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fail. reporter: as washington and the nation pause to commemorate martin luther king, jr., joe biden drew parallels between king s fights for voting rights decades ago i have a dream. reporter: and the battle now playing out on capitol hill. dr. king wasn t just a dreamer of that promise, he was a doer. on this federal holiday that honors him, it s not just enough to praise him, we must commit to his unfinished work. reporter: to democrats, that s passing voting rights bills now in the senate. don t tell us what you believe in, show us with your votes. history will be watching. reporter: the attempt to counter dozens of state laws passed after the 2020 election, which they contend discriminate against minority voters. reporter: republicans stand unified in opposition. the founders didn t have that vision in mind. they didn t want an autocrat to be able to pull a lever in one place and change all the election laws. reporter: senate democrats hope to ....
thank you so much for starting your saturday with us. i m kira klapper. meteorologist vianey arana joins us with your micro climate forecast. girl, you said it d be a sensational saturday. so pretty. i was talking to kira about that. she asked how the day was going to be. beautiful. a lot of sunshine expected. temperatures in the 40s and sta. 52 degrees in san francisco right now. san jose in the 40s. morganhill, low 40s. temperature trend into the afternoon, even if we get a couple clouds rolling through, the temperatures will warm up nicely. into those 70s. the wind speeds in the south bay will be calm, but if you re hanging out in san francisco, expect to see those breezy winds lingering. look at this, now from the west-northwest at 15 miles an hour. if you look at 2:00, we re going to be seeing the wind start to get a little gusty, as well, around the coastline. i ll talk more about the extended outlook in a few minutes. see you in about 15, vianey. thanks. we ....
you. as we take a live look outside in san jose, driving around, noticing tree limbs are down, it s breezy this morning. as we go through the day, the chilly temperatures gradually warming up. we are going to make it to the low 60s. more on the wildfires for southern california. what we are seeing here, coming up in a few minutes. mike, you are tracking the bay bridge closely. yesterday, lane 14 will be closed. i know it s only one lane, a cash lane, but affects the 880 crossing. we had a significant back up until two minutes ago. things lightened up as they open all but lane 14 now. more service for the traffic flowing through the area. look at all these coming off the maze z. look at the map. we have the build with folks coming in. off the nimitz, this might have the biggest effect. lane 14 is in the path. the feeder routes continue to build. there s a closure in san jose. back to you, laura. thank you very much. no doubt, a lot of roads are closed arn closed arou ....
and also the coast and central bays where you may notice in the sky the particulars that the particulate mat they re does accumulate towards the ground. your temperatures today ranging from 30s and 40s through 7:00. as we get towards the noon hour, wow, we are out of the 50s into the low 60s. hazy afternoon sunshine, it will be another day of numbers 5 to 10 degrees above average. by 7:00, the numbers will dip considerably. as we look in the next seven days for a chance of rain, there isn t any but we can look beyond that and i ll have that for you in hi accuweather seven-day forecast. thank you. this morning a decades-old cold case involving a north bay kidnapping is one step closer to being solved. a suspect in the case was flown into san francisco early this morning. it s a story you ll see only on abc7 news. that suspect is accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl, a hillsboro girl, back in 1995. and hiding from authorities for 22 years. abc7 news reporter lonni ....
charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. that s the amount of people who died in the fire last year. the preliminary hearing has taken over a week. abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley has more. reporter: judge jeffrey horner echoed witness testimony calling the ghost ship a death trap. he rolled the case over to trial saying both defendants are responsible for what happened on that night and are responsible for the deaths of 36 individuals, end quote. the final witness for the prosecution testified they had received no complaints about the ghost ship that would have warranted a fire inspection prior to the fire. he stated there were no alarms, spring lers or illuminated exit signs. the defendants disagreed. that the premises were beautiful and orderly and he is threatic and clean and therefore not a death trap. we are confident we can prevail with a jury. we never expected to prevail at this hearing. it s too politically charged of a case. reporter: in ....