More than 450 cases of lung illness associated with using ecigarettes in 33 states and the u. S. Virgin islands. San franciscos juul labs, manufacturing of popular vaping products, put out this statement today. Quote, we strongly agree with the need for aggressive categorywide action on flavored products. We will fully comply with the final fda policy when effective. President trump says the new guidelines will be ready in a couple weeks. The fda says manufacturers would be given a 30day grace period after that to implement them. In the newsroom, eric thomas, abc 7 news. Thank you. We have breaking news to tell you about now. The Supreme Court is allowing nation wide enforcement of a new Trump Administration rule that puts strong limitations on immigrants seeking asylum in the united states. The rule denies asylum to anyone who passes through another country on the way to the u. S. Impacting most central americans, asian and africans who travel through the southern border. The order ov
Announcer news to build a better bay area. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning, everyone, it is sunday august 18th. We are starting our morning with quick look at our forecast. Heres meteorologist lisa argen, good morning. Good morning to you. We have had a combination of clear areas. Now the fog is beginning to move back in. Heres live doppler 7. Check out santa cruz. It was plain old cloudy a while ago. With the mist and drizzle it looks cool out there. Inn sfra, sun, 64. 67 in oakland, partly cloudy. We are 0 in gilroy, low 60s in san jose. The golden gate, yep you are beginning to see an beyond shore flow. We will have a cool day. Right now it is in the upper 50s for much of the north bay. Napa at 61. Petaluma at 61. Mid 60s in the inland valleys. Heres san jose. The rest of the day today featuring more sun. The committeesal clouds. Low to mid 70s around noontime around the bay and inland. The coolest day today out of the next seven. Then we will talk about the warming trend, where
In that area. How many structures are in danger at this point . The area evacuated is around 650 homes. There are other communities along that corridor about 12,000 residents live in that area. That particular association has about 650 homes and the one to the northwest of it is about the same number of it residents there. Theyre concerned about any of those residents and communities that are uphill from that area. Its very steep and so if you, as you can see, many of those homes its so steep one home can look over the top of the home in front of it and could be able to see the lake so they all have a lake view. Very steep terrain. Areas that are not developed, the last fire through that mountain that was in 1961 i believe and so just decades and decades an of fuel loading since then and theres tremendous potential for fire in that area. Its the highest risk in our county. It has been for many years even before the past fires weve been experienced. This is identified as one of the high
Something that we can put this person in a box. Christmas hill park, the site res ofndhrotinis b still, that has not stop people from dropping by the site, some to leave flowers and teddy bears. This group dropped off cookies and had a simple message. Thank you so much. Thats nice of you. Can i get a hug. What was your message . Thank you for keeping us safe. Reporter why did you feel the need to bring the family here today . Just to show our support to not just the local Law Enforcement but for everybody. Reporter some vendors have been able to pick up their vehicles. Dd mcdonald and kriste had a booth selling spiritual art and crystals. Theyve returned despite knowing they cant pick up belongings yet. Theyre just things at this point. You know . Its not whats important. Were here. I think the first couple days youre in shock and then yesterday it kind of really hit me. But no room for anger because thats what got us here. Those two women also dropped off cookies. They told me they in
But the congressmans decision could mark the start of a turning point moment. Will other candidates follow suit . Youre seeing the Second Quarter fundraising numbers coming in, which are demonstrating the strength and viability of some campaigns. Yes, i think we are getting into the time when the field will dwindle substantially. Reporter there is still one new face that could emerge, bay area Billionaire Tom Steyer is reportedly close to jumping in the race despite publicly announcing he wouldnt run in january. We asked swalwell today if if he has any advice for the potential incoming candidate. Its rough out there. Reporter and steyer also said excuse me. Swalwell said he wishes steyer well, but swalwell says he really has no regrets about how he ran his campaign. We asked him why he thinks he struggled to breakthrough. He said he thinks its because he was up against such high profile candidates. Bernie sanders, joe biden, senator kamala harris, people with really high name recogniti