Strike by california inmates is over. Inmate ended protest today after 2 bay area lawmakers agreed to hold hearings looking into a policy that allow prisons to keep gang leaders in Isolation Unit for long periods of time. Some 20 years apparently. More than 30,000 inmates began revving meals when the strike gap on july 8. But by this week the number had dwindled to 100 including 40 who had been on strike continuously sense the protest began. Certainly not everyone is happy about how state officials are saving fish in the sierra. The cut throat trout is apparently the rarest trout in the world. It has been pushed out by Invasive Species from its home in silver king creek. So yesterday officials pump poison into a 11 miles of the water way to kill off the unwanted fish. Poison is now neutralize but local officials take issue with this deliberate pollution. Poison used is banned in Coastal Water in the United States and in entirely in europe. But state biologist say the poison will hardly impact anything but fish. Some people are not buying it. We shall see. Lets talk about the weather forecast. Spencer here close to the weechbility heat is coming back. It is. Special aally over the weekend. Full force over the weekend. Live doppler 7 hd. We have mainly clear skies across the bay area. Few little patches of some low clouds near portion of the coast line not the entire coast line. Heres live view from the High Definition roof top camera along em become dare o. Current temperature readings 6 64. San francisco mid 60s at Oakland Redwood city san Jose Los Gatos and 61 at half moon basement live view from the exploring camera looking back at coyote tower in San Francisco. Other temperature readings for you this the at hour. 72 santa rosa. 64 nap a. 72 novato. Antioch. Concord 69. Livermore 65 and now looking at the Golden Gate Bridge look at our forecast features speed limit warmup begins tomorrow. Its hot inland for the weekend and beyond actually with 100 degree temperatures on sunday and monday. Quite warm couple days but wont last long. Composite image low pressure system up to our north for couple days now. Beginning to pull await a minute much warmer tomorrow. Certainly feel warmup tomorrow but followup forecast animation look ahead to saturday sunday. Get even warmer as the center of hurry places low pressure system clockwise circulation around the high we get offshore flow which means warmer air from inland out to sea so we have some sizzling september weather beginning on saturday continue go through monday. As a matter of fact we look at our projected High Pressure range next seven days. Livermore up to 100 degrees on saturday. 102 on sunday and monday. Down to about 94 on tuesday then tapering off in the upper 80s after that. So we have some hot days ahead. Especially the 3 day period of saturday through monday. Overnight tonight mainly clear skies except for patches of coastal fog. Low pressure mainly about 59 or 60 degrees for most of the bay area. Tomorrow its sunny in the afternoon with High Pressure in the south bay. 80s up to about 90 morgan hill but lack for 88 at los gatos. 84 at san jose peninsula. San m teo low 80s at redwood city. Palo alto and Mountain View on the coast. 68 at pacifica. 70 at half moon bay. Downtown San Francisco will soar to 74 degrees many t to. 70 sunset district up in the north bay lots of upper 80s santa rosa, sonoma, 90 at napa and calistoga. On the east bay we see high of 82 oakland san leandro. Fremont 84 Castro Valley inland east bay narrow range of low 90s across the board there. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. So we get in the triple digit on sunday monday in many of our not many but quite a few of our inland locations and temperatures will dropoff rather sharply on tuesday. Still low 90s inland on tuesday then much cooler weather on wednesday with high in the inland location reaching only into the 80s but nice little spell of hot weather for three days. Great time for the beach and out door activity. Coming soon to inland location near you. Heat. Thanks. Still to come on 7 news at 9 00. New tesla challenge ceo plans. Cross Country Mission plans. Cross Country Mission to pro cell phone video captured dramatic crash in colorado. Watch. Police say one car rear ended another and that the car that was rear ended had oxygen canister in the trunk. Those canister fueled the flames and the explosion you just saw. Police say the man rear ended is seriously hurt. Man who hit him is arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. Heavy pwlaevrngt of fog is being blamed for multicar pileup today in england. Up to 100 cars were involved in kent bridge south east of london. More than 60 people were hurt. 8 of them seriously. Cars trucks collided in each other. One after the other. Look at this mess. Witness say for 10 minutes they heard a steady stream of car tires screeching. Cars thud and glass break. One truck driver called a hero. He used his vehicle to block the entrance to the bridge stopping even more cars from crashing in the pile up. Oklahoma city car in sync hole in the downtown area 2 women getting off work when they saw puddle no big deal they thought until the car suddenly fell in and was medley swallowed up like this. Women were able to crawl out of the back window to safety and as the things go the car was brand new purchased just one month ago. Went you just know it. City says a water main break is to blame here. Car theme for another momen moment. Chief executive at tesla palo alto electric car company is out to prove a point tonight. Hes hoping to show his high tech all electric vehicle is as practical as any other car out there on the roa road. To that end the ceo plans to drive a test la model s across the country from los angeles to new york in 6 days and with only nine hours of charging time. He will be promoting the charging station tesla is setting up along the way but what hes really wanting to do here is to dispel the negotiations that electric car are inconvenient and impractical, the notion. More to come for you. Being over weight may not come from what you put in your stomach but what is already in it. Coming up next. How become tieria from people whoa are thin could help treat obesity. Also Progress Report