i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. good n >>> bay area bridges become targets. the bay bridge just one where protesters want to make it impossible to ignore their message. >> i'm laura anthony in oakland where today black women spoke out against police violence. >> i'm spencer christian. our next heat wave is only days away along with rising fire danger. i'll give you a closer look. >> i'll wade freeman in sonoma valley, these are petite grapes that will never see a glass. growers are leave them on the vine. that story coming up. >>> this is where the rubber meet the road. protesters target bay area bridges in the latest act to draw attention to racial and social injustice following the lack of charges in the breonna taylor case. good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm ama dates. >> and i'm larry beil. building a better bay, it's one of the five core

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"world news tonight with david muir" is next. we appreciate your time. >> for all of us thanks for joining us. joining us. see the unfair money bail system. he, accused of rape. while he, accused of stealing $5. the stanford rapist could afford bail; got out the same day. the senior citizen could not; forced to wait in jail nearly a year. voting yes on prop 25 ends this failed system, replacing it with one based on public safety. because the size of your wallet shouldn't determine whether or not you're in jail. vote yes on prop 25 to end money bail. and the veterans that never quit on their team. when being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher... ...our agents put in the time and legwork for you, ...so saving on auto insurance is easy. because saving a little extra goes a long way. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. i'm to help california's 19 most vulnerable. over 24,000 homes were destroyed by wildfires in less than two years. too many of those victims are also hit with a sudden tax hike after

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" with david muir is next. we appreciate your time as always. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. for sandhya patel and all of us, thank you for joining us. we >>> tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. president trump before the cameras late today. what he said about his own words recorded by bob woodward. the president defending those recorded comments in which he admitted to downplaying the dangers of the coronavirus, telling woodward he knew the virus was deadlier than the flu, and that it goes through the air. you breathe the air, that's how it's passed. different from what he told the american people, and jon karl pressing the president. how he responded. >>> the horror unfolding tonight for so many families. the deadly wildfires exploding. the death toll rising tonight. the staggering new images coming in. towns incinerated. a father driving through the flames, trying to save members of his own family. authorities then finding the bodies of his 12-year-old son and the

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"world news tonight with david muir" is next. >> for all of us here thanks for joining us. we'll see you again >>> tonight, the cdc's surprising letter to local health officials. be ready to distribute a coronavirus vaccine by november 1st. all states put on notice, prepare for a possible vaccine just before election day. the letter raising concerns the trump administration may be trying to politicize a vaccine. tonight, growing outbreaks raising concerns at schools and college campuses. images of hallways packed with children, and now, an even bigger problem. some colleges sending infected students home. health officials say that's exactly what not to do. >>> pandemic politics shaping the race for 2020. joe biden zeroing in on president trump's handling of the outbreak, calling it a failure, including the lack of a national plan to reopen america's schools.

i'm david muir. good night. i'm to help california's 19 most vulnerable. over 24,000 homes were destroyed by wildfires in less than two years. too many of those victims are also hit with a sudden tax hike after their forced to move. it's wrong. prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims and limits taxes on seniors and severely disabled homeowners. join firefighters and emergency responders in voting 'yes' on 19. >> the fire did what it wanted to do. somehow we got well, he was oney ones. there were scenes of destruction all over sonoma and napa counties as the glass fire continues to rage out of control. good afternoon and thank you for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> the glass incident fire raging in wine country has nearly quadrupled in size. it has burned 42,000 acres in napa and sonoma counties. there's no containment. at least 68,000 people have evacuated. cal fire says more than 100 buildings have been destroyed. s witit latesthe thes well as w evacuations. steph? >> reporter: well, the fire is currently moving northeast of where we are right

. >> "world news tonight with david muir" is next. we appreciate your time. >> thanks for joining us tonight. >> our next newscast is at 6:00 p.m. see you then. propit provides property tax mostfairnessble. for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 who've lost their homes to fire. and seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. yes on 19. >>> tonight, the bombshell recordings. president trump in his own words admitting to downplaying the coronavirus. early on, calling it deadly, and saying privately, "it goes through the air, that's how it's passed." the president giving 18 interviews to bob woodward, telling woodward in early february he knew the virus was much deadlier than the flu. but later, telling the american people the virus was like the flu. and then in march, he told woodward privately he knew it's not just infecting old people, revealing it's, q

i'm david muir. good night. >>> all right. let's take a live look outside. after a month of spare the air days, the streak ends tomorrow. look at the blue skies. the air quality has begun to improve. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze. >> i know you remember it from a week ago. it was orange. all these shots were taken of the bay bridge at 10:00 a.m. on the respective days. spencer christian joins us on whether blue skies will last. >> yes, they will last a little while. and weren't you impressed? we're seeing around

i'm david muir. good night. >>> we asked the people what happened here in sonoma and what they're doing about it. their answers are coming up. >>> i'm dan noyes. a bay area college student apologized today for killing an italian police officer. i'll explain why it is not a confession. >> i have a look at bluer skies and cleaner air. how long will it last in abc7 news at 6:00 begins now. >> our health is one of the most important issues when it comes to building a better bay area and it has been compromised by the spread of the cyrus. california seems to have turned a corner. >> we are moving forward in seeing a decline in the rate of spread in transmission of covid-19. >> as you just saw, the number of newly diagnosed cases is below average and itti

david muir will be right back here tomorrow night. please stay safe. good night. >>> tonight, no break from the smoke but we may soon get some relief. and a traffic stop that ended with multiple police officers going to the hospital. and we're following developing news in los angeles after two deputies are ambushed. the message bay area police departments are passing on to their officers. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. it started with a traffic stop on the golden gate bridge. then an officer and a tow truck driver began feeling sick. now investigators are looking into whether they along with other first responders were exposed to fentanyl. j.r. stone joins us now live with the latest. j.r.? >> reporter: well, i can tell you, seven people have been transported to the hospital for possible fentanyl exposure. at last check, everyone was in stable condition. that is certainly good news right now. i want to stand out of the way. off in this distance, this is the area closed off near the marin headlands. it is has since opened in the last two hours. the highw

i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. and from all of us here at abc news, good night. >>> building a better bay area, for a safe and secure future. this is "abc7 news." >> it will start getting cooler. you just watch. >> i wish science agreed with you. >> president trump during his visit to california today, taking issue with the idea that climate change is behind this summer's massive wildfires. good afternoon. i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm larry beil. the president walked into a chorus of californians who are claiming california is getting hotter because of global warming. the president disagreed. laura anthony was in sacramento for the president's visit. >> reporter: as air force one touched down outside sacramento, a cut through the haze and smoke that has plagued california for weeks. it was clear, though, that this visit, at this time, by this president, was itself an illustration of a strange new normal.

i'm david muir. good night. >>> this is an abc news special. >> we will make america great again. >> we're in the battle for the soul of this nation. >> with so much on the line, the wait is over. donald trump. >> at no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties. >> joe biden. >> we are as a nation, what we stand for, most importantly, who we want to be, that's all on the ballot. >> face-to-face. the main event starts right now. the first presidential debate, live from case western reserve university and cleveland clinic in ohio and new york city. now reporting, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. >> good evening. welcome back to our special coverage of this first presidential debate.

i'm david muir. and the veterans that never quit on their team. when being a fan gets tough, and stretching your budget gets even tougher... ...our agents put in the time and legwork for you, ...so saving on auto insurance is easy. because saving a little extra goes a long way. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. >>> beat the heat but be careful. from a high surf warning to the risk of cyrus, there's a lot to watch out for this weekend. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. tracking the surf, high fire danger, heat, and the air quality. i'll have the latest weekend forecast coming up. >> we would anticipate a lot more remote workers. >> if working from home has made you think about updating your place with new appliances, you may have to get in line. demand is radically outpacing supply. >> well, take your pick. whether you're headed to the north bay, living in the east bay, or spending time in the south bay, you are going to feel the heat this weekend. >> no doubt about it. temperatures will make a view like this, the beach at santa cruz, lo

. ♪ ♪ >> from abc news world headquarters in new york, this is "world news tonight" with david muir. >>> good evening. it is great to have you with us here on this thursday night. we have several developing stories as we come on the air. we'll begin with the fallout from the grand jury decision in louisville, kentucky. no police officers charged in the shooting death of breonna taylor. one officer charged with wanton endangerment for recklessly firing into breonna taylor's neighborhood's apartment and what about the bullets that hit her and about the officers that came there in the first place. the 26-year-old emt was shot and killed in her apartment in the middle of the night. protesters taking to the streets in louisville and cities from new york across the country to los angeles and most peaceful and then the headline that broke overnight that in louisville two officer his been shot and tonight a suspect in custody and authorities will not say if that suspect was a protester. in seattle tonight a police officer is under investigation for taking his bicycle right over the head of a

i'm david muir. hope you to see you back here monday. >>> just in time for weekend another spare the air alert has been issued. more smoke expected to drift into the north bay and the ip land east bay on saturday. air quality likely to be unhealthy for sensitive groups. sorry, gang. here we go again. >> good afternoon. >> let's give you a live look. it is clear now. but it could get worse tomorrow. let's begin with meteorologist with a look at what you can expect. >> it's going to get worse for sure. we look at air quality right now. all in the green. which is good air quality. heading into san francisco andik i want to show you the forecast. good air quality now that continues until midmight

i'm david muir. . >>> a grand jury in kentucky reach a decision in the breonna taylor case. a former police officer has been charged but not in her death. he faces three endangerment charges for firing into a neighboring apartment. protesters filled the street of louisville expressing their disappointme disappointment. in some instances, the protests turned violent with periodic clashes with police. the grand jury's decision hit home for kentucky's attorney general. >> certainly understand the pain that has been brought about by the tragic loss of miss taylor. i understand that as a black man, how painful this is. and i've seen that pain on miss palmer's face. i've seen that pain in the community. >> good evening. thank you for joining us

david muir back tomorrow night. i'm tom llamas in new york. stay safe. good night. >>> it's hot. yeah. it's not. we don't have the luxury of having air-conditioning units at home. people all across the bay area head to beaches and parks trying the beat the heat. >> good afternoon. than thanks for joining us. thousands of people around the bay area head to beaches the try to cool off. you can see from santa cruz the san francisco just how busy the beaches are. >> we oakland s

i'm david muir. i hope propit provides property tax mostfairnessble. for disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 who've lost their homes to fire. and seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. yes on 19. >>> it's been half a year -- march, april, may, june, july, august, september. six months since 7 million people in six bay area counties started to shelter in place. >> it feels like forever. alameda, contra costa, sclaerl, san mateo. >> six months ago today, we had no way of knowing what our community and our country was facing and still is. >> this is not the time to panic. >> people are just panic buying. that's what it amounts to. >> no chicken at all. they don't have eggs. >> only a few rolls of paper towels left. as far as toilet paper, you can see it is completely gone. >> we're going to take you to a live look sho

i'm david muir. i'll see you right back here to i'm to help california's 19 most vulnerable. over 24,000 homes were destroyed by wildfires in less than two years. too many of those victims are also hit with a sudden tax hike after their forced to move. it's wrong. prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims and limits taxes on seniors and severely disabled homeowners. join firefighters and emergency responders in voting 'yes' on 19. >>> the glass fire is burning out of control in the north bay. within the last hour, officials said the blaze has tripled in size. >> the laboratory is gone, the offices are gone. the wine's all destroyed. >> a number of homes and businesses have burned, and thousands are still threatened. >>> and new video just in, showing flames engulfing buildings as the luxury meadowwood napa resort. >>> now from abc 7, live, breaking news. >> we just learned the glass fire tripled in size today. thousands of people are evacuated, and we're getting in new video of homes and wineries that have burned down. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm dion

i'm david muir. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. and from all o if you're hungry and you want a great deal, the $6.99 super slam is your perfect meal, it's buttermilk pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon and hash browns. it's enough breakfast for dinner and it's as good as it sounds. see you at denny's. dearand with summer here,these energy bills are rising. together, we can save energy and money... by taking steps to stay cool while using less. keep safe and keep it golden. >>> we're getting used to this view, even though we don't want to. our record setting streak of spare the air days could last for an entire month. >>> i'm spencer christian. after 28 consecutive spare the air days, we see signs of improving air quality. i'll have details. >> it is self-evident that climate change is real. >> governor newsom and president trump face to face and going head to head on climate change and the wildfires. >>> building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is "abc7 news." >> from the beach to our local bridges, there are no cle

david muir back tomorrow night. i'm tom llamas in new york. stay safe. good night. >>> it's not too often you have triple digit temperatures in livermore this time of year. what people are doing to cope. >>> i'm spencer christian. another day of dangerous heat brings high temperatures to the bay area. up to 112 degrees and now fire danger is elevated. i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. abc7 news at 6:00 begins now. >> announcer: building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is abc7 news. >>> it is labor day, but most bay area beaches are blocked. it's to stop the spread of coronavirus, but it means no relief from the record-setting heat, and it feels like there's nowhere to go to escape the smoky skies as wildfires rage up and down the state. good evening. i'm ama daetz. >> i'm larry beil. the weather conditions are not just uncomfortable. they're downright dangerous. our record setting streak of spare the air alerts keeps going and going. after three consecutive weeks, we have at least two more days of poor air quality and you

i got asked by david muir a question if i was asked to shut everything down, i took that as a generic question, am i going to follow the science? i'm going to insist and i insist now without any authority, that every responsible person in this country when they are out in public, not in a cohort they have lived with because they know they have not spread it, husband or wife, etc., that they wear a mask and keep socially distanced. you can take a mask off when you are 12 feet, 15 feet away. i would follow, i would really make the case. by the way, when i find folks talking about my freedom -- i talk about patriotism. why do you wear a mask? to protect your neighbor. to keep someone else from getting sick and maybe dying. i call that patriotic. this is the united states of america. every generation has made sacrifices to help others in moments of crises. >> you suggest there would be some kind of a federal mandate about masks, and now you're saying -- >> no. what i suggested was, i would ask every person in authority -- there is a question whether or not the president under the constitu

whether they're changing strategy, a week ago, joe biden said -- told david muir on abc news that he could win it from his basement. then they said he's going to start campaigning in the battleground states after labor day. and then he shows up a week before labor day. why is that? the polls are turning. a few days ago he said he wasn't going to kenosha wisconsin and now he's going to kenosha. why? he has a 3.5 lead there in the polls and a new poll cam out that says that trump is up. so hiding in the basements is not working and he has to come out and address the violence. >> dana: i'm sorry to cut you short, jessica. we have to go. next, nancy pelosi taking heat for getting her hair done indoors when nobody else there was allowed to do so. we're going to talk about that. (ringing) - hey kaleb, what's up? how you doing? - hey, i'm good, guess what, i just had my 13th surgery. - really? i just had my 17th surgery. - well, you beat me. - well, i am a little bit older than you. - yeah it's true. how are you doing? - i'm doing good. i'm encouraged by seeing how people are coming togethe

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i got asked by david muir, if i was asked to shut everything down, i took that as a generic question, am i going to follow the science. i am going to insist, and i insist now without any authority, that every responsible person in this country when they're out in public or not with a cohort that they have lived with because they know they haven't spread it, your husband, wife, et cetera, that they wear a mask. that they wear a mask and keep socially distanced. you can take a mask off when you're 12, 15 feet away. but i would follow -- i would really, really make the case, and by the way, when i find these folks talking about my freedom, i talk about patriotism. why do you wear a mask? to protect your neighbor. to keep someone else from getting sick and maybe dying. i call that patriotic. this is the united states of america. every generation has made sacrifices to help others. in moments of crisis. >> you suggested there would be some kind of a federal mandate about masks. now you're saying you encourage people. >> no. what i suggested was i would ask every person in authority, there'

i got asked by david muir a question if i was asked to shut everything down, i took that as a generic question, am i going to follow the science. i am going to insist and i insist now without any authority, that every responsible person in this country, when they are out in public or not a cohort they have lived with because they know they haven't spread it to their husband, wife, et cetera, that they wear a mask. that they wear a mask and keep socially distanced. you can take a mask off when you are 12, 15 feet away. but i would follow, i would really really make the case. by the way, when i find these folks talking about my freedom, i talk about patriotism. why do you wear a mask? to protect your neighbor. to keep someone else from getting sick and maybe dying. i call that patriotic. this is the united states of america. every generation has made sacrifices to help others in moments of crisis. reporter: but you have suggested there will be some kind of federal mandate about masks. now you are saying -- >> no, no. what i suggested was i would ask every person in authority, there's a

. >> david muir, we're going to have to do it on "gma" tomorrow, you'll have to do it on "world news tonight" tomorrow night. what is the lede of this debate? >> as we were going into this tonight, george, we were talking about the level of exhaustion in this country. we have to remember that the backdrop for this entire debate is this coronavirus pandemic, 200,000 american lives have been lost. the economy, millions on unemployment and people are exhausted. they want to know, when is this going to end? who has a plan to help guide the way through? and you have to wonder if tonight did anything to further that argument or put people at home, and that's what we think about here as we do the news, did it put anyone at peace about the future of our country and the immediate months and years to come in how he navigate our way out of this moment? we talked about president trump, this was a unique opportunity for him to come in and say, here's what i will do over my next four years, i'm not sure we heard a lot of that tonight. joe biden had to come in, we said, no unforced errors, don't ge

i was asked by david muir if i was willing to shut everything down. i took that as it a generic question am i going to follow the science. steve: follow the science. wait, that's not exactly what he said. he said he would go ahead and do a shutdown, brian. brian: yeah. listen. >> if you are sworn n january and we have the coronavirus and flu combining which scientists have said is a real probability would you be prepared to shut this economy down again. >> i would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. that is the fundamental flaw of this administration's thinking to begin with. in order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing and people employed you have to fix the virus. you have to deal with the virus. brian: so maddening, he is flip flopping all over the place and barely speaks. flip-floppings running ads say he would shut down the country. i don't think many in the country want to be shut down again. talk about a mask mandate. urging governors