News to build a better bay area, this is abc 7 mornings. Now at 5 00 a. M. A busy night for favorites. Illegal fireworks setting off dozens of fires. Good morning on this friday, july 5th. More than seven minutes away from your accuweather forecast. My fiery temper by being woken up by fireworks add to that . My neighbors were having fun, good for them. We have a bit of a breeze out there. The rest of us 10 or less. You can see the cloud cover hanging around. It will move back to the coast the same rate as yesterday. When it does reveal the sunsh e sunshine, a little warmer air mass is sitting on top of us. We are starting off the same. Middle to upper 50s. Definitely warmer inland. 75 to 86. More of us will need air conditioners. Great evening on tap. Sorry about that fourth of july graphic. My sisters birthday. The fireworks are for my sister. That is okay. Looks like it by judging at the volume. Mission boulevard. The last they told us all lanes were blocked. We had an suv blocking the two middle lanes. They had to shut down all of the lanes. Hopefully that is in the clearing stages. We are looking at very light volumes there. Unfortunately we had a serious situation overnight. A vehicle plummeted 150 feet and landed on its roof. It happened just before midnight and one woman was able to escape. Taken to the hospital but the driver tied. More earthquakes in the Mojave Desert after that big earthquake was felt yesterday. There have been at least a dozen in and around the town of ridgecrest overnight. 5. 4 magnitude hitting in just the last hour. Live now with the aftermath. Good morning, mona. Good morning natasha and reggie. Experts warned of this is aing with an earthquake of this magnitude it will be common to see aftershocks but there was a chance it was just a foreshock and a greater quake is yet to come. This morning california under a state of emergency after a massive 6. 4 earthquake shook the southern half of the state. We earthquake mode. The largest to hit the region in two decades. We lost everything i have. I have no tvs or dressers. Look at this video capturing a panicked employee running for safety with the shaking 10 30 a. M. Local time. Content on store shelves knocked to the floor and this home knocked off of the foundation. It was centered near ridgecrest and followed by at least 100 after shocks. The rattle could be felt from Northern California down to mexico. At the epicenter officials responding to reports of fires, downed power lines and property damage. Patients from a hospital were evacuated after suffering minor shaking. It was described as a strikeslip quake meaning two quakes along the fault are moving parallel but in opposite directions and a major message from jones warning of more after shocks to come. There is a 1 in 20 chance this location will have an even bigger earthquake in the next few days. Jones said there is at least two seismic faults involved but the san andreas was not one of them. If you need a reminder of what to do in an earthquake, protect yourself. Drop, cover, hold on when you feel the shaking. Drop on to your hands and knees and get under a sturdy table if there is one. Get down near an interior wall. Hold on to your head and neck until the shaking stops. If you are sleeping when an earthquake happens, stay there and protect your head with a pillow and should have shoes or slippers by your bed. When the shaking stops and you get out of bed the feet are protected in case there is broken glass or loose items. Outside, move away from buildings. Being next to exterior walls of a building is dangerous. Windows. Architectual accents are the first to fall, move away from power lines, trees, signs, vehicles. If you are driving, pullover if you can. Stop your car and set the parking brake. Try to avoid overpasses, bridges and power lines. If a power line does fall on to your car, stay inside until a First Responder can get to you. You will find all of the information and more online by going to abc 7 news. All right. It is 5 06. Overnight at least 17 people went to the hospital aft july f. It started with a fight near the navy pier and three people were stabbed. Others panicked and tried to run away from the scene. At least 14 people were trampled. Police believe a stampede started when someone yelled gun or shots fired. No arrests have been made. Illegal fireworks exploding all around the bay area. In oakland it startled their neighbors and kept police pretty busy. Reporter from the oakland hills, the pops, bangs and booms are nonstop. Those are the sounds of illegal fireworks as well as gunfire ringing out from oakland the fourth of july. Its really. Hear gnoes. Kind of like fireworks i guess. Gunshots. This woman will keep her dog inside all night because of the commotion. I am never happen my kittys are freaked out. For the people that had ptsd and experience of gun violence and war i think it can be hard. Oakland police are out in force. The biggest concern for the night would be from getting injured. People getting shot from the celebratory gunfire. Abc 7 news was there on east 17th street as officers raided a home, found illegal fireworks, drugs and a high powered rifle. They are brought to designated drop off areas where the Fire Department will store them and later dispose of them. Taking them to designated area this year allows officers to drop them off and get back on the streets quickly. Firefighters had a busy night dealing with fires after responding to 37 fires over a sixhour period and they confirmed fireworks sparked at least five of those. They say the number is likely higher than that. This is video from a fire in pittsburgh at east 3rd and harbor streets. Not a great night for the firefighters. As much as we try to warn everybody. Mid to upper 50s. Mount diablo, 70. The warmer air sitting above the marine layer ready to come down when the marine layer mixes out by 11 00 or noon. 49 in santa rosa. Napa, 57 degrees right now. 60 in oakland. 55 in San Francisco. And in santa clara. Going to the pool today. Slightly warmer. It will feel refreshing. Have the sun screen. Breezy at the beaches. We have a Small Craft Advisory. The north bay, sunshine and 70 at 11 00. We will top out around 80s. In the east bay clouds linger through 9 00. About 64 with sunshine at 7 00. We are stuck in the 50s. About 9 00. Middle to upper 60s with sunny skies this afternoon. Next, traffic right now. There is not too much of it here. We are looking at a lot of the green on the traffic map. 7 before santa clara street. We had a solo vehicle crash in the left lane. That has cleared there the board. We never see delays from that. Drive times, havent been able to find any that are not green. 6 00. 8 00 drive to highway 13. Increasing slightly with a few more folks out than we saw yesterday. Westbound 580 pat 25 minutes. A big change of San Francisco international that could reduce traffic jams at the airport, or at least they hope so. Additional parking lot for drive share drivers will finally be opening. Itits crepe dayday for a Family Traditionys. We started about 22 minutes ago and now we can continue that tradition at home with free dennys delivery. See you at dennys. Com joining us. Neighbors in the south bay said they saw kids playing with fire works and a fire started in East San Jose destroying trees and came very close to some homes on luke court. Amazingly nobody was hurt. You are looking the flames that kept firefighters busy overnight after responding to 37 fires in a sixhour stretch. Dozens of in the Mojave Desert. 5. 4 magnitude one occurring near the town of ridgecrest. Weather wise, number four. Temperatures in a few degrees of average from the 60s at the coast or a few 90s inland. San francisco shoppers could begin paying more for shopping bags next year. A panel backed increasing the fee from a dime to a quarter. We are looking at Holiday Light volumes once again. Yesterday was the fourth of july. A te tod off as well. Very light at the bay bridge toll plaza. Cheesecake factory offering free slices of the oreo cheesecake during this Holiday Weekend. But you have to spend the offer ends on sunday. It does look delicious. Does. Developing news in the bahammas. Seven americans were killed in a Helicopter Crash yesterday afternoon as it was flying to fort lauderdale. One of the victim was 60yearold coal mining billionaire, chris cline. The governor where he lives tweeted condolences about the death. His daughter was also a victim. We dont know yet what caused the crash. Firefighters rush to put out at least three fires. At least two brush fires started along highway a garage fire spread to dry grass at the same time. I have seen smoke. It is the whole back hill where all of that is. Burned 35 acres. Firefighters worked fast. The effort to impeach President Trump is bearing fruit so it speaks. The critics of the president had a giant balloon with an m on it. His campaign of disinformation and confusion is beating people down. So our attempt by inflating the giant m peach is lets win the thing and have humor. I that the impeh pehment. She hopes to pump air into the effort. Yeah. Some directv customers growing frustrated over blacked out local news channels. 127 channels in the u. S. Went dark over a failed business deal. Now at t and nextstar are blaming each other. At t said they offered more money to keep abc, nbc, fox available. Nextstar said they offered at t an extension to keep the channels up but at t dropped amazon is celebrating a milestone. It is now the largest retailer in the world and bezos is the richest man on earth. They sell everything from Running Shoes to gourmet hot sauce. A retail analyst said it is an ecosystem. You wake up with an alarm and you go to bed telling alexa to turn off the life. Remember when they just sold books . Whats a book . Hey guys. Lets talk about what is going on with your weather. Highlights coming up already to give you an idea of what to expect. I want to show you the beautiful view. Colors of the rainbow coming up. Back across the valley. Mount diablo looking very nice in the silhouette. Weekend, it will be the warmest saturday and our coolest would be sunday. Lets look at the cloud cover. A typical summer day, pby noon clouds are back to the coast. Now, they will not have much of an effect o82 ajo in santa cruz today. 73 to 78. Mid60s along the coast. We will have more clouds than we will push 70 in south San Francisco. 79. Cool spottings ings in the in e 72 in oakland. 76 in hayward. Upper 80s to lower 90s. Looks like we might need the air conditioner. We are going to warm the air mass a little. Hold steady below average monday and back closer to average tuesday, wednesday, thursday. Going to take you back to the fremont area. We are awaiting for updated information from chp. Solo vehicle crash. I think it is clear now. Very late volumes after the fourth of july. So Service Today for the extended fourth of july holiday. Thank you. Unexpected drama at wimbledon and 15yearold cori gauff right in the middle of it. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, controversy. A star is born. 15yearold cori gauff has been the darling of wimbledon, a cinderella of serves who took out Venus Williams earlier in the week. It is a dream debut for the 15yearold. Is now rocketing towards the third round. I was not thinking about venus. I was just playing my game. This morning she is stuck in the middle of an awkward situation. Jay clark admitteding he dumped his doubles partner to play with coco instead. She asked me to play. I made a decision to play. Probably the biggest name in the tournament. She is a really cool kid. Coming up, we will have more on doubles gate with your gma first look. Why are we talking about his controversy of dropping the partner of her controversy of asking in the first place . I dont know. I dont understand tennis etiquette. Like dumping your date before prom. It happens. The bay area shows the fourth of july spirit. How firefighters got a handle on this explosion. I ylowes does it right too with july 4th savingsbest. To get you started. Whatever you need to get your yard in shape. Do it right for less. Start with lowes. All right. Lets take a look at the coast in case you want to head there. Partly sunny, cool and breezy. Middle 60s. Tomorrow it is going to be a little bit warmer, middle to upper 60s. 72 in santa cruz. Water, 53. It will be the coolest sunday. Mostly cloudy with temperatures in the lower to middle shipping containers loaded with fireworks in South Carolina suddenly went off yesterday morning. Firefighters had to douse the flames as rockets exploded and sparklers was going off. A local store was stocking up for the holiday. People across the bay area got into the fourth of july spirit. This is in san joses historic rose garden neighborhood celebrating their 12th rose white and blue parade. To the north bay where bands played traditional american tunes marching through the streets of sausalito. A picnic with live music and dance. We will be back with another full 90 minutes of news including the danger of illegal fireworks. Burned trees, a destroyed car all because of illegal fireworks. We will explain. A new plan to raise the news to build a better bay area, this is abc 7 mornings. Now at 5 30, look at this. Illegal fireworks launched for the fourth of july sparked a massive fire overnight. More after shocks following the magnitude 6. 4 earthquake in kern county. People are still hitting the slopes for the fourth of july weekend. It is a crazy contrast. Friday, july 5th. Never more than seven minutes away from your accuforecast. You get sun burned in places you are not used to be sun at t cover. Typical summer pattern that you can see. A compressed marine layer and its letting go of a bit of moisture along the coast. The temperature will be steady in the upper 50s and 60s at the coach. 78. A little warmer. 75 to 86. Nice evening on tap. 70 to 76 at 7 00. How about the commute. Not much of one today as you would expect. I think we are the only ones heading in to work. Northbound 680 we had a crash that was blocking all lanes. We got confirmation from chp we have been in the green for a while. That was in the clearing stages much earlier. 12 minute drive across the san mateo bridge. Illegal fireworks sparking dozens of fires over the area. That is where our fire burned so close to home. That is right. We are in East San Jose. Fires got calls for trees caught on fire. These are those trees. The fire spread to the car and you can see how intense the fire was. Lets show you video from a few hours ago. Witnesses say that kids had a fire cracker that exploded and caught a tree on fire and spread to the other trees. You can see how quickly and high the fire burned and so close to the homes. One resident said he smelled the smoke inside the house and ran outside just to see his neighborhood on fire. I was worried. One neighborhood went door to door to warn the residents to get out. Given the fire was burning so close to the roofs of the home, residents are lucky that no house caught on fire. Again, this had is the car that was damaged by the illegal fireworks. The street is littered with debris but for so repos injurieslad eveons save te to the most dedicated house sitter on the planet. The best ever . Doing too much. More than a dozen after shocks near the town of ridgecrest. Here is a look at the reactions that we gathered from social media. Got here. We are having an earthquake right now. There is the crack, right here. We had a real giant shocker. Now the center of the quake hit near ridgecrest in kern county. The u. S. Sent out a warning that the earthquake was about to hit but many in l. A. Wondered why they didnt get an alert through the citys new app the alerts are only sent if the shaking in l. A. Will be above a magnitude five. It is something we have to look in to as to whether or not the threshold should be lowered or adjusted. Great reminder for us to be prepared for the big one. Local police and firefighters are ready to respond but life threatening emergencies will keep them busy. It is a good idea to assemble an emergency kit of your own. Have a plan with your family, whether you are living in or visiting San Francisco. Have a kit with you whether you live here or home or in your car. Okay. Moments after the earthquake hit. Enable push alerts. The Sonoma CountySheriffs Department is investigating an officer involved shooting. Police say that he assaulted officers before a deputy opened fire. The suspect and victims were take tone hospitals and continues were not released. New developments in San Francisco. A city panel is backing a plan to increase the fee you will pay for shopping bags at stores. Right now it cost 10 cents. Supervisor brown wants to raise the feet to 25 cents. The San FranciscoSmall BusinessCommission Voted to support the increase. If it is approved you will pay more for shopping bags in july of next year. It rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports. It did everything it had to do. Did you catch that . Were airports around during the American Revolution . President trumps strange statement while giving the fourth of july speech. This is what is happening on your friday of your fourth of july weekend. Looks a little different than last night with the cloud cover out there. 51 in pacifica. Rest of us in the middle 50s. Near 60 in oakland. Hayward. Fremont. Look at santa rosa, about 45 degrees. This is a look at what is going on. Running in the middle to upper 50s. We have a Small Craft Advisory north of the bay bridge if you want to get out there and have fun this afternoon. Sunshine. Middle to upper 80s during the afternoon hours. Partly cloudy. Sunshine. Hanging ought around 80. Falling back to 72. That is what happens when you are woken up several times in the middle of your rem sleep. I guess i am feeling that too. Yeah. I dont think anybody slept too well. Yesterday i dont think we saw any yellow or red. Very short stretch, maybe a half mile or so for each of those slow downs. No metering lights yet. We hope to make it the entire commute without flipping those on. Walnut creek to dublin, just 13 minutes. 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