Seasonal weather lasts and talk about perhaps the chance of a sprinkle or two later on in the upcoming work week. All right, lisa. See you soon. Thank you very much. Well, this morning firefighters warned that fire season is only going to get worst. The warning comes after a fire comes dangerously close to homes in the east bay. We have the details from contra costa county. Reporter they fought the fire from the air and from the ground as it length to life on the dry, grassy hillside. It was scary, absolutely scary. Homeowners leaped into action without much success. I dropped the hose and just took off. The fire crept into six yards, burned several retaining walls and trees. Everything expected the ballmers house to be destroyed. The flames were 30 feet tall when they reached the backyard. I started withed garden hose when it was in this area. It was outside the fence. But then before long it got right over here and just jumped. The wind just blew it and it just jumped and it was crazy. It went to the left, and then it went to the right. Bobby and phil ran for their lives as the fire consumed their shed, which was just ten feet from their home. Fire crews arrived just in time. They saved the home. Words could hardly express the ball percent gratitude. The smile on your face says it all. Thank you so much. Thank you. Even as the chief admitted, this could have been a lot worse. We could have had a lot of homes with the way the winds are moving right now. Its very difficult. Large flames like this. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Lisa amin gulezian, abc7 news. The contra costa fire marshal tells us there has already been significantly more fires so far this year than usual. Usually we are at this count in september or october, not midjune. Embers from a wildfire blue across 680 and ag nighted a home. Yesterday the owners looked toward rebuilding. Sky 7hd captured shes these amazing pictures of the fire. It burned several outbuildings along with heather and evan thorntons home. Yesterday they found heathers Engagement Ring buried in the charred remnants of the bedroom. I saved by Wedding Dress already, and this is just like, everything is going to be already. The wet willing still happen. Health ares cousin started a campaign to help raise money for the couple. A local church has offered to host their upcoming wed league accepting. The wedding reception was supposed to take place at their house. Contra costa firefighters saved very small lives yesterday when flames gut add vacant home in pittsburgh. Fire raced through a home being used for storage along hillcrest avenue. It took about an hour to get it under control. One of the firefighters heard kittens. I stuck my head by a refrigerator and i saw a little head move out of this foam. A baby kitten, newborn kitten stuck its head up and meuwed. They gave them oxygen before bringing them to a shelter for a check up. In San Francisco firefighters say they face many challenges fighting a fire that burned between two buildings. It broke out behind the five happiness chinese restaurant. They had to cut holes in the restaurants walls to reach the flames. They dont think the flames started inside the building and no one was hurt. A pilot is dead after his experimental aircraft crashed near livermore. It happened before 5 00 p. M. Yesterday. The pilot took off from the Municipal Airport and crashed in the field in 580. The plane was probably in trouble from the time he took off. We have witnesses that say they saw smoke. Based on the pilots action, if he in fact jumped from the plane, it would lead us to believe perhaps it was on fire and he was in a very, very difficult situation and chose to jump out. The pilots body was found 300 yards from the plane. Sparks from the crash set a brush fire that was contained after burning an acre and a and a half. A man and boy suffered serious injuries after a s. U. V. Jumped a curve and hit them in San Francisco. Driver was trying to Parallel Park when he hit two of the victims walking on the sidewalk. It happened along a hilly stretch of grant avenue near francisco street around 4 30 yesterday afternoon. A man from san leandro has died at a Music Festival in las vegas. He was taken to a hospital. The county coroner has not said hu he died. This is a daisy carnival. 140,000 people attended friday night. Las vegas Police Report there were 250 calls for medical help. The death comes after a 15yearold girl died of a Drug Overdose at the same festival back in 2010. A police chase ended with a stolen car crashed on treasure island. Surveillance video shows the end of the chase last night. You see the people run away from the car. Chp officers had to stop the car because its occupants werent wearing seatbelts. Chp arrested the driver and released the passenger. The closer of a popular tourist spot was start this had weekend. Lombard street, the socalled cookeddest street in the world, closed down today from noon to six. It will happen over four weekends to ease traffic congestion. But instead of cars, it was clogged with people yesterday. We have more from lombard street. Reporter for six hours they strolled, snapped pictures and took in one of the most popular sites in the city, the worlds crookedest street. This is you on one of our top five. We wanted to go to alcatraz and we wanted to come here also. Over the years residents have had trouble getting through the gridlock of tourists hoping to drive down the street. This is just a sample. Cars lined up past six when they are allowed to drive down again. Its magnified during the summertime. Lombard street will be close today vehicle traffic between noon and six on saturday and sunday to see if its a viable option. There doesnt seem to be too much chaos here. In fact, it looks really clear. During a heavy weekend this location up up here. So far hes a fan of the experiment but he says the real test will come in a couple weekend. This is the first one so we will see how it goes. 4th of july will be a challenge, im sure. It always is. Residents are given a path allowing them to drive down the street to get home and cabs are also allowed to drive down. For repeat visitors the walk is an opportunity to changeup the experience. Have you ever been to lombard before . I have. Did you drive down . I drove down. But it was awesome. It was totally awesome. And now we are going to try to walk it. Over the four weekends of the project, they will set the management of traffic and also the management of parking in this neighborhood. In San Francisco, abc7 news. Happening today, the womens halfmarathon and 5k run gets underway in the east bay. Expect traffic delays on the intersection of harbor parkway. Also island drive. And also bay view drive and shoreline drive should experience closers and delays and until about 1 00 p. M. The first race gets underway at 8 00. Tomorrow officials in marin county will take up a proposal for a solar facility that would power more than 500 homes. According to our media partner, the marin independent journal, the proposed facility would be located on a former rock quarry outside of novato. The 6 million project would have more than solar panels that would generate under two meg watts of electricity. Electricity would be delivered to Marin Clean Energy via nearby powerlines. 4,000. The ongoing drought is taking its toll on summer fun for campers in san mateo county. Due to conditions, Officials Say no camping allowed in Memorial Park for the duration of the season which he understands in october. Campers with reservations will be contacted by phone or email and will be offered the opportunity to reschedule their reservation for 2015 or request a full refund of camping fees. Thats too bad if you have a reservation burks probably not a bad idea either. Yes. A beautiful weekend coming up here or a beautiful sunday. We have a beautiful sunday and maybe a slight chance after few sprinkles headed our way toward the middle of the week. Nothing to get too excited about except for this shot here from the exploratorium camera. 54 in San Francisco. Partly cloudy skies and lots of sunshine. We will talk about that and how warm it will get in the week ahead next. Lisa, thank you. Also next, new developments overnight in a standoff between military authorities in south korea and a soldier who is believed to have shot and killed five comrades. And the next challenge for the u. S. Mens soccer team. A preview of the match. And this week with George Stephanopoulos is airing a little later than usual today due to coverage of the world cup. Developing news a teenager is dead and three others injured following a shooting. It happened before 1 00 this morning at a house party. Responding officers found a teenage boy who was shot in the chest and three other people were also shot. They were taken to the hospital where the teenager died. The suspect is described as a black male wearing sweat pants and a tshirt. He got away. Two others may have been in the car as well. Developing news out of south korea where military authorities have surrounded a soldier who killed five comrades at a border outpost. Authorities were trying to persuade the soldier, identified only by his family name, yim, to surrender. He opened fire saturday night with his standard issued Assault Rifle killing five fellow soldiers and wounding seven others. A coast guard helicopter rescued four people who got stranded row to go hawaii. They were participating in a race. , Great Pacific race. Their boat took on water. They were found 75 miles west of san luis yesterday. The rowers were picked up. A florida couple were rescued after treadingwater for 14 hours in the pacific ocean. They fell off their boat friday night and were not wearing life vests. The boast, that was still in gear, kept on going. They drifted for miles. Besides hypothermia and jellyfish stings, they were fine. Team usas second world cup game is today against portugal. There will be viewing parties for the matchup. There will also be viewing at st. James part in san jose. All of it gets underway at 3 00. With the u. S. Winning its first match begins ghana, everyone is waiting to see how they will fare against portugal. We have more. [cheers and applause] Reporter Team usa is gearing up for a rumble in the jungle. They beat portugal on sunday and they are looking good to advance to the next round. The u. S. Is coming off a huge win over ghana. Portugal, a bad fourgoal loss to germany. But both squads are dealing with significant injuries. The u. S. Will be without their star forward josey. He sprained his hamstring against ghana. And captain Chris Dempsey will play, but hes banged up. He is not going to wear a facemask for his broken nose. If you get hit in the face with a mask, its still going to hurt. The big question is portugals superstar reigning player of the year. He spent time on the sidelines at practice this week, nursing a knee injury. Hes a special player, but hes important to the team. The manager said after the ghana game that the u. S. Needs to keep better control of the ball. A tougher task without him. Try to keep it clean. The game will be played deep in the everglades rainforest. Conditions are hot and humid and cramping and die hydration are a major concern. I dont know if theres much you can get ready for it rather than just being in there was a record tv audience for the u. S. Win over ghana and that was a monday evening game. Excitement was building all week for sundays showdown between diehard soccer fans and the new ones who are just tuning in. Abc news, washington. This morning belgium plays russia at 8 30 a. M. And south korea takes on algeria at 11 30. You can watch on abc. In fact west only place you will be able to watch. You dont have to miss a moment with matches on your smartphone, tablet or computer. At 3 00 p. M. The match everyone will be watching, team usa versus portugal. You can watch it live on our sister network, espn. These fans are ready. These viewers are clearly portugal fans. We want to see your fan photos. Check out this family. You can email your fan photos to ureport at kgotv. Com or upload them to our news app or at obc7 news. Com ureport. Second heavy traffic in Sonoma County today. 50,000 nascar fans are expected for the toyota two save 350. Jamey is expected to win. The big race starts today at noon. I was heading back from Sonoma County and got caught in all of the traffic. You were warned, right . Yeah. Its crazy popular out there and it will be a nice day for race viewing. Yeah, about 80 degrees. Right now starting out with partly cloudy skies. We show a few of the high clouds, but its mainly the crow clouds that are hugging the coastline and also filtering in parts of the bay. The marine layer is shallow, about 1,000 feet. It will allow for the cool sea breeze again to keep the coast just near 60 degrees. Heres a live shot from the east bay hills camera where you see the fog. 49 in morgan hill and 56 in oakland. The southwest wind blowing through the delta, allowing for temperatures there to be fairly seasonal. And emeryville this morning, you can see the fog. 51 in napa. 45 novato, and 47 santa rosa. 54 concord, and finally in san jose nice and sunny with some low clouds and fog just at the coast around the san mateo area with Cool Conditions there. Warm inland. And the seasonal pattern continues right through wednesday. After that we are looking at perhaps a strong trough that will drop out of the gulf of alaska. But its High Pressure situated offshore that keeps the sea breeze steady and temperatures cool at the coast. We should get into a little bit of sunshine. We will call it partly sunny there. Little change as we go through monday and tuesday. Temperatures could come up two or three degrees as the ridge begins to get a little closer to the coast. And then comes the big cool down. We have been so dry. In fact, near the driest year on record, but not quite. You can see with the percentages of normal. 40 percent in santa rosa. And just 14 1 2 inches of rain. 53 in San Francisco. We will add to the totals . No, not likely. Heres whats happening by wednesday night into thursday. The strong system will bring rain to the Pacific Northwest and mendocino county. Perhaps sonoma. And down through marin county maybe a couple hundredth. Climatological speaking we dont get rain in june, but Stranger Things have happened. It is coming perhaps our way in the far north bay by wednesday night and thursday. Over to the almeda county fair temperatures will be about the same at 3 00, 80 trees. Look for upper 70s today from san jose. 85 hearing hill. Mid70s return for redwood city with low 60s pacifica. South city a few degrees warmer. Bodega bay, sunshine at 64. 71 san leandro and 75 castro valley. Pleasanton, mid80s. Accuweather sevenday forecast, temperatures today 70s around the bay. 86 inland. Theres the couple degrees of warming, then the cool down with maybe a few light sprinkles in the north bay and warming back up behind the system. Let you know how warm its going to be in your community is easy by keeping track of bay area weather on twitter with live doppler 7hd. We can use the rain, even light sprinkles. I remember four years ago my Daughters High SchoolSan Francisco, pouring rain in june. So it happens. We can only hope. Lisa, thank you so much. Coming up next, changes we can see to the maverick surf competition with new management now in charge. Heat shields are compromised. We whats that alarm . Ures. Fuel cell two is down. Im going to have to guide her in manually. This is very exciting. But im at my stop. Come again . Im watching this on the train. Its so hard to leave. Good luck with everything. Watch tv virtually anywhere with the uverse tv app. With at t, the uverse revolves around you. January hairston joins us from new york to tell us what is coming up at 7 00 on good morning america. Good morning. Coming up on gma this morning a big and potentially risky move by pope francis. A man known for taking bold stances. What hes doing to the mafia that some worry could jeopardize his personal safety. Also we look ahead to the big game in the world cup and team usa and what they need to do to beat the team from portugal. And a couple treading water for 14 hours. No boat, no life jackets. How did they survive . And the winner of the ugliest dog competition. His name is peanut. Hes getting ready to go live with us this morning. Its coming up on a busy sunday morning. See you soon. Thank you very much. The maverick sport competition is under new management. Now we are getting a look at what changes are coming. According to the paper, he wants to make it mainstream. Like the world cup or super bowl. The company will try to line up a Major Network to broadcast and there will be branding changes and a bigger presence on social media. As for the surfers, he wants to help pay them expenses, many of whom travel overseas with just 24 hour notice. Each year two dozen of the best big wave surfers are invited to try to tame monster waves off Half Moon Bay. Much more ahead on the abc7 sunday morning news. Growing concern with the crisis in iraq and why it is not looking good for Iraqi Security forces. And its a summer day in the park for some San Francisco school kid First Impressions are important. Youve got to make every second count. Banking designed for the way you live your life. So you can welcome your family home for the first time. So we made our own commercial to tell you why. First, chex makes lots of gluten free flavors. Which is a huge thing for us. And theres seven to choose from. Like cinnamon, honey nut, and chocolate. I tell them you guys are gonna turn into chocolate chex i like cinnamon, greg is a honey nut nut. When you find something this good, you want to spread the word. [ all ] were the pearsons, and we love chex we are starting this halfhour with a look at the weather. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, lisa. Hi, cornell. Good morning. Heres a shot