Film, i love you, daddy. You divorced me while i was a loser so you lost. Now removing him from the night of too many stars special and taking down past projects from its on demand services. Netflix announcing it is canceling plans because of his unprofessional and inappropriate behavior. And the times reported, several times c. K. Reached out to the women to apologize. In a statement he said, after a long career of saying anything he wants, he will now take a step back and take a long time to listen. Live in los angeles. Abc7 news. Thank you. And you can read louis c. Kshss entire statement, posted on our website. Abc7 news. Com. Were learning over the last decade, the California Legislature has investigated at least 30 sexual allegations. Since 2007, 14 in the senate. An average of three a year. The last times did its own investigation and found 31 investigations. Information provided by the senate and assembly did not offer details of those probes. The times reported the settlements were up to 1 million. A car slammed into a gas pump and exploded into flames. Pictures and video show a car on top of the gas pump with fire all around it. This happened at 2 30 this afternoon. Firefighters quickly got a handle on the dangerous situation. Turning to the weather. Take a look behind us here. It looks spectacular. To earlier in the day, a wet friday morning. The umbrellas were out in San Franciscos financial district as people tried to stay dry in the Early Morning rain. And abc7 news found this little guy out looking for some puddles. Where are they . Right there. It was enough to bring out some umbrellas. Puddles . Not too many. But he found some rain. Having some fun. You can see the sun is coming out in the north bay as well as the east bay. The question is how much more rain can we expect . And will it be raining this evening . Theres not a lot left to this system. Still a few scattered showers. Down in the south bay, unsee moving through santa cruz mountains. Toward mt. Hamilton, we have some showers, isolated showers. So that pat learn continue. Meanwhile, arrival totals very impressive. Over an inch and a half. Los gatos is the only place where they got significant rain. And 2 3 4 inches. The storm impact scale will be with us the next few hours. I ranks 1. Isolated showers in the south bay. Generally under. 500 of an inch of rain. And taking us into the evening hours. Notice the showers go away and even the clouds that remain will be thinner and thirn, giving us a bright start to the day tomorrow. Ill give you a look at the rest of the weekend. What a show. Banding together for north bay fire victims last night. The musicians performed at the benefit concert. Metallica closed out the fivehour, free marathon fundraiser. All the performers played for free to be a part of the fundraiser and there was a personal connection. The flames stopped at the front gate of the metallica guitarists home. Four weeks ago, i was a victim of the fire. Thank you, thank you, thank you for everyone. They raised more than 15 million. It will help fire victims get their lives back to normal. Sometimes a bike helps just as much. On seminary drive, firefighters were rolling out donated bikes. Both new and used on to trucks. The bikes will be handed out to adults and children with addresses listed asteroid on the official damage inspection report from cal fire. Need for helping people who lost everything. It is the least we can do. After going up and seeing it, we wanted to do something. This was a way to give back. It will be delivered tomorrow. In the months since the sonoma napa fires, another part of bay area has seen an upknick their winerelated business. Reporter it is a busy friday afternoon. The wineries overall in livermore say theyre seeing a 20 bump up in business. Not just the immediate aftermath but a sustained bump in business as a result of people redirecting here. I think there might be an overall ghang the perception of this area. Reporter he said their phones rang off the hook in the first two weeks the north bay fires. For the planned corporate and personal events. But the increase in traffic isnt letting up. This is time of year when holidays start coming. And you see people coming with people out of town. A lot of them, wine club members. Were seeing a lot of people we havent seen before. Reporter during the fires, cruise ships diverted there. I can tell you the contractors that i work that do the short excursions were very pleased. The biggest thing that i heard was that this wine country bent overbackward to help them out. And gray line tours is saying, oh, this is a great option. I dont think it is a replacement of groups going to napa and sonoma. It is in addition to napa and sonoma. So it is a new unexpected Business Opportunity for livermore valley. The wineries here say theyre seeing more out of state tours. Theyre seeing more california Northern California day trippers. And they certainly hope it continues. Reporting live from livermore. Abc7 news. Thank you. Residents at a San Jose Mobile Home Park are gathered. A tragic fire killed three people. Chris nguyen has more on how a bay area entrepreneur came to the rescue. This afternoon, a bitter sweet gathering. A family trying to put the past behind them with a little help from their neighbors. Im happy for them. It left many [ crying ] telling abc7 news her life never be complete again. The loss of her daughter, so fresh. Despite that, she carries on. A community doing everything kit to show support. To be able to help a family start a new life. Start a new future. And hopefully build something. Todd and his wife cindy the coowners of manufactured homes. They heard about at the tragedy and decided to build a new hole for the family. Worth nearly 270,000. Turning over the keyes this afternoon, the Councilmember Raul said it is a testament to the spirit of san jose. For the family, this is hitting really close to home of the to the heart. It will continue to be tough on them. Paw fresh start for this family. Looking ahead to brighter days. And the red cross went door to door throughout the neighborhood to make sure that every mobile home had a working smoke detector. Bits to get a bit easier to travel the back road if oakland to moraga. Crews began installing a pre fabricated bridge today. The old one washed out in last winters storm. Once it is done, the approaches will be constructed. Caltrans is scheduled to bring down the fine two remaining piers tomorrow morning. This is two weeks ago when three piers were imploded. The blasting entered expected to start around 9 30 tomorrow morning. They are finishing a year ahead of schedule. Saving taxpayers nearly 10 million. It was an unusual chase in San Francisco. Police tracking a Mountain Lion right in the city. Well tell you where it was found and whats next for this animal. I think we might be fighting a losing battle. Its not big cats. Wild pigs is what were talking about. And honoring americas veterans. What you can do all weekend long on. And how about all weekend long . Not having to fight this kind of traffic on a friday. Oh, boy. Headed to the bay bridge toll plaza, westbound, it is very slow. It is not even raining there. Eastbound, we cant really tell. It looks okay. I was in that a couple hours ago. hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, tomorrow. When can we do this again, grandpa . Well, how about tomorrow . Ask your doctor about entresto and help make tomorrow possible. Ask your doctor about entresto accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth. If that isnt a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president , then what has our government become . Im tom steyer, and like you, im a citizen who knows its up to us to do something. Its why im funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. A Republican Congress once impeached a president for far less. Yet today people in congress and his own administration know that this president is a clear and present danger whos mentally unstable and armed with Nuclear Weapons. And they do nothing. Join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing whats political and start doing whats right. Our country depends on it. This is the second confirmed sightings in San Francisco proper in the last 100 years. Officials believe that this Mountain Lion most likely migrated up from the peninsula. Another animal story now. Dozens of homeowners are at their wits end about some unwanted visitors. Those are wild pigs. On the hunt for food in sanra moe moan. I think we might be fighting a losing battle. Sydney smith never intended to relandscape her he front lawn. Some wild pigs did it for her. We had grubs. Only pigs tell you you have grubs. Check it out. Here they are digging for grubs or subterranean insects. What looks like snow is really green grass being shredded by the pigs as they hunt for food. You cant hear them at all. The rainy soil is making it easy to dig and bringing the pigs out in force. And believe it or not, this is not the only place where the landscape is reportedly delicious. In the Norris Canyon estates. They have struck 20 properties. Pretty good size pigs there. They can get to 400 or 500 pounds. They said the Homeowner Association held an emergency meeting on what to do about the renegade pigs which live and breed in nearby open space. Back on west side drive, the hoa will use an ecofriendly means to degrub the area. Hopefully that will do it. We dont want to go to extreme measures. It is not the first time. The wild pigs were here in 2013 and now theyre back. Now to a day to honor our veterans. The official holiday is tomorrow. Since it falls on a weekend, many are observing it today. One event that made its return to richmond. Reporter it is veterans day with a twist. There will be the usual lunch and speeches from politicians. Hope these boots they provided for different agencies will arm veterans with information will help them improve their lives. Theyre here. They can go around and learn about Job Opportunities that are here. Mental Health Service thats might be here. Supportive services for the families that might be here. Reporter chevron organized this event. The veterans we spoke with say they appreciate the help navigating a complicated process. Im always looking to see what kind of benefits i havent discovered yet. Reporter they say it feels good to be recognized. Being a vietnam vet, it took me 50 years to hear the words, welcome home, veteran. It was an unpopular war. And we didnt receive a welcome home when we came back. So its good. Reporter the army veteran henry torres says all this help is great but hes also grateful just for the chance to visit with all these people. The veterans, theyre doing some kind of social events. I go swimming three times a week and i walk around three times a week ooflt than that, my social life, you might safety i like affairs like this. Reporter they said this is somewhat of an inaugural event. It used to happen years ago and then it stopped. And they decided to try to bring it back. In richmond, amy hollyfield. U. S. Marines raising the flag on iwo jima. A petition drive by bay area veterans asking arrest warship to be named after him now has the attention of the secretary of the navy. It was truly a miracle that he got this picture at 1 4001 40 a second carrying a camera that probably weighed ten pounds. It was big and bulky. Were going to post a link for you on abc it was put there as a tribute to his brother who was a u. S. Marine. The marine corps is marking its 242nd anniversary today. The National Parks service asking to you get outside in honor of veterans day. All California National practice, waeg their entry fees. That includes yosemite, muir woods and many, many more. Lots of freebies for veterans. We have a list of discounts and 1440s meals to haircuts. But i saw a rainbow today. I saw one, too. I couldnt find my pot of gold. Here i am with my golden friends. I wouldnt read into it. Heres a look at live doppler 7. It looks like, the showers will get out before veterans day arrives and well have bright skies. Right now, lingering skies. Mainly in the south bay. Some in the santa cruz mountains. Some have shifted eastward. Right now, most of the bay area is looking at skies like. This lots of beautiful cloud formations and blue showing through as you can see from the roof top camera. We have current readings in the low 60s at San Francisco, oakland, mountain view. 59 degrees at half moon bay. Check out this view of the soon to be setting sun. Looking westward from emeryville. It looks like a painting. We have low to mid 60s. 59 at livermore. And one more live view from our south beach camera. These are our forecast features. Well see showers endsing and cooler overnight. A brighter and drier day tomorrow. Veterans day. But rage returns sunday night into monday. Just a brief break from the rain. Overnight, partly to mostly sunny skies. A little chillier. The lows will drop into the low 40s. As we look at our day planner, a few lingering clouds. Mostly sunny by noon. Even going into the afternoon. It will be dry but relatively are, quickly after the sun sets tomorrow night. 60 at half moon bay. 62 in oakland. Down south, san jose, a high of 66. Now lets move to our storm impact scale. Late sunday into monday. It ranks one. There could be some isolated down pours. A third of an inch of rain. A trace to about a third. Well see the rain filling in. Southward and eastward. That pattern continue swoos the overnight hours. All parts of the bay area as we go into the evening commute. And the rain will continue into the afternoon hours. Probably a pretty good measure of rain from this system as we project rainfall totals at the end of the day on monday. Well be looking at maybe up to about a quarter of an inch. A little bit lower to the south bay to the north bay. Up to three quarters of an inches. Once again, bright skies. Dry and pleasant conditions tomorrow. Veterans day. The rain arrives sunday night into monday. A break on tuesday. Another little rain maker on wednesday. And then partly cloudy skies for the remainder of next week. All right. Thank you. Finally, breakfast at tiffanys will be more than just a book and movie. Is it real or just a prank . The question taking little debby fans by storm on social media today. And how about a look outside . On the 101, leaving the silicon valley. You are going to be in bunker to bunker traffic. avo but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. Noninsulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk. Victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill. avo and for people with type 2 diabetes treating cardiovascular disease, victoza® is now approved to lower the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. And while it isnt for weight loss, victoza® may help you lose some weight. avo victoza® is not for people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. 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It looks like the force will be with us for many years to come. Disney ceo bob iger says there will be a trilogy. Star wars the last jedi, will direct the new films. He also announce that had a live action star wars tv show will be coming to disney as he subscription streaming service. Possibly by the end of abc owned by disney. Breakfast at tiffanys. They are opening a restaurant called the blue box cafe. And it is decked out in tiffanys signature egg shell blue color. It does include breakfast but as you might expect, it is not inexpensive. A waffle goes for 29. One waffle . What about two waffles . Well, tea and finger sandwiches costs you 49. It is the setting for the 1961 classic film with audrey hepb n hepburn. Fans of little debby confused following a tweet by the popular snack maker. They posted this, saying one of the popular treats will soon be gone. Which one . A christmas tree, thats a seasonal thing so maybe they get rid of that after christmas. So far the company hasnt confirmed the purpose. Full steam ahead on the gop tax plan. The push to get it approved by the end of the year. We must ensure that all play by the rules. President trump calls for fair trade during a speech another 2am stroll, huh . Im worried. I have this medical bill. Dave, you have anthem and they have people to talk to who are empowered to help any question you. Is, is he okay . Real people . Living and breathing. Hopefully not breathing like that. For all the things that keep you up at night, Anthem Blue Cross has a solution. Here are the stories making headlines at 4 30. The Comedian Louis c. K. Admitted that Sexual Misconduct claims by five women are true. He said he used his power irresponsibly and apologized. Abcs world news tweeted that a new Homeland Security morning for airlines. Theres now a threat of weaponized drones. The terror bulletin says they could be used to target commercial aircraft as well as air cargo. And this tweet criticizing the tax plan. Well hear from both at 5 00. Republicans hope to plan a merged plan by the end of the year. Bringing they wil together is a problem as the clock ticks down for that december break. As the house voted their tax bill out of committee the senate giving their own bill. Pomp and circumstance. The treasury secretary celebrating the unveiling. A great day, moving in the right direction. The center piece of both bills, tax cuts. There are some major differences in how the senate plan keeps seven tax brackets. But changes the Tax Threshold for each. And it would keep deductions for medical expenses and student Loan Interest but gets rid of all state and local tax deductions. The senate has a year long delay in the Corporate Tax rate. Corporate will see it as loss. Both add to the deficit. 1. 5 trillion is what would be added to the deficit over ten years and theres a real concern about what that would mean in the long run. The white house says the tax cuts are ball trickle down economics. Workers spend more and we see the hole trickle down through economy. The wealthy get the biggest break. According to a new analysis of the house version, in ten years, one in four americans would end up paying more taxes than they do now. As they work their through differences, no promises from republicans. I dont know if anyone can guarantee anything about anyones income. I cant guarantee that. House republicans would like the see their bill passed next week. Senate republicans have it on the committees schedule for monday. Bringing those two bills together and reconciling the difference cosmetic prove to be the biggest problem as they only have 16 working days left before that christmas break. Larry . It seems theyre trying to move this in a similar fashion to the health care repeal. How likely given the timetable are they to get this done . Well, already theyre seeing a little push fwrak Senate Republicans. Mike lee, the senator from utah, and marco rubio from florida, issued a joint statement saying they had problems with the tax credit. Senator jeff flake from arizona, all of these are republicans, he said he has concerns with how much it could increase the deficit. The Senate Republicans are going to be their problem like it was for the aca attempt at repeal. All right. Well see how it plays out. There will be no formal meeting between President Trump and Vladimir Putin at the asia cooperation project in viet natural. The two shook hands as the leaders attended the meeting gathered for a group photo. The president began his visit by talking tough on economic issues. Specifically trade. He clald his administration will not tolerate trade abuses and countries must follow the rules if they want to do business with the u. S. We cannot achieve open markets if we do not ensure fair market access. In the end, unfair trade undermines us all. Vietnam is the president s stoked last stop on his 11day, fivecountry tour. Mr. Trump is weighing in on the sexual allegations regarding roy moore. The president said he believes a mere allegation from years ago should not be allowed to destroy a persons life. But if true, moore should step aside. The statement comes a day after the Washington Post reported, allegations made by lee corfman who claims he initiated inappropriate sexual contact with her when she was 14 years old and he was age 32. Moore denies the allegations. Now to an explosive court case pinning an olympic hopeful against her own coast. It is part of a 2020 internal. Bailey gibson claims she was coerced into a sexual relationship with her track and field coach craig carter at the university of arizona. Carter has been charged with assault and stalking. And said he he had a consensual relationship. What does the University Say about that . Do we hear from them . Tonight, you will also hear bethe university of arizona. Did it do enough . How did it handle the situation . Was it involved . Well lay out the case for you of how this whole sordid saga unwound. Tonights 20 20 special. Track and fears. At 10 00. A mass of arctic air that blasted through the midwest is headed east. Millions of americans are preparing for temperature in the single digits. Reporter record shattering cold, blistering wind and snow, all thanks to a frigid air mass that has pummeled the midwest. My teeth are cold. Reporter in wisconsin, it is so cold, this boat was frozen in place. And a tiger at the local zoo taking a snow shower. White icy roads and whiteout conditions in michigan sent drivers sliding into ditches. This car flipped over. The farther we go, the worse it gets. Reporter in chicago, theyre clearing off walks. I think its funny. I really do, after having all this nice weather, were getting winter. And this. Earmuffs, it is really cold, really cold. The arctic chair is bearing down on the northeast. In vermont, they have heavy machinery rolling already. In new york, there are winds so fierce, they toppled six stories of scaffolding. The wind comes around this corner. It comes straight through. And it knocked the whole thing down. How about a blast from the past . The effort to bring the old downtown field back to one community. 7 on your side michael finney. You buy a new car and it is a lemon. What do you need to do . Im spencer christian. The rain is tapering off. Some beautiful cloud formations. Ill have the forecast coming up. hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . If you have Heart Failure symptoms, your risk of hospitalization could increase, making tomorrow uncertain. But entresto is a medicine that was proven, in the largest Heart Failure study ever, to help more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading Heart Failure medicine. Women who are pregnant must not take entresto. It can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren. If youve had angioedema while taking an ace or arb medicine, dont take entresto. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high potassium in your blood. Tomorrow, tomorrow. When can we do this again, grandpa . Well, how about tomorrow . Ask your doctor about entresto and help make tomorrow possible. This person won the Academy Award for Short Documentary and became the first lesbian at the awards show to thank her partner during the acceptance speech. Her films range in the topics from Nuclear Weapons to news facing the lgbt community. A San Francisco resident, she leaves behind two sons and a wife. She was 60 years old. Time for some consumer news. Michael finney answering questions regarding facebook, twitter, what happens at a recycling station when a valuable item is found . I have lost my wedding ring and im almost positive it happened while drying my hands with paper towels in a public restroom. There may be some good news. So sorry that this happened to you. If it ended up in a mixed recycling facility, they are sorted into materials by hand, machine or both before being sent to the manufacturers who make it into new products. So there is a small chance your ring could have been found. Contact your Building Management where you think you lost your troing get information on their specific waste hauler. Then call that local Waste Management or Recovery Service and ask about their policies and procedures when finding valuable items. They have very specific policies at this place. They dont want someone finding an item and pocketing it. They tend to go away but you have to ask for it. A sonoma viewer asked, is there any exhibition for those who lost items house in the Storage Units destroyed by the north bay wildfires . Yes, good news. The answer is yes ffrlt a person renting a storage unit has coverage, no problem tat all. The sba will replace up to 40,000 in personal belongings. Homeowners can borrow up to 200,000 to repair or replace. Payments can be spread out over 30 years. Check with fema. They have up to 34,000 in grants for personal property. Good to know. Stanley asked, i recently purchased a used car and it has been in for repairs twice. If the car is still covered by the manufacturers warranty, it may be a lemon. Four repair amounts, two are for safety, or more than 30 days if a repair shop, and then you have a lemon. That means a manufacturer pretty much has to guy car back. Will if the car is out of warranty, there probably isnt very much you can do. You can file a complaint with the dmv or file a lawsuit. Heres what to do. Ill put a link to the dmvs office and see if theres anything you can do. If you have a question for me, you can record a 10 to 15second long video. Use the ask finney. Thank you. Well show you our rainfall is tapering off. We have a few widely scattered or isolated showers. Even those are winding down. Things are start drying out. We have more rain coming our way late sunday into monday. Well have another system ranking one on the impact scale. Mainly light showers. But there could be some brief isolated down pours. The north bay will get the heaviest dose of rainfall. Most of the locations will receive less handle the a third of an inch. And our rain chances are fairly substantial. 30 late sunday and 80 chance. Then a dry day on tuesday. Another 80 chance on wednesday and then dry toward the end of next week. And here it is. This is accuweather sevenday forecast. Wee have a dry day tomorrow. Mainly sunny skies before the rain comes in sunday night and monday. And then we get a little dry interval there before the next rain comes in. Thursday and friday will be mostly sunny. The trials and tribulations of being class mom. 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Get medical help right away if you have trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, extreme drowsiness, swelling of your face, toueue, or throat, dizziness, or confusion. Ask your Health Care Provider if youre tresiba® ready. Covered by most insurance and medicare plans. Tresiba® ready if youre a parent, you know, being the parent of School Age Kids can be stressful. But those who have traveled down road can often find joy and humor. This is the author of a new fictional novel, class mom. You know her name. Laurie gelman, wife of gelman, the executive producer. And youre a mom. So great to have you here. Thanks for having me. Before i even got ahold of this book, i went on amazon. I read the excerpts and i love the heroine. Older mom, gets recruited to be class mom for her son. Walk us through some of her journey. Some of her encounters and challenges. This was her second time through as class mom. She now has two daughters in college and shes starting with max in kindergarten. Shes very marinated, as we might say. Shes been around the block. She said im doing it, but im not taking any crap from anybody this time. Im doing my thing. And she writes these very acerbic snarky emails. My way or the highway in a funny way. The real thing is she wants everybody to read the emails and get involved. Can i give the viewers a sense of the snarky . This is when shes requesting supplies for an ice cream party. She says, this is a wonderful opportunity for all of you to get into my good graces by volunteering early and offer to bring something, often, as always, response times will be noted. Absolutely. Did i that when i was a class mom. At the end of the year, i gave a 25 gift card to the person who gave the quickest responses to my requests and it ended up being the woman the out of office supply. Shes so busy, she would never come to anything, you always gave the First Response so there you go. You drew this character jan dixon from your own experiences. And kelly ripa said dont do it. I was so excited. Guess what . They asked me to be class mom. She said why would you say yes . And i learned four years later how right she was. Once you say yes, they cant stop getting you to say yes to things. And you realize youre the only person available to do anything. Besides the absurdities and the challenges and the politics of being class mom, just mom in gentle when youre active in a classroom. What do you think are the greatest joys . Your girls are grown. Its such an important job. What i want is for people to relax and take a breath and enjoy that they get to go in the classroom with their kids. They get to see them in another environment. Closer access to the teacher. If youre a mother who is working and maybe cant be the class mom, just answer the emails. Thats all we ask. Answer the stinking emails. If they ask to you bring something, just say you cant. Within 24 hours . Within 24 seconds would be nice. And youll be signing this. I was so excited. It is so beautiful. I cant wait to go. Can i get a signed copy before you go . Sure. Got 26 . Of course i do. Do you hear gelman laugh about it . Thank you so very much. It is a joy having you here. Lets do it again soon. On your second book. You got a pen . When you show up tomorrow, many people are thinking, you might want to turn to technology for ideas. Marcy gonzalez has a look at the top tech gifts of the season and some are for right here in the bay area. The latest in technology could be the greatest gifts under the tree this year. New innovative gadgets on the market in time for the holidays. They solve problems they didnt think existed. Or you didnt know you needed one so you got one. For the exercise enthusiast, fit bit going far beyond pounding steps with its new smart watch, the ionic. And head phones can be a big hit. From wireless models to these from aftershocks, worn outside the ears. And for some indoor ideas, amazon has unveiled new models of the echo. With the digital monitor to another version that takes photos and videos. Alexa, show us the echo look. It is built in lighting and Depth Sensing camera lets you blur the back ground. And taking it to a bigger screen, the duo computer looks like 27inch mirror. But it is a touch screen with artificial intelligence. Albert, how do i tie a bow tie. And experts say the time to start crossing some of these high demand tech gifts off your Shopping List is now. The temptation is to wait until friday. Youll get great deals, which is awesome. A lot of these do sell out really quickly. Abc news, los angeles. Amazon is expanding its presence in whole foods stores. Amazon popup stores will appear inside some whole foods locations across the country. Shoppers can try out amazon devices and learn about Services Like prime and prime video. Making the old new again. Is there a downtown here . The effort to bring back downtown to the city of santa clara and why it is so important to some residents. Right now, whats coming up at 5 zpl 00. How the Police Department connects to a high profile murder case. And it is a tax scam. Blunt talk pr House Minority leader nancy pelosi. The fight over tax reform comes to the bay area. What it means for the rest us. And from cooking to caramels. Do you know the way to downtown santa clara . Probably not. Because there isnt one. However, some passionate residents are determined to create one. 54 years after the citys original downtown was bulldozed. David louie shows us what some st. Clairans are envisioning. It was a very good mix of retail, mom and pop shops, restaurants. Thanks to archival photos, he is describing the downtown santa clara his parents and grand parents told him about. But urban renewal levelled the downtown area which once had 120 shops and restaurants and the theater. They bulldozed all eight blocks. They were hoping the get a local retailer. Lets say an anchor who will remain nameless. But it starts with an m. The Old Post Office was saved. The rest is a parking lot. A core group of eight residents has ignited a drive to create a new downtown. People are starting to come back to the downtowns. I think were getting so alienated with electronics that we want a Central Place to come to. And see other people and interface with other people. Dan has drawn sketches of what he envisions, including a replacement for the old santa clara theater complete with the sign out front. The group reclaiming the down, spaekts big turnout. When a City Council Committee will hold a public hearing to discuss ideas. The group says it whats that 1,800 members, including more than 1,000 on facebook. An indication of a growing grass routes movement. To restore it to what it was. Something unique. Right in the footprint. What could be downtown santa clara, abc7 news. If you want to attend a meeting on down, it is next wednesday at 6 30 at the city council chambers. Thanks for joining us for abc7 news at 4 00. My roommate called me and said hey, there is a Mountain Lion prowling around. There sure was. It was caught and captured. A scary scene. A car engulfed in flames at a gas station. Tears of joy in san jose. A home builder makes good on a promise. What some say a landmark deal that could turn the port of oakland into the biggest hub on the we have coast. Sky 7 showing you police perched on roof tops in the Diamond Heights neighborhood for hours today. They were not searching for a bad guy or even a person at all. All the commotion was over wildlife in the city. A Mountain Lion that made itself right at home within feet of the apartment complex. Thanks for joining us. This was fourth sighting of a Mountain Lion over the last week in San Francisco. Take a look at this map. On november 4, a mt. Lion was captured. One was outside the presidio. One was spotted later that same day. Today a Mountain Lion was spotted and tranquillized on Diamond Heights boulevard. Do you think officials know if this was the same Mountain Lion spotted earlier this week in the city . Reporter thats a great question can. Fish and wildlife officials will be looking into that. Theyll be comparing this Mountain Lion to the surveillance images. What they are telling us is that this is an 82pound male Mountain Lion. 18 months old. Nobody was injured and this Mountain Lion is being tagged and returned to the wild
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