Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Irma is one of the most powerful Atlantic Hurricanes ever. Its 1 s 185mileanhour winds wreaked havoc in the caribbeans. One death was on the small island of barba. About 90 of buildings and cars there have been destroyed. Irma is unleashing winds and rain on puerto rico and could make landfall in florida this weekend. Cars are lined up on the highways as people heed the warnings to get out. This is a much stronger storm that we have anticipated. Its stronger than what we experienced in the past, and its better to be safe than sorry. Florida has begun activating its National Guard with 7,000 members being told to report for duty on friday. Tomorrow, 100 pg e employees are scheduled to leave the bay area to restore power to people impacted by Hurricane Irma. We have Live Team Coverage for you. Leeann melendez is at sfo where some flight to florida will likely be canceled. But first, lets get to Spencer Christian with where the storm is now. Reporter heres a look at this powerful and dangerous hurricane, irma, category 5, winds at 185 Miles Per Hour with gusts over 225 Miles Per Hour. The storm has pounded islands in the caribbean like st. Martin, the virgin islands. Its moving north of puerto rico. If it stays on this track over the next two days, it will expect to move righover the turks and caicos islands. By saturday, hitting northern cuba and turning northward forwards miami and the east coast of florida. If it stays on that path, its expected to continue up on monday as a category 3 hurricane, along the georgia coastline, hitting Population Centers psy s like savannah. This is going to be a devastating storm if it stays on this track for much of the southeastern u. S. And there is another hurricane, hurricane jose, a category 1 storm, but could follow a similar path. Dan . Spencer, thank you very much. Florida farmers are bracing for the storm, as well. Today, orange concentrate futures for november delivery rose to their highest point in four months. About 1. 47 per pound. Florida is the second largest producer in the world behind brazil. Leeann melendez continues our coverage from sfo. Youve been talking to people flying in from south florida about what theyve seen there. Reporter thats right. This morning we are hearing of cancellations to and from florida for the weekend. The hurricane is expected as we heard to hit florida late sunday and its only wednesday now. You will hear in just a bit some of the people saying that people there are really preparing, and so have the airlines. Shirl shirley new el left ft. Lauderdale and described the chaos. All the water is sold out. Supermarkets dont really have any food for the families. And schools are closed thursday and friday. The tolls were lifted by the governor. Reporter after what happened in houston, floridas governor rick scott wasted no time suspending tolls across the state to help move traffic. People in other parts of south florida are boarding up windows and protecting their homes. Before leaving tampa, maria rivero did what she could to prepare. Sandbags as much as i could. We took everything from outside, all the valuable s are put away staff. Were concerned with our neighbors. We are hoping it makes that right turn and goes out to sea. Reporter even the airlines have been proactive, already canceling flights and offering passengers a chance to rebook free of charge. Some have added cheap flights to help with the evacuation. Look at what your airline is doing, look at what theyre offering. Were seeing airlines on websites giving passengers the opportunity to change their flights without having to pay any penalties. Reporter she wasnt necessarily happy to leave her parents behind in ft. Lauderdale. They werent able to leave because of work, so its scary, because they say its going to be worse than andrew. Reporter hurricane andrew devastated the area 25 years ago. Leeann melendez, abc7 news. Now to the recovery from harvey. Lawmakers in washington approved a 7. 9 billion relief package. G President Trump split with the gop and sided with the democrats. This is a positive step forward. It will work to quickly provide aid to those hurt fwi harvey. Houston officials are still doing damage assessments and dont have estimates of what percent of the city was flooded by harvey. Now to the latest developments on daca. Barack obamas executive action that protects 800,000 immigrants from deportation. After Donald Trumps decision to end the program was announced yesterday, the big question is whats next . Heres a look at the advice local lawyers are giving to people facing a very uncertain future. Reporter dan, the city of san jose and santa chaira county against the trump administration. As f dreamers, theyre hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. Jessica torres parents brought her to the u. S. Illegally when she was 3. The san jose state graduate is working towards becoming an immigration attorney to help others. But with daca ending my attorney told me i have to marry a u. S. Citizen if i wanted to get a green card. So thats my only option. Reporter shes one of many dreamers that contacted an immigration attorney to find out her options. Attorney gabriel jack is reminding students to reapply by october 5. So they give you a month to extend it for two years. These are just temporary measures that somebody can take to try to keep their status legal for a little longer. Reporter today, 15 states and the district of columbia filed a lawsuit to block the president s plan to end daca. Californias attorney general announced he will sue separately. Santa Clara University law professor says the states will likely argue rescinding daca is unconstitutional. They may also site prejudice as a reason. People challenging daca might point to statements by the president in the past about how he views mexicans or immigrants generally. Reporter he says it will be a challenge for those fighting the federal government. Im concerned about my job, like whats going to happen with my job, my everything i worked so hard for. Reporter attorneys are telling dreamer deportations are not going to happen overnight. With 800,000 Daca Recipients in the u. S. , its an enormous undertaking. Meantime, california senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced a private bill that will be considered later this month to help the parents who were deported to mexico from oakland last month. We followed this story closely. Maria sanchez and her husband had lived in the u. S. For more than 20 years before being told to leave. Maria was a nurse at highland hospital. The bill would allow them to return to the u. S. With green cards. It would also dpragrant their ot daughter a green card. The youngest member of Charles Mansons family has been granted parole. She was just 19 when she helped kill two people in 1969. Shes appeared before a parole board today for the 21st time. Last year, a panel granted her parole but the governor overruled it. The governor has 120 days to review the decision. In her more than 40 years in prison, shes earned multiple College Degrees and is considered a model prisoner. A San Francisco supervisor says the citys response to the record breaking heat wave last week was too slow and inadequate and he wants to know why. Vic lee is live at city hall with that story. Vic . Reporter well, those concerns coming from the supervisor who sits on a Fact Finding Committee of the supervisors, which is holding a hearing on the citys response. That hearing, two weeks from now here at city hall. Everyone knew it. It was going to be hot. Really hot. The Weather Service warned that on friday, it could break records and that the heat wave would continue saturday. The reality is San Francisco was caught flat footed. The Emergency Operations center was not activated until friday night, long after we had reached unprecedented temperatures. Reporter aaron peskin and other members of the Committee Want answers. Among them, why information about the citys cooling centers didnt go out to the public until friday night. 911 dispatchers received more than 800 calls each of the two days. On an average day, they get about 200 calls. He says that overwhelmed the response of ambulances. My understanding is that we had response times ranging as high as over an hour. Some of them for transferring individuals from one hospital to another. Some of them just to get calls for service at their place of residence, in excess of 20 minutes. Reporter mutual aid was called for ambulances from as far away as sacramento. But Deputy Director mike dayton of the department of Emergency Management said the Emergency Operating Center did open friday morning. Operation staff was there. We had a duty officer there, the manager was on call. We were ready for a busy day at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the Fire Department did not provide a response to our request for an interview. Police searching a Las Vegas Casino for a shooter and putting an innocent professional Football Player on the ground in handcuffs. Why did that happen . He has an idea. One that could lead to a civil rights lawsuit. Its really troubling. Troubling is just one way to describe what happened to animals like these in a quiet north bay neighborhood. The bay area nonprofit builds a Farmers Market on wheels. But it sits idle in a parking lot, until 7 on your side gets involved. Im Michael Finney. Im Michael Finney. That story straight ahead. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. 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They taped off both scenes as they investigate just what happened. On the ground is nfl player michael bennett, handcuffed by a Las Vegas MetroPolice Officer. The video was from tmz sports. The Seattle Seahawks defensive end says this was motivated by racism. Alyssa harrington is here with the story. Reporter he reached out to civil rights attorney john burris, who works out of oakland and taken on police brutality. Buthe Police Department says race played no part in this incident. Body camera footage released by the las vegas Police Department follows officers as they chase a man out the doors of a casino and over a wall. This happened in the Early Morning hours of august 27. That man, Seattle Seahawks defensive end michael bennett. Cell phone video shows the nfl star face down on the ground in handcuffs. Bennett says he committed no crime, and was targeted bs skin. Its a traumatic experience for me, my family. Reporter bennett spoke out wednesday, hours after posting a lengthy statement on social media. He says he heard what sounded like gunshots and ran looking for safety. Instead, he was confronted by police, and restrained with such force he says he had trouble breathing. Do i think every Police Officer is bad . No, i dont believe that. Are there people that judge people on the color of their skin . I do believe that. Reporter officers were responding to a possible active shooter at the casino. The undersheriff says they saw bennett crouched behind a Gaming Machine before he ran. Due to his actions and the information the officers had, they believed ben it may have been involved in the shooting and gave chase. Reporter he says race was not a factor. Bennett was cleared and released. He has since hired oakland based attorney john burris, and is considering filing a federal civil rights lawsuit. He was emotionally traumatized by this. But for him, the big issue is standing up to be heard and seen for something that was wrong. Reporter bennett does not stand for the National Anthem before the game to protest inequality and says he will continue pushing his message. Alyssa harrington, abc7 news. Thank you. A San Jose Police are looking for the suspect who shot and killed a man last night in a random attack. Police say the victim is in his 30s. He was shot around 9 00 last night near sunset avenue. He died at the hospital. The shooter has not been found. Neither has the murder weapon. A crime in the north bay. A man is in a lot of trouble after police say he shot and killed a deer and her fawn that were eating plants on his property. Cornell bernard is live with details on this story. Cornell . Reporter yeah, really troubling story, ama. The chief of police says its not only cruel but against the law to kill deer in city limits, or most places in california. Neighbors are outraged. The homeowners Attorney Says he never meant to hurt the deer. This was a family of deer that we watched from the time they were little tiny fawns. Reporter linda and clause mineberg have been taking pictures of a doe and two fawns for weeks. They believe its one of these fawns and its mother that were shot and killed by their neighbor on saturday. Very outrageous that to scare a deer, all you have to do is look at them and theyll look at you and run off. You dont need to shoot them. We got a call from a residet about somebody that i believe was described as sneaking around the street with a flashlight. Reporter the police chief says officers showed up and found a homeowner who said deer had been eating his new landscaping. Nearby, a gruesome sight. The discovery of two dead, one dead, one dying, that he had shot with a pellet gun. Reporter police say this is the pellet gun used to kill the gear. He was arrested and charged with animal cruelty. Theyre performing a me cr ingin the deer to determine how many times it was shot. Even if they eat your vegetation, its not worth killing a gentle, innocent animal. Reporter abc7 news tried contacting Mark Dickenson several times, but the Attorney Says police had no right the arrest him. My client had no intention of harming, hurting, or acting in any malicious way towards the animals. Reporter what was his intent then . Scare them away. Reporter dickenson is out of jail on bail. The d. A. s office is reviewing the case. Cornell bernard, abc7 news. Time to check on our weather. Oh, that nice breeze was great today. Will it continue, Spencer Christian is here with the forecast. Now youre talking about how good that cool breeze feels. We have another warmup coming our way, but nothing like last weekends heat wave. This is a look at the sevenday High Temperature trend in livermore. Notice the average High Temperature this time of the year is 86 degrees. Next couple of days, temperatures will be a few degrees below average. Sunday, monday, 95 degrees all of a sudden will be the high in livermore. Thats the trend well see in inland areas. Lets take a look at live doppler 7 hd and ill give you a closer look at the bumpup in temperatures. Clouds getting thicker in parts of the bay area. We may have a few showers, an isolated thunderstorm on the way. This is the view looking at low clouds surging out over the bay. Its 69 degrees here in San Francisco. 73 across the bay in oakland. 77 in mountain view. 78 in gilroy. 67 at half moon bay. Check out this view of the western skies, the sunset sky from emeryville. Currently 75 with just about everywhere. Santa rosa, 75. 76 at concord. And one more live view from our south beach camera in downtown San Francisco, these are the forecast features. Showers overnight and into the Early Morning hours. Possibly even an isolated thunder blast. A little less humid on friday. Thats good. Over the weekend, a warmer pattern settles in, and its going to get hot in a few inland spots. Starting at 11 00 tonight, well see increasing clouds and lots of moisture offshore during the overnight hours. Well see some of those showers maybe across the coast and out over some of the higher terrain. So dont be surprised if you encounter a few wet spots if youre a morning commuter. By noon tomorrow, showers will have tapered off. As we get into the afternoon hours, well see it drying out, sunnier skies and dryer air on the way, as well. Overnight lows in the mid 60s but feeling a little muggy, because humidity is higher than average. Tomorrow, highs from the mid to upper 60s at the coast. Low and mid 70s around the bay and low 80s in the warmest inland locations. Clouds h