Abc7 news is live. Laura, it would normallye packed with swimmers. Exactly. Behind me here, the beach and lawn would be filled with people on a warm evening. There is nobody here. Same goes for part of the beach ov shadow cliff lake both dueo water contamination. Both very nasty. These ducks dont know what to make of e yellow tape at Lake Temescal where there is unusually high levels of toxins. Some of those who came t cool off didnt realize the lake was closed until they saw signs. Do you think its better its closed . Definitely. If there isdanger. You know . If its not something we have known implications of, it should be closed. Id rather be swimming. This weeks junior camp is also been grounded strictly by land for e next few days here you are in life guard camp u cant go into the water. Dry land is fun. We can get into the water, but we beefed it up with other stuff like survival and making fires he sh the issues high levels of e coli,reated by the drought because dead grassis no longer invitin for all of the beasts. Were not watering the lawn. And that is a area where the geese would conegate. Now theyre at beaes so goose feces and low Water Quality is an issue. Anyone ingesng the wat could suffer flu like symptoms and skin irritation. No timetable for opening either beach. In oakland, abc7 news. A new slogan is catching on in the sth bay. Brown is the n green. Residents being encouraged to embrace lawns that are now brown from lack of water. Were live with more on the rebates available and alrnative way to have a green lawn withoutasting water. Hi, david. Hi. Look athis perfect green lawn here. Just hours ago it had brown patches as a result of reduced water. Well she how transformation was made. There is anffort to make brown lawns a badge of honor. There is a n mantrathat might catch on. Brown is the new green is the slogan. If the lawn is turning a little bit brown, go ahead p this sign in there. Announce to neighbors youre doing the ght thing. Valley Water District says there is another way to conserve water, relandscape. Thats what karen about. Her perfectekt doubled rebate to per square foot. I was motivated to change it out to save time. And i didnt have to go out there to mow. I didnt have to have lawn mower that is putting out air pollution the are things that made me do it. Last year, 8 took advantage of the program. This year, 382 completed the prect or its in progress over 1. 1 million in rebat have been paid the Program Expires in september. It could be renewed. If brown isnt appealing here is a alternative. Spraying the lawn with a food coring. Green canary says it will last from 90 to 12 days and it doest harmful costing with one tenthof that artificial turf. It will give youtime to decide do i want to spend the money . John says it appeals to home sellers and allows this homeowner to cut back watering to two minutes just to keep the gras alive. In san jose, abc7 news. If you see what you think mighbe a case of water wasng send us a picture ask well check it out. More than 7500 homes and businesses are with out power after a brush fire. Sky 7 shows where broke out next to interstate 280. Crews might have sparked a fire. It broke out around 3 30 near canada college. There are no reports flames burned buildings. Police say a livermore soccer coach molested a girl. Police say he assaulted e girl in livermore. Slicker has been ordered to stay away from the facility. Heidnt enter a plea today hes due back in court august 25th. Prosecutors in San Francisco say a former sf ate University Professor threw house parties, invited students then filmed them using the batoom the yearold mark landis was arrested on wednesday. He taught accounting at San Francisco state. He faces 15 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy. Investigators say he used hiddenamera to take video. Very egregious conduct. Youre talking about a secret camera pointed towards oples again talls very concerning. Prosecutors say they knowf 15 victims but the could be more. San francisco recreation and Parks Commission rec created approving a 15 million settlement to the family of a woman t and killed by a Parks Department truck last year. In september, the woman was sun bathing with her baby and do when a truck ran her over. The baby was not injured a Parks Department gardener has been charged were getting new insight into the bath a reckless driver found officers subduing the driver in oakland they chased him for miles. Chp says there were 23 calls and five cars hit along the way. He crashed to a stop near 2 avenue on ramp and took four officers to control this guy. Take a righthand turn in front of u working here. Chp dragged the window. The chp identified the driver who they say was under the influence of drugs. Amazingly no one was hurt during this pursuit a mother accused of leaving her toddlers in a hot car appeared in court today. She is charged with child endangerment. She remains in jail on 100,000 bond. Her attory tried to get the bond reduced saying she should be abl to go home but the judge deny that had request, giving us information about her alleged offenses. Acasino employee says she was a regular, her car cod be park the outside for hours. Sunday sh her 2yearold a 3yearold daughters were crying and unable to escape temperatures. Someone from this office called 911. Today, the judge says she went inside just to use the rest room. Then, he said video does not support the claim. And explained how she ignored officers who attempted to approach her, calling her offenses very serious a tragedy people are thiing more of their personal habits or potential addictions than wt they have in the car. Greg says his station responds to kids left in cars often once or twice per month. Officials kicked off a whereres baby, look before you lock campaign. Never leave your child alone in a car. One father who lost his child shared the pain of for getting. To my horror he realized peyton was stillin the car seat. Its the last thg i remember. I heard someone screaming it was me. The girlsere uninjured but it doesnt take long for a child to overheat. If you have a 90 degree day, the temperature is 0 minutes in the car goes up to 109 degrees then 90inutes about 138 degrees. In the past few weeks weve seen the connection between hot cars and casinos. Authities arrested a mother and a man for leaving loved ones locked up while they went inside to gamble. A fastmoving fire ripped through a South Lake Tahoe hotel, sending two people to the hospital, causing 2. 5 million in damage the fire broke out about 11 45 last night inside of the deerfield lodge. It destroyed six units and six cars and displaced 35 people. Firefighters did keep flames from spreading to theront of the hotel. One witness says the fire was spitting off red emberz. At one point embers were blowing off our house. Ways looking for anything to water town thacould catch fire. Two people were injured when they jumd from a second story balcony to escape they were takeno a local hospital to be treated. Investigatorsay they dont know what caused a roof fire in onemiddle school. A neighbor says tere was lots of smoke coming from the Davis Intermediate School on eden view drive. He called the Fire Department at out 5 30 a. M. Firefigh fire out in about 20 minutes. Investigators say the fire stard on the roof and since it was afr hours, and there is no obvious heat source, its suspicious. Here is what happene in fremont today. A vehicle caught fire. Also knocked out power to th neighborhood and traffic on walnut avenue had to be diverted occupants werereated for minor injuries. More to bring you still ahd tonight, a tax proposal to make you think twice about flipping a house. In a city of billion dollar homes that could run into six figures the price tag for the new bay bridge keeps going up. Tonight the multi Million Dollar cost o repairing the broken bolts environmental dilemma facing stanford. What to do about one of endangered streams. It was hot today temperatures will peak tomorrow. Ill show you what the numbers will look like and a look at e weekend coming up. No rush, andy. Come on. With the chase mobile app you can get a lot done in a little amount of time from transferring funds wait a minute. Youve got to be kidding. Did you guys see that . That ball was out. To paying your coach for adding five Miles Per Hour to your serve. That ball wasnt in. Get your eyes checked. Help me out here. Download the best mobile app today. So you can always have the advantage. Chase. So you can San Francisco housing crisis is not subsiding today. A group marched into a Supervisors Office demanding an end to a proposed residential tax. We are live with more on the troubles of the city. Leanne . Reporter the supervisor just one of several lawmakers who are trying to defeat this crisis in San Francisco. But today sh he met with some heavy opposition from the chinese community. These protestors demanded that San Francisco supervisor put an end to his proposed residential sur tax. This is what they dont like. Anyone buying two or more units for Investment Purposes would be severely taxes if they sell within the first five years. , then less every year after that. The measure will appear on the November Ballot for voters to decide the process is speculators, people from outside come in, buy a building then flip to it make a huge profit. The sur tax will not be opposed if property is sold at a loss. Tina wong is with the Chinese Real Estate Association and calls measure unfair. Do we have a share every penny with the government . The demand forced rental and real estate prices to skyrocket. Dan and maria bought a small home on lomdard street with two units, each, one bedroom the person renting cant afford to move out the only way is to pay them off. Their Attorney Says more than 100,000. We want extra unit for family and friends. Currently we have no room whatever in our one bedroom, small apartment. This is really would be great for when they come, visit. Its ridiculous. It just stops people from being able to control anything with their property. Its really an egregious transfer of some peoples wealth to other people. A fair number of homeowners are in a similar situation, except levins are now suing the city to avoid paying any relocation money to their tenant. In San Francisco, abc7 news. That is going to take more money and more time to fix problems on the new eastern span of the bay bridge the toll Bridge ProgramOversight Committee approved another 3 million to fix broken bolts, rods and scaffolding under the bridge. There are gaps in railing system which holds maintenance scaffolds the system must be reinstalled or rebuilt in order to work properly the initial fix supposed to be completed by december. A rare redwood tree has been spared from being cut down. The 60yearold tree is one of only a handful that is both albino and normal foilage. It sits along the Railroad Tracks where the agency has plans to increase service the Agency Confirms the tree will be dug up and moved to a spot 450 feet away within view of the new station that is planned for the area. Well, lets focus now on weekend weather. Almost upon us. The weather is heating up. Yes. Its summer time here, you can feel it. Temperatures into mid90s. Were going to get into triple digits highs for today, 96. Redwood city, mid80s for fremont and oakland richmond. 75 in San Francisco. Here is a view from our south beach camera. Port of oakland, beautiful blue skies expected. 72 in San Francisco. 78 oakland. And today, dew points are down. Looking at sunshine if heading up to tahoe, there is a slight chance of showers. Mid80s around novato. 94 fairfield. Look at air quality suffering with a light breeze, temperatures rising. Here is the satellite and radar. High pressure is building in. Fire danger is running higher today and will continue tomorrow. Now, as you take a look here temperatures will peak tomorrow, then temperatures will be coming down for the weekend heat combining with humidity. Upper 50s to mid60s tomorrow morning. Its going to be clear, mild and afternoon, short sleeve weather in the south bay. 91 in santa cruz. That is the place to be. 93 in mountain view. Expected to be a possible record there. 78 in pacifica. 78 in the sunset district. Santa rosa, sonoma, 98 degrees in napa. 70s along the coast. 90s in richmond. A record there. 90 hayward and inland spots, 101 in livermore and antioch. 100 degrees in san ramone. Looking at the accuweather forecast upper 60s to mid to upper 90s inland. Well see mugginess by sunday temperatures coming up next week but we wont have humidity. Not quite louisiana. Dew points into low 60s and we complain here. Coming up next predictions a new wave of exstinks is underway new palm trees so in this brought where are they getting large animals are showing biggest decline, saying if a big animal disappears it could have an affect on humans. There is someone to think about this. The absence of the animals. Its increasing abundance, then, they carry the part of you that is carried increases. Saying humans need to act now to protect habitats. Caltrans plants labs for palm trees on the eastern side of the bay bridge. 17 foot palm tree in san bruno. The tree will be planned tomorrow morning. This palm tree put in place this afternoon, a total of 33 trees will decorate the bay bridge. Caltrans is trucking in water to irrigate trees but the drought is about to change that by mid august, the new irrigation system will be in place. Well, more still to come here tonight on abc7 news at 6 00 just ahead rocket attack killed 16 nem a cool in gaza the question, who fired . Also, tonight a search for a man refusing to be treated for a drug resistant form of tuberculosis. What to do about an aging da the blood shed grew worse today in the war zone between israel and gaza. A United Nations school once considered a save haven was hit by a rocket today in gaza. 16 people were killed and 100, injured, many children. Palestinians blame israel for the attack. Israel says it could have been a hamas rocket 800 palestinians died in the war. Israel lost 32 soldiers and two civilians. We can say enough civilins and women, and children they have suffered quite enough in this conflict. It must end. Israel says it warned the school to evacuate because of fighting. School Officials Say theyre trying to leave when the rocket hit. Secretary of state john kerry is trying to get a ceasefire in place. Wreckage of a flight that disappeared over nornl western africa was found today heavy rain reported when the plane disappeared from radar over just west. The plane like this one, had 116 people on board, half french. Its the third commercial air disaster in seven days the plane went down but they dont have weapons capable of shooting down a plane. A man has ton tajis tuberculosis and hasnt complied with medical orders. He has tuberculosis. This is his last address. We went where the tuberculosis patient was last seen. He had tuberculosis. Management would not disclose information but several knew he was sick. I cant get near him at all. Small guy. Yes he used to sit outside. Angelina says she would see cruz and wave to him. Does it concern you . As far as, its very contagious. Yes. I dont know if owners say the people in that room. That was two months ago. I thought maybe hes going home. I dont know. Gone without a trace. That has hnl officials concerned. His disease may grow agn he may become contagious we dont know if he is or is not contagious. They cant find him. Authorities hope to find and contain him to ensure he gets proper treatment. We cant force the treatment but can force that he is not with other people to infect them. Cruz could face up to a year in prison for failing to comply with health officers. This year there have been 22 new reported cases in San Joaquin County were told most patients are in compliance. There is a 50,000 reward tonight for any information about a fourth suspect in last weeks deadly Stockton Bank robbery and chase, two bank robbers and a hostage were killed when the suspects got in a shootout with police. A mother of two was shot and killed when the surviving suspect used her as a human shield her sister is begging for help. Im making a plea to everyone of you in stockton, step forward with any knowledge of information bringing these crimin criminals down. Investigators are looking for a fourth suspect who dropped off the three bank robbers before driving away in a black Buick Century they believe someone in the Community Knows who the driver is. Stanford university is in the middle of an unlikely environmental battle centering around the aging dam and what flows from it over the bay. Less trees grow along the banks of the creek in palo alto but there is no water this time of the year. That is because a dam owned by nearly stanford keeps it from growing. Were at a critical turning point. Cary maclaine is with american rivers a National Environmental group named San Francisco creek and blames stanfords Searsville Dam. Its surprising people dont know there is a 65 foot dam in their backyard its on stanfords biological preserve. People cant see it. There is a birds eye view of the dam. Searsville dam was built in 1892, to supply water to the city. One problem, it wasnt drinkable. For 80 years the lake served as a source of fun and recreation. In 1970s stanford closed it because people ruined too many experiments today, the water behind the dam is used to irrigate campus lawns, and University Golf course the dam blocks creeks and streams above it. Its