Original nell planned on september 3rd. Most recent problem involved 32 of the bridge steel rod remember the fastener that held tight a seismic strengthening structure on the bridge. She snapped when tighten. Did he vase retrofitted with temporary fix as well as a longterm solutio solution. Bridge officials have been waiting for an update from the fetd Highway Administration and tonight that is in. So heres the letter the agency were to the California Department of transportation. Gives approval to move ahead on plan to fix bad bolt on the bay bridge. Specifically it says we see no reason to delay opening the bridge to traffic prior to the sheer key retrofit being complete. So the possibility of opening day right after labor day is potentially an option once again. In case that bears out the Highway Patrol is arranging schedules to provide round the clock shifts just in case. It has been onagain offagain now it may on again. We keep you up to date. Baseball fan fell to his death during tonight braves game at turner field in atlant atlanta. Police say the man fell 65 feet from a stadium platform located in upper level and landed in private parking lot. He was taken to the4 aho foul play not suspected just tragic accident. The braves hosting the Philadelphia Phillies this week. Death is the second fatal fall at turner field. Spectator died in 2008 after falling 150 feet from upper deck concourse. Well now to a radical reform being proposed by attorney general holder. He spoke in San Francisco about the drug related offenses filling the prison system. Prison population in the United States is 1. 5 million at this point. In fact we house 25 of the world prisoner even though the United States has only 5 percent of the world populatio population. Mispolitical reporter mark with the reform he has in mind and reaction. Speaking to Bar Association attorney general holder said criminal charges will be changed. Certain low level nonviolent drug offenders who have no tie to gng or cartel will in longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences. U. S. Attorney for california Northern District sat in the front row for holder speech but ducked out revving our request for reaction. The president of the american Bar Association says federal judges she heard from are in favor of holder plan. This is something they want discretionco. Minimum sentencig is one of the most difficult things that they are rivrd to do. San francisco da told reporters hes thinking of state wide initial that i have would reduce simple drug possession to miss did he mean or. Automatically reduce sentence to go one year. I think right thing to do. Holder did not talk about the federal raids on by area pot dispensary or the fact that federal law contradicts the legalizing of medical mayor juan. Defense attorney legalization advocate told me hes delighted by holder position but he suspects the motive. It is concept of justice or giving the brick to the lowlp level nonviolent criminal. They cant afford the number of prisoners that they have incarcerated. Holder did say that while the nation population increased by a third since the 1980s the prison population is increased by 800 percent. And blackmail are serving significantly longer sentences than white male convicted of similar crimes. This isnt just unacceptabl unacceptable. It is shameful. [applause] it is unworthy of our great country. Shortly after holder speech, spoke by phone with retired federal judge walker who said he was very happy with whether holder had to say. But the operator of the state largest medical marijuana facility said he had hoped for much more. Reporting from the newsroom, abc 7 news. Santa cruz county woman faces charges this evening for impersonate ago nurse at one of the bay area biggest public hospitals. Santa clara county sheriffs Deputy Arrested crystal cook at Valley Medical Center friday. Investigators say cook wore surgical scrub and phoney hospital i. D. Badge. There is no evidence yet that cook entered any secure areas or treated any patients. Shes being released from custody. She has been relessed. Other hospital have been asked whether they have seen cook around their facilit facilities. Governor brown signed Ground Breaking bill in the law today. It allow the state transgender students to choose which bathrooms they use and on which sports teams they wish to participate. Abc 7 News Reporter nick smith with the decision and the ramifications. It has not been a major issue for us. Prepare to return to school a bill is signed that allow transgender students to participate in sports and other activity as well as use bathroom based on gender identity as opposed to the sex at birth. For other School Districts not to that point what thenr new law means is that transgender students will be recognized as protected class. Reporter giving transgender students the same rights at minority and women. Brown could have waited until tuesday to sign the bill but encouraged by San Francisco assemblyman tom the bill sponsor to do it now. This is to ensure that transgender kid are able to get exactly what every other child deserves which is an opportunity for the education. This bill has had its criti critic. Some citing it as example of liberalism run amuck and mav could compromise the privacy of other students. We need very specific so no misunderstanding and people dont take ambiguity as opportunity to deny people their rights. Ab 1 2 6 6 the first of the kind to spell[ out terms as matter of law. In oakland, 7 news. 10yearold antioch boy still in the hospital tonight after he was severely mauled by a pit bull over the weekend. These are pictures of hunter kill borne from the hospital bed poor guy. Uc davis Medical Center in sacramento thats where he underwent surgery after attacked by at least one dog during visit to his neighbor house to play video games with a friend. A lot of apology today over an incident at the giants ballpark and tweet that went viral. Baltimore or yells Center Fielder jones who is black said that someone threw a banana at him last night during the game with the giants and he tweeted about it. Vick lee has the story of fall out. It happened in the 9th inning. Jones had hit a 3 run homer off zito in the top of the inning. Juarez is a baseball coach at antioch high school. Sitting just right of the right field foul pole where he had a good view of jones. I saw something float on to the field center field then he picked it up. Maybe 2 minutes later dunk it over the center field tent. Season ticket hold frer antioch says he doesnt know whether it was that landed on the field but he says jones looked irritated. He looked and shrugged and disgruntled said something to one of the team mates. African americanco Center Fielder said it was banana that he picked up. He later tweeted i want to thank whatever person threw that banana towards my direction in center field in the last inning. Way to show your class. That tweet generated lots more in another tweet he said i love how some people are defen defending the actions by someone today. Show us how you really are also all good with me. The giants issued a Statement Today apologizing toxd jones and entire orioles team. They say they investigated the incident but unfortunately we have been unable to identify the person responsible. Late today the mercury news reported that annual ex an dear contacted the newspaper and said he threw bat nana out on the field. And that he did it because he was upset at the giants 102 loss that it was not directed at jones. Paper quoted him as saying it was not racially motivated. In hindsight i wish i didnt do it. And i apologize im very sorry. Vick lee abc 7 news. City leaders in hayward filing charges against what they call an illegal strike set for 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Thats when 280 workers will walk off the jobs for three days. Those positions include librarians. Waste Water Treatment employee. City Hall Administration positions animal control officers and road crew. City Officials Say they will try to provide temporary workers to fill the gap. Well tesla founder constantly travels between San Francisco and los angeles. He began wondering if there was a better way to commute between those 2 distant location and it turns out that there might be and hes behind it. Its fantastic future like and maybe even feasible. Heres 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman on what they are calling a hyper loop. Reporter decades from now the original from the sketches may highly collectible depend on whether transportatio system becomes reality. When the man backing it is billionaire musk. He has fiscal ability. Insight. And the tenacity to accomplish seemingly impossible tasks. Heres another. Today he proposed Transportation System called the hyper loop to connect cities. Aluminum pod would travel on small cushion on of compressed air through tube above ground in near vacuum powered by electrical motors solar panel and kinetic energy. Travel at hundreds even thousands of miles per hour. Musk layed out thesnept. It would actually feel like being in an airplane. Initial acceleration. And once you travel at speed you wouldnt notice the speed at all. Reporter it wasc musk who developed pay pal. Musk who transition space flight to the commercial sector. And musk with engineer who developed tesla electric car. What is fascinate to go me about this is that he is typical of this new generation of hyper entrepreneur. Reporter small futurist at stanford and he says this would be decade away and based on existing Technology Development a product not only of engineering but a big project philosophy. Among billionaire thats what the status is. Status isnt money. Status is chang his system can not be derailed because there are no rails. He foresee this leaving every 30 seconds. And he said today he plans to build a demonstration project. He did not say where. In San Francisco, wayne abc 7 news. That is a wild idea. Interesting to see if it work. Plant versus plant. Coming up. Growing threat facing the bay area billion dollar wine industry. Who doesnt like parking at broken meter. Well is it legal . Tonight the governor makes his final decision on that question. Spencer is here with back to work forecast. Here in the forecast center we look at some of the warmest weather we have seen in quite some timeu coming our way this week. Show you how high the temperatures rights rise in my accuweather forecast. Wildfire in tahoe showing no signs of letting up. We have the very latest on it. Stay the very latest on it. Stay with us. Fire in lake tahoe is growing and now almost 2 square miles and smoke is spilling into reno. Patrick walker has more. The fire fight is on northeast of forest hill. Firefighters have relied heavily on 3 helicopters. Dropping water on the blaze before wind and heat of the day could fan the fire. Its behaving itself fairly much right now but this afternoon it is very critical in terms of winds. Officials say the fire is no the threatening any buildings but the large plume of smoke is another story. Smoke was a big issue last night. Got a lot of call and concerns smoke from roseville to reno. About 150 firefighters battle the blaze tonight. But the number is expected to grow tomorrow morning when type 2 Incident Management Team takes over command of the fire. Fire continue to grow the team will be able to handle moreu resources as fire crew try to keep this fire from racing out of the canyon in. That country it may take awhile before they are able to deal with all parts of the fire. Just because of the access issue. That is Patrick Walker reporting from tahoe. Because of the heavy smoke it is hard to make precise estimates of the fire actual size. Well back here. Wine growers in the north bay are facing a new threat to their grapes. Heres the problem. Its called the stink wart. Its a plant. The weed is found in half the state but only now spreading into napa county. Thats according to the Sacramento Bee and while the weed has yet to become a real problem turnenec3 z tiny lk odor may pose a danger with grape near by. It looks like tumble weed and with small yellow flowers it made its first appearance in california in 1994. Its only grown in 3 other states back east. You can no long he get a ticket for parking in front of a broken parking meter. The governor signed bail that end what many people felt was unfair practice by cities. Many cities believe vandalism and deliberate jamming of meters might increase if the broke he be meter were not ticketed. Motorist may now park in spaces controlled by a broken meter for the maximum time allowed by that meter but you still have to be careful. Law doesntxd go into effect until the first of the year. Thats a nice break because its always frustrate with a ticket. Cant feed the meter. Tried you couldnt then you are feeding the city coffer. Spencer here back to work we go and heat is coming back. It is. Not extremely. Just pleasant. This is live doppler 7hd and we have some low clouds at the coast and they have been pushing locally through the golden gate out over the bay but not very wide spread but mostly clear sky in the inland location. Great view from the are top camera along embarcadero. Temperature readings are a cool 56 in San Francisco. 59 in oakland Mountain View 63. 67 at san jose. 65 los gatos and 55 half moon bay. Heres nice view of the bay bridge from the other side from the south beach camera at downtown San Francisco. 55 degrees right now at santa rosa. 61 at napa. Novato 65. 70 concord 71 at livermore now we look back at the sky line of downtown San Francisco from our exploring camera look at our forecast feature. We see low clouds near the coast tonight. Warmer pattern we have will be in here for the next several days. Getting hair and higher. Temperatures that is. In fact inland high around 90 degrees or above over the next three days. Water vapor satellite image shows a little differentc jet stream flowing over the bay area that help mix out some of the clouds near the coast toda today. Giving us a little patches of mostly clear sky interthe coast. Follow animation overnight you see low clouds approach the coast and pull back away tomorrow and left with sunny sky in the afternoon from coast to inland and it will be a little bit warmer in virtually all locations. Over nature tonight patchy low clouds near the coast. Low pressure mainly in the mid 50s upper 50s in some of the inland east bay location and if interested in the meat your shower tonight lack towards this constellation. Look at the northeast sky between 11 00 p. M. And dawn. Best viewing time and if you are inland or on the east side of the bay you probably have a pretty good chance of getting good view of the sky. Low clouds will probably be mainly near the coast lane. Okay for tomorrow. L excuse me. Sunny sky in the south bay. High pressure ranging from mid 70s to mid 80s up to 86 at morgan hill and los gatos. On the peninsula we see high of 72 at san mateo o. 77 at palo alto. On the coast 62 at pacifica. 66 at half man bay. Downtown San Francisco hi of 68. 65 sunset district up in the north bay nice and warm. High generally in the 80s occupy to 85 calistoga. East bay oakland high at 74. San leandro 76ni. Castro valley sfichbility inland east bay high of 89 at walnut creek. 88 at concord. 89 at spits pittsburgh. Hers accuweather 7 day forecast. 3 nice warm day coming our way. Tuesday wednesday thursday within land high at or above 90 degrees. Few degrees cool down then inlistened high come back to the low mid 90s on sunday and monday even on the coast mid 60s most of the span so nice stretch of warm weather for us. Not extreme. Not at all. Still to come tonight. On 7 news at 9. Crash test for dog. Just how safe are the restraints. We have some answers just ahead. Plus seeing the light. New clue look at em. 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