Time it was our time. I had to go to the bed in the middle of all of this. We will have to change that somehow. Here is a look at whats going on, maybe we can get some thunderstorms in the morning, thats the case tomorrow. Right now its pretty quiet on live doppler 7. 62 to 67 is a little bit cooler this morning, a little cooler at noon, 74 to 81, 60s at the coast, low to mid 80s elsewhere. Temperatures pulling back from those highs we had over the weekend, 65 to 77. Notice whats going to happen, look at this right here, yeah, 7 00 it starts again and it will get even greater during the overnight hours, i will show you that coming up. Good morning, so far so good on the roads this morning, no major issues, in fact, we are wide open sit at this t the bay bridge toll plaza. Southbound 680, six 24 another 8 and 44 minutes 580 tracy to dublin. Next traffic update coming up right around 5 10. It was a show in the sky overnight. Did you see some of this where you live . The National WeatherServices Says it detected about a thousand glound to lightning strikes as of 10 00 last night. They caused Power Outages across the bay area. Pg e crews still working to get the power back for 1,800 customers, more than half in San Francisco and on the peninsula. Develop news this morning, at least 11 total deaths across three states now to blame from Hurricane Irma. Irma finally falling apart this morning. It has been downgraded to a post tropical cyclone, but remnants are expected to bring heavy rain today from the carolinas to kentucky. A tornado watch across parts of georgias coast has been canceled. Crews are working to restore power to millions of customers. It went through their kitchens their living rooms. These people have restored their houses three times in three years and thats devastating. Right now im at the mercy of when the water goes down where we can get out of here. The Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise lines plan to resume sailing out of florida today after a fourday hiatus. Mike nicco tracking irma as it slowly loses strength, he is at the weather desk with a quick update on irma as well as weather here in the bay area. Hi, mike. Jessica, hi, everybody. Great news, irma continues to unwind as jessica mentioned, it is a tropical depression now and its got winds of around 35 Miles Per Hour but you can see on the radar there that its bringing more rain but its lighter intensity to more areas from the ohio river valley all the way down into the Mississippi River valley to the carolinas to the outer banks there of North Carolina. Even some thunderstorms over the florida peninsula. Lets see where the track is going to go and look at the rain shield thats going to be very broken. So the winds are less of an issue, the rain is less of an issue, in fact, there is no flash flood watches, no real wind advisories expect for gusty winds through tennessee for the better part of today but i dont expect a lot of damage. Cleanup just beginning with irma, but the country still dealing with harvey. Happens tonight dozens of celebrities will be part of a special telethon to benefit those affected by hurricane harvey. George clooney, jamie foxx, beyonce, oprah, Reese Witherspoon just a few of the many celebrities that are expected to take part. The telethon will raise money for thousands of people in texas who were displaced and countless others who have lost their home because of the storm and continued flooding. You can watch the hand in hand benefit at 8 00 tonight right here on abc 7. Hopefully that will do a lot of good. A whole lot of hype this morning. Apple will unveil the iphone in its first ever event at steve jobs theater on its new campus. Matt keller is live at that new campus in cupertino. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning. Welcome to the spaceship, i dont know whats a bigger deal here that were actually on the campus of apples new headquarters and they let the media in or the fact they will be announcing the new iphone in this building right here, this is the steve jobs theater, this is the theater they will be doing the announcement in. Its tough to tell but its actually the theater seats are underneath here so its going to be a big deal later today when they make the announcement for the new iphone. That announcement is expected later this morning. Tech experts have nicknamed it the ten Year Anniversary model, a hefty price tag of a thousand dollars, thats twice as much as the original iphone. What kind of features can you expect . You can expect a dramatic redesign, the display will extend to all edges of the device, latest iphone is also epected to have a better camera and Wireless Charging capacity and may include facial Recognition Technology for unlocking the phone. Todays event starts here at 10 00 a. M. Reporting live in cupertino, matt keller, abc 7 news. My iphone already feeling like yesterdays news. Thank you so much. We are going to stay on top of todays apple announcement if you want to know all the latest information we will send it straight to your phone if you download the free abc 7 news app. Developing news in antioch, could an arsonist be on the loose . This is one of seven fires authorities here you see behind me theyre calling it suspicious and now they need your help. Katie utehs has a look at the damage and the investigation. I heard like crackling and like a loud noises so i looked out our balcony window and i just saw a huge fire and i told the whole family and ran out of the house as fast as we can. Reporter shane davis shot video as his father used a garden hose to spray the fire outside the Indonesian Baptist Church in antioch. I dont know why they would do that. What harm could a church do them. Reporter all of the fires are with an three mile radius. We do believe that there is something to that and that there may be somebody running around setting a bunch of fires. Happened out of nowhere. Reporter this man recorded video of the vegetation fire that threatened his home. He says firefighters were already near somerset place because of another fire. Made it right in time because this tree here was almost going to tip over, a whole bunch of branches fell on the roof. By the time they got here it was like just touches the house. Reporter nobody has been injured. The fires only have proximity and time frame in common. The thing that we dont really know yet is whether or not they are all related to one another. Reporter Contra Costa County fire investigators are asking any potential witnesses to come forward. In antioch, katie utehs. We have new developments, Uc Berkeley Police will investigate the viral video you may have seen, it was captured after saturdays football game. The video shows an officer citing a hotdog vendor for selling food without a permit and confiscating his cash. Police issued warnings to three outer unlicensed vendors at that game. It gained lots of attention for people who believe the hotdog man was unfairly targeted. Vendor tells abc 7 news that he was shocked when the officer took his money. Translator to be quite honest with you i want to get my permit and get my business going. Do things right and make it official so i dont find myself in that situation again. Abc 7 news spoke with Police Officers off camera and specifically the one involved urges the public to consider the full context of the situation and says he only took the cash as evidence to support the citation. Developing news this morning, an east bay congressman says he had no idea fraught lent contributions were made to his campaign. The sf gate reports representative eric swal we will accepted illegal donations in 2012 and 2013. The money now will be donated to dou charity. They said they did not know about the fraudulent contributions. Prosecutors say tong used others to make donations on his behalf to bypass Campaign Contribution limits. Now your accuweather forecast. A threat of thunderstorms lingering in the forecast again today and tomorrow. You see lightning you count. If you hear thunder in less than 30 seconds you need to seek shelter. You also need to wait 30 minutes after that last bolt of lightning to head outside just to be safe. So we appreciate all the video you sent us, but we want to make sure everybody is safe when they are out watching Mother Nature put on a show again tonight and tomorrow. Lets talk about whats going on. If youre heading outside right now we have low to mid 70s in brentwood, antioch, pittsburgh, mt. Diablo, up in the hills. Out towards liver more, 64 san ramone, danville, walnut creek, lafayette 69, cooler around liver more at 66 degrees. 70 in san jose right now, 68 in mountain view, 69 in San Francisco, pacifica and san carlos 66, napa and santa rosa at 61 degrees. Here is whats going to happen around the state today. Not quite as active as yesterday until we get to the afternoon hours and see those storms erupt across all of our Higher Elevations whether its the grapevine, the sierra and heading up towards the oregon border and even on top of us late this afternoon, into the evening and overnight hours we will have our better chance. San jose 400 of an inch of rain. 60s, 7. 0s and 80s tomorrow and 60s and 70s for the most part thursday. We will take a look at the quieter weekend forecast coming up next. Quiet on the roads this morning. I will tell you about a future pro a j ekt that starts tonight. They will be working on cleaning one of the bores for the caldecott tunnel. Bore number 4 will be closed in the overnight Hours Tuesday through thursday in week, 9 30 until 4 30 a. M. Bore 3 will still be open. We are looking at some fairly light volumes typically during those hours. I dont think its going to slow you down that much just a heads up over the next few evenings. A quick check outside here is a live look at the san matteo bridge. Today we are moving along fine between foster city and the hayward stretch looking in the green at just about 20 minutes for that commute. We will take a look at drive times coming up at 5 20. 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Flooded cars can look great, run perfectly for the short term but the longterm and probably sooner than later those cars will break down because theyre literally rotting from the inside out. We will tell you exactly how to spot one of these cars before you buy it coming up at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look im david kerley, abc news, washington. Now a live desk update from abc 7 mornings. New from our live desk this morning residents beginning to return to south florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma. New video here coming in of people at a checkpoint in florida city just south of miami. Authorities are allowing some residents to return home to survey damage left behind. High winds and storm surges destroyed homes and left millions without power. Several major airports in florida that stopped passenger operations due to irma will begin some limited Service Starting today. It is 5 16. You are about to see a Small Plane Crash caught on camera in connecticut. We want to let you know that the pilot only suffered minor injuries, he is expected to be okay. A witness captured the video of the cessna yesterday morning short therefore after it clipped the top of several trees, flips and crashes there. The pilot is an 81yearold man, he was rushed to a nearby hospital. No word on why he came in so low. There was a small fuel leak in the parking lot where he crashed, no one else was hurt. Developing news this morning involving senator cruz and not for anything good. He or whoever had access to his twitter account liked a porn video late last night, it was a 2 20 clip from reality kings. According to Huffington Post cruzs office has not yet responded to a request for comment. The like disappeared early this morning. Hillary clintons book comes out today, it is titled what happened and it provides her perspective on last year election and why she lost. Clinton will speak at opera plaza on october 6th and visit uc davis a few days later. She is also expected to appear on the view starting tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. The new it movie is bigger than what we first thought. Initially it was reported that the movie raked in 117 million during its weekend debut last weekend. It turns out it made 123 million. So that is the third best debut of the year behind beauty and the beast and yardians of the galaxy volume 2. Keep in mind it raked in all of that money from 175 florida theaters that were closed due to Hurricane Irma. A lot of people i know talk about this film. Have you seen it . Have not seen it. Surprised that it did so well. Im not a fan of scary movies, either. Lets get over to meteorologist mike nicco. No scary weather i hope, mike. No not at all. Does thunder scare you, lightning . Just my dog. Thats usual. Its more the pressure i think that affects the dogs, when thunderstorms come in the pressure drops and that affects their ears and then they get a little it hurts them so they get a little wild. Here is a look at walnut creek just to your South Danville had. 01 of an inch and that was it for our east bay networks. Did get to see some of the lightning show not like the peninsula and north bay. More sun today, that will help reenergize the atmosphere thats kind of stable right now. That will allow storms to develop with our best chance of thunder during the overnight hours through tomorrow morning and cool to seasonal highs will hope. We have the area of low pressure formerly of irma and our area of low pressure and thats pretty much the only two games across the entire lower 48. Tuesday morning pretty quiet, you will notice more sunshine today, storms will develop in the sierra during the afternoon hours, you will probably be able to see the tops of those thunderstorms staeshl if you are up in some of the hills there and can look that farther distance. You saw a few showers around 5 00 but really 11 30 on through tomorrows morning commute you can see the expansion of the chance of thunderstorms as it moves through there. All the way through the morning commute at 9 00 and then it starts to taper down to just an isolated chance by noon and then that chance really starts to fall apart as we head into wednesday evening as the area of low pressure responsible for this moves off to the east. So lets talk temperatures. Mid 80s down in the south bay today as you head up the peninsula we will have upper 70s to mid 80s, mid 70s along the coast and downtown San Francisco. Up in the north bay low to mid 80s, along the east bay shore upper 70s to mid 80s. Inland temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s. Away from our inland neighborhoods most of us a little bit warmer than we should be. Tomorrow a final chance and you can see cooler and the humidity escapes us on thursday, temperatures return back to average friday and hang that way trough the weekend. Lets find out about maybe an average commute this morning. So far it really is looking that way. We havent had any major issues, just one new pretty minor just one new pretty minor trouble spot bridge, there are bins blocking several lanes. So chp is in route. Use caution through that area. San jose 101 and 880 slowly starting to fill in. The northbound side, traffic coming towards us there, but no major problems in the south bay and a quieter morning. Yesterday we had those wind gusts and a lot of dark intersections as well. Today we are not seeing that. Southbound 101 santa rosa to petaluma 14 minutes. 580 at 14 and northbound 101 you are also wide open at 12 minutes. We are okay with the quiet, right, alexis . Happening today federal investigators are meeting to determine the likely cause of a crash that killed a tesla driver last year. Joshua brown was using the cars autopilot feature when his model s plowed into a truck in florida in may of 2016 and you are looking at video here that brown posted on social media after buying his tesla. The ntsb will talk about the crash today. The meeting comes on the same day the n