Im kate larson in San Francisco where the school board took a vote that left few happy about a controversial mural that some feel is racist. Im amanda del castillo in santa clara. People started noticing overgrown weeds and unkempt conditions. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Im tracking a summer scorcher. Im lisa amin gulezian. Here in front of this cafe. Abc7 news starts right now. Now news to build a better bay area, from abc 7. Good evening, everyone. Get ready for a sweltering conditions inland tomorrow. Concord reaching 106 degrees. Its going to be 105 in fairfield. Livermore, 104. Santa rosa 100 degrees. Walnut creek, 105. Excessive heat warnings for these counties until 10 00 p. M. Friday. Heat stroke and lease exhaustion possible. Heat advisories for areas shaded in orange, including Santa Cruz County and in effect starting at 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow running until 8 00 p. M. Thursday. Temperatures soaring. There is an increased risk of heat related illnesses. Ill be back to let yo
Six key gop senators. It is interesting a mall gum. The latest hurdle seems to be a spending bill, budget bill. Not that the government lights go out but there is concern about how long do you keep it going latest talk is a twoweek measure . Do you believe that . A twoweek measure. To get us over christmas. I kid you not. We have a a chief congressional correspondent. This will be bigger issue than the tax cut thing, by and large been resolved. We have arguing back and forth today, but what do you make of this . First of all i dont think the tax deal is settled either. Today the Republican Leadership handed out three pages of differences that the house lawmakers have to look at and consider when they go into negotiations with the senate. A lot of them are small differences but those are 30 or so differences they need to work through. As for the spending bill, youre right, that will really take the oxygen out of the room for the next couple weeks. Right now theyre talking about a twowee
Mediation today. Members walked off of the job today they are overworked and underpaid. The walkout is disrupting many businesses. They will be back onto the picket line again tomorrow. Reporter both sides say that they are frustrated and that the strike could have been avoided. It appears that it is up to the city council. They have scheduled a closed session meeting tomorrow afternoon that could put in end to the strike. The signs are up at city hall letting the public know that services are disrupted indefinitely. Some people including this woman tried to use the library a few blocks away. It has shut down every city service in oakland except police and fire. The striking workers picketed outside the building where the mayor was holding a reelection campaign. The Union Representing the wide range of workers says that they only want a oneYear Contract with a 4 increase. We want to get back to work and provide the services that we do tokeland. Reporter the mayor says that there offeri
Wanted to see. Its a terrible feeling. Everything behind our house burned but we are a sitting pretty, it looks like. Late last night, the thomas fire hopped the highway 101 in Ventura County near solimar beach and the fire made it all the way to the shoreline. Smoke from the three fires affecting air quality throughout the area. On your left, the satellite image taken from space shows how bad conditions are right now. A smoke advisory and bad air quality warning is issued for the west and east san fernando valleys and beach areas of the counties. Its hazy all across Southern California. Its something of course we saw with the wine country wildfires wine. The smoke lasted for days. You have to feel for them. The problems in Southern California with those windy conditions, they cant get the choppers up because its dangerous when you have those high winds. So whats the situation there now . Unfortunately, the winds are not going to be calming down for a while until about friday. Its beca
Another plane was getting ready to take off. Cancel takeoff plans. Brick yard, cancel takeoff plans. This morning, the multiple investigations under way. Those stories, plus fallout on russias unprecedented ban from the winter olympics. One lawmakers reaction during a meeting. Im heterosexual, i have a wife. Stop touching me all the time. Leaning to calls for his resignation. And its time. The big announcement for times person of the year, exclusively right here. Wednesday, december 6th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So nice to have us. In a half hour, were going to announce the time person of the. I think we can do it. Lets get right to the top story this morning. The massive wildfires burning out of control in california. Four near los angeles. Destroying homes, leading to new evacuations overnight. Miguel almaguer for us in ventura. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. This is what neig