- The sweltering "summer-like" heat predicted yesterday has set a new record high temperature for the day in San Jose and Monterey. San Jose has hit 90 degrees "just once" on this day in its 123 years of keeping weather records, and now, reports say that it's 91 degrees in downtown SJ right now. Monterey is at 90 degrees, a big jump from its previous record of 84 degrees, set back in 2002. [San Jose Mercury News] [CBS 5]
- Reportedly, Snap Inc. (formerly known as Snapchat) has "hundreds of thousands" of their Spectacles wearables stashed in warehouses, as they had "badly overestimated demand." [Consumerist] [Slate]
- Though they've made some major progress, firefighters are still working to fully contain some of the Northern California wildfires, which have now consumed 8,400 structures. [SF Business Journal]
- A witness in the Kate Steinle trial today provided testimony saying that the suspect, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, was "laughing" and "spinning" on the pier, potentially confirming his early statements that he was high on sleeping pills at the time. [SF Examiner]
- Supervisors in Contra Costa County are reportedly looking at potentially instituting a de facto ban on cannabis sales, pending a countywide cannabis tax initiative, which they expect will be on the November 2018 election ballot. [East Bay Times] [SF Business Journal]
- The Federal Aviation Administration is currently looking into yet another Air Canada "close call" incident at SFO. This time, a "radio problem" on an Air Canada plane almost resulted in a crash as a landing plane failed to receive "go around" instructions ordered by ground crew. Luckily, the controllers used a "red light gun" to warn the onboard crew, who safely landed later that night. [CBS] [KRON 4] [NBC Bay Area] [ABC 7]
- A new ballot measure could result in expanded rent control options for California cities. Called the Affordable Housing Act, it would repeal past limitations on rent control (e.g., rent control on homes and apartments built after 1995) and allow individual cities to set up their own regulations. [ABC 7]
- A member at an Equinox Sports Club on Market Street alleges that he was banned from the gym after reporting that he was sexually assaulted by one of the trainers. He's now filing a civil suit against the gym, accusing them of discrimination and retaliation. [CBS] [SFGate]
- Lawmakers in San Francisco are considering a "20-cent-to-$1 fee" for Uber and Lyft rides taken within the city. The fee would go to help fund the city's public transit options, like Muni. This is only one of a battery of other charges, fees, and taxes being considered by the city to help them rebalance their budget. [SF Examiner]
- Celeste Guap dropped her lawsuit against the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, following a judge's dismissal of a criminal case against another deputy. Guap was at the center of a sex scandal involving multiple officers, who allegedly sexually exploited her, according to [CBS].
- Elsewhere, an Oakland police officer had the conspiracy charges against him dropped, as Alameda County Superior Court Judge Kevin Murphy believes prosecutors didn't present enough evidence of an arrangement between the deputy and a sex worker where she would "provide sex to him if he tipped her off about police stings in a high prostitution area in Oakland in which she did business," writes [CBS].
- A man was arrested in Berkeley on Friday after he allegedly tried to burn a rainbow flag, then assaulted the Pacific Center for Human Growth volunteer who tried to stop him. [Berkeleyside] [NBC Bay Area]
- Today, Supervisor Hillary Ronen introduced legislation that aims to protect cultural districts and enclaves from displacement and gentrification, but advocates and representatives from those communities say there's still a lot of work yet to be done. [SF Chronicle]
- Stanley Roberts' latest People Behaving Badly report takes on motorcyclists and scooter drivers who take up space in the city's bike lanes. [KRON 4]
- Danville Bicyclists beware: reports say that there may be a serial hit-and-run driver stalking bikers, as officers believe two separate hit-and-run collisions (with two people seriously injured) could be connected. [CBS]
- It looks like a San Francisco federal judge might not move to block Trump's efforts to pull Obamacare-related healthcare subsidies. The judge said that California, along with numerous other states, have already taken steps to prepare for this eventuality. [KTLA]