A lot of fear. Da lin talks to drivers and a woman who recently survived being shot on the freeway. Reporter local authorities admit freeways have turned into battlegrounds for gangs and incidents of road rage. The chp said they responded to more than 400 freeway shootings in the bay area since 2020. Freeways, theyre how people get around go, to work and go for grocery runs, but the repeated shootings are scaring the public. Our home backs up to 580. So its our main thoroughfare. So were on it constantly and it is now a thought i have every single time i get on the freeway. Reporter oakland residents leanne and alonzo cabell say they avoid the freeway if possible. They drove on city streets friday to take their granddaughter to the park. I used to honk more when someone cut me off or speed up and try to look over and give eye contact and now i just let people go about their day. Not only would we not honk, we wont even look to see who might have passed us. Reporter one freeway shooting survivor tells me she now drives mostly in the slow lanes. Were protecting her identity because her case is still open. I signal. I look over my shoulder before i change lanes. I did all the right things right . But that split second decision to proceed with the lane change ended up nearly costing me my life. This person hunted me for close to minute dodging traffic to catch up just so that he could pull into the shoulder and shoot at me and try to kill me. Reporter i first interviewed this woman in her 30s a couple weeks ago. The chp called her case a road rage incident. Multiple bullets hit her car. One shot struck her right leg. It happened on july 14th on 280 in San Francisco, the same day the 8yearold boy was paralyzed by a stray bullet on 580. Investigators say the two cases are not connected. Ill be thinking about him every day. Im lucky to be alive and his outcome is so different. Reporter many drivers like leanne and alonzo say given how dangerous freeways have turned into, they now support freeway cameras. Circumstances are starting to make people consider giving up privacy rights because i used to be more of, you know, more cameras are more trouble, but now its like more cameras could help solve a shooting or murder. Reporter chp says no arrests in the two july 14th freeway shootings. Theyre asking witnesses with dashcam video and tesla drivers to come forward because teslas have builamer. Caltrans has installed 50 cameras just in oakland alone. Seven are on interstate 580, another seven on interstate 80 and 36 on interstate 880. Cameras have also been installed in san leandro, berkeley, emeryville, richmond and pittsburg. At least 180 cameras have been put up across the bay area. Tomorrow oakland residents with their first chance to way in on the citys police chief, in february the previous chief was fired over allegations of mishandling a case of officer misconduct. Now the Police Commission said it wants the publics input on what to look for in a new chief. A Public Meeting is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10 30 at the Golden Gate Branch library. In San Jose Police are trying to figure out what happened to two people found dead in a home. This afternoon our chopper was over the scene in the 1600 block of parkmoor avenue. Police announced they are treating this as a homicide but did not provide more details. Firefighters in hayward are on the scene of a brushfire that quickly started spreading this afternoon. You can see crews trying to stop those flames. The fire is burning on harder road near west view not too far from cal state east bay. It appears there was an encampment in that area, this view from our chopper showing a propane tank in the middle of the flames and the thick black smoke rising into the air. Luckily the fire is contained, but crews will remain on scene to make sure there arent flareups. In the East San Jose foothills crews finally stopped the progress of the clayton fire which burned close to homes yesterday. Cal fire says its now 60 contained after it scorched 66 acres, still no word on how that fire actually started. We could see more of these fires as the weather starts to heat up this weekend. First alert chief meteorologist paul heggen joins us with a closer look on the timing of all this. Kind of competing factors, heat and very dry vegetation, but not really low humidity levels or gusty offshore winds. Theres some good news. Thats why our fire threat isnt off the charts. Our fire danger index combines all of the weather and fire fuel factors, the dryness of the fire fuels along with temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction. We rank it 0 row to ten. This time of year topping out around three or four is pretty good territory. Temperatures will continue heating up heading into the weekend. Tomorrow the values will be closer to a four or five, but in the peak of the heat sunday we wont be much higher topping out around halfway up that scale. Temperatures will be warmer tomorrow running a few degrees above average around the bay, about 4 to 7 degrees farther inland, a mix of 80s and 90s and the peak of the heat arriving sunday. We can categorize that with the excessive heat risk, essentially the risk of overexertion, which for the hottest spots in the delta topped out in the elevated category today. It will climb into the moderate category tomorrow, temperatures approaching 100 degrees and sunday when temperatures get over 100 in the delta, we edge into the high, maybe bordering on the very high categories, but its going to be brief. Well talk about when temperatures return to normal in a few minutes. Paul, thanks. Now to san pablo where most residents evacuated during a hazmat incident have been allowed to finally go home. Two days ago firefighters found hundreds of boxes full of Hazardous Materials in a backyard shed on stanton avenue. They belonged to a retired chemistry teacher who died about six months ago. There are only four homes still under evacuation order. Contra costa fire plans to let them back into their homes later today. A fire in San Franciscos north beach neighborhood damaged a well known bakery this montana. The fire started in one of the ovens at liguria bakery. Weve had the owner over 100 some areas and apparently, i guess, from heating the oven we use a flame and the flame must have affected the walls of the building. Thankfully, the flames were contained before it could spread much further. Now after yesterdays arraignment, former President Trump is preparing to defend himself in the courts while he also tries to win the republican president ial primary. Reporter Willie James Inman on the fallout in the latest legal case against trump. Reporter former President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail one day after pleading not guilty during the arraignment on charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election. When you look at whats happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. Reporter trump says the charges against him are meant to distract him from campaigning. He posted on social media friday, resources that would have gone into ads and rallies will now have to be spent fighting these radical left thugs in numerous courts throughout the country. The cases have done little to slow down trumps momentum with Republican Voters. He continues to gain ground against his gop primary rivals. Campaigning in iowa, governor ron desantis, trumps closest opponent, attacked the government and not the former president. The question is what are we going to do about it . We need to end the weaponization. Were going to hold doj, fbi, irs, all these agencies accountable. Reporter 76 of likely Republican Voters in a recent cbs news poll say the indictments are politically motivated. Trump posted this week, i need one more indictment to insure my election. That one more indict could be coming from atlanta. The Fulton County d. A. Appears to be on the verge of securing an indictment for trumps attempts to overturn the election in the state of georgia. A bill making it more expensive for drivers across bay area bridges has a group of lawmakers concerned about those potential toll hikes. That bill will temporarily raise tolls by 1. 50. It was first introduced by San Francisco state senator scott weiner to help save public transit. However, its receiving pushback from bay area congressional leaders. In a letter by representatives anna eshoo and mark desaulnier, they worry it would disproportionately impact low income communities who drive to work. Eastbound 80 is closed for the weekend. Traffic will be detoured at state route 4 interchange in hercules. The closure began at 9 00 this morning and ends monday at 5 00 p. M. Eastbound i80 will be closed august 18th. Tonights Mega Millions drawing is crazy numbers. This is the fourth highest prize in the games history. The lump sum payout after taxes is estimated at about 625 million. Theres a chance. 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In san jose another company is halting construction on a huge tech campus in the downtown area. Boston property said it will hit a pause button on its platform 16 campus, the company blaming the Market Conditions in the area located on west julian street between the autumn parkway and north autumn street. The complex broke ground in 2020, but the pandemic put it on hold. Construction of the office space would total more than 1 million square feet and consist of three buildings when its completed. Its located next to the sites where google intends to develop a new transit village, but google says its currently reassessing the timeline for that village. Tesla is facing a new Class Action Lawsuit from disgruntled owners who claim the company misled them about the range of its vehicles and even created a special team to suppress complaints. A new report from reuters this week alleges tesla vehicles would give unrealistic projections about their range on a full battery. Those projections would change as the battery was drained. Now the company is also accused of canceling as many Service Appointments as possible related to this issue to save time and money. Take a look at this, a tesla model s that spontaneously caught fire according to firefighters this week in rancho cordova. The Fire Department says the car was salvaged from flooding in florida. It had been sitting in the yard several months when it caught fire. They say it was surrounded by millions of dollars in salvaged cars, including ferraris, lamborghinis and bentleys and couldnt be moved as the fire burned. Right now 62 Million People are under heat alerts across the United States and a new round of potentially record setting heat is expected to hit the south. More than 140 heat records have the potential to be shattered just this weekend. These extreme temperatures are proving lethal across the u. S. Freeman county, arizona, is reporting 64 heatrelated deaths so far this year. This is unusual, day, night, never seen anything like it. 14 people have been killed by the heat in Maricopa County this past week, no relief in sight as phoenix is forecast to see sizzling temperatures over 100 of the next seven days. Its just crazy how hot it is other places. You look at our temperatures and its going to be warm, hot in some places. Nothing like that. Weve been very lucky. Its because of where the heat dome has been set up. We havent lost the onshore influence around the bay area. Even when it heats up inland, it doesnt last long. Ive lived inland and its gotten hot a few days, but in a couple days it backs down to pretty much normal temperatures. The heat returns for the weekend, High Pressure building from a Different Directions pinching at us from the southwest and southeast. The upshot is more atmosphere on top of us means the atmosphere weighs more, compresses the air at ground level and heats it up. It also really squashes the marine layer. The inland heat peaks sunday, but like every heatwave this summer, this one will be mercifully brief for inland parts of the bay area. For livermore a high of 101 sunday and mid90s monday, more tolerably hot and then slightly below average temperatures much of next week, a baby warmup by the following weekend, but its just been such a pattern weve seen these heatwaves arriving exclusively over the weekends, but only lasting a couple days. Well keep an eye quality as we head into the weekend with urban pollutants, but it looks like the smoke drifting down from the flat fire in oregon will stay just off the coast. A little bit of it makes its way into mendocino county. The fire in oregon is over 30,000 acres and only about 30 contained. The bulk of the smoke from that will avoid the bay area. What does make its way to our skies is mainly elevated in the atmosphere as opposed to being at ground level. Ground level pollutants trapped means well see air quality mostly in the moderate category tomorrow and moderate everywhere sunday and monday. Its ground level ozone thats the primary troublemaker heading through the weekend into early next week. As temperatures back down and the heat dome retreats, good air quality by tuesday. Temperatures now, blue skies over San Francisco, 60s around the bay, a few 70s, mostly 80s inland, upper 80s in livermore and concord. The fog along the coast will spread back out across the bay, pretty widespread to begin saturday. Inland it doesnt last long at all. Around the bay well see improving visibilities by midmorning. Along the coast the fog and low clouds hang out until at least noon, but i think youll see some sunshine glimmering through by saturday afternoon, more of that sunday. Temperatures tonight drop down mostly to the 50s, which is normal for this time of year. Highs tomorrow are going to reach barely above 60 degrees along the coast, 70s and 80s down the peninsula and around the south end of the bay, mostly mid to upper 80s in the santa clara valley, low 90s in morgan hill and gilroy, low 90s for most of the trivalley, close to 70 in San Francisco, into the mid70s for oakland and the east bay, upper 80s for most of the north bay until you go farther north, farther inland temperatures farther into the 90s. If youre heading out to the Sonoma County fair, 90s in santa rosa saturday and sunday and youll see plenty of sunshine both days. The peak of the warmth sunday, only low 70s in San Francisco, close to 80 in oakland while san jose gets up to around 90. The north bay reaches well into the 90s before everybody backs down to near normal, slightly below tuesday through friday next week. The contrast here, over 100 in the trivalley sunday, on the coast in the low 60s still. Still. Still. Its like groundhog day. Yeah. Every days the same. Until october. Thanks, paul. Still ahead here at 5 00, reaching for a dream, well introduce you to a bay area student drawing on Lessons Learned in her parents donut shop to achieve a goal she never thought possible. Wells fargo once again dealing with trouble with its bank accounts, why some customers money suddenly went missing. Remember, you can watch us anytime anywhere on our streaming service cbs news bay area. Catch all of our live newscasts, plus news and weather updates throughout the day. You can find us so cbs news bay area is a proud partner with students rising above. Thats right. The nonprofit was founded by former kpix anchor and it has helped thousands of kids from disadvantaged backgrounds go to college. Today we are relaunching our series of monthly student profiles. Our mission is to tell the stories of young people who despite their circumstances have gone on to achieve greatness in their academic and professional lives. Our First Student profile is about a young woman who went from working in her familys donut shop to uc law San Francisco. Have a cup of tea at home with emily tang and you may notice a familiar theme sprinkled around her apartment. Theres always like a joke amongst my Close Friends even in middle school, high school till now even at law school which is oh, we know were really good friends with emily when we are sick of donuts. Emily is about to begin her second year at uc law San Francisco. Shes achieving a dream she once thought was out of reach, like so many students who are the first in their family to achieve higher education, but to understand how she got here, you have to go back to where it all began, behind the counter of her parents donut shop in santa clara. Growing up in a donut shop, i honestly did not know any other way of growing up and i had other extended families in donut shops. So it was kind of my normal in a sense. So i would be at the donut shop. I would play on the Cash Register to like learn math. I would fold boxes, so i had like, you know, daytoday chores. When i was like 10 or so, my parents received like a citation for child labor work because someone reported that like a child wa