Our dangerous heat wave arrived today, and its only going to get hotter tomorrow. Were tracking the recordbreaking temperatures. Excessi creating several concerns. One, health. Two, slow business traffic. Three, potential power shutoffs. Raising money for the Boulder Creek volunteer fire department. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im indion lim. Imatcri is on, another scorr tomorrow. Lets get to meteorologist drew tuma. Were tracking even hotter temperatures tomorrow, eric and dion. Right now, a warm night, 79 in the city. 80 san jose. 77 in oakland. The air quality is moderate across the entire region, however, if you have been smelling a pretty strong, new smell of smoke, there is in fre start today, the creek fire. It did send a lot of smoke into the atmosphere. There are no new fires in the bay area tonight, but there is a lot of smoke in our atmosphere from that fire in Fresno County. Future tracker temperatures, get your workout in early by 8
Aspirations to statehood. Also coming up, he could be russias longestserving leader since stalin. Vladimir putin says he will seek reelection in russias march elections. He has been in power for 18 years. We are in moscow tonight to gauge how popular he is today. And californias raging wildfires spread to los angeles. That, as firefighters battle blazes across the south of the state with thousands fleeing their homes. Brent im brent goff. Its good to have you with us. Tonight, u. S. President donald trump has broken with a decadesold pillar of u. S. Policy in the middle east. Today he announced the u. S. Will recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel, making the United States the first and only country in the world to do so. The move has unleashed a firestorm of criticism from the palestinians, who say the u. S. Is no longer a credible broker of peace in the region. We will go to ramallah, jerusalem and washington for more reaction in just a moment. First, the words of the u. S. Pre