Clear. Just finally shut the flow of fwas right now. Reporter evacuated 19 buildings. Red cross showed up for assistance to people who needed shower or food. Hoping would be let back in pretty quick. I just walked out in pajamas. Reporter firefighters tell us one buildig that remains evacuated is where the explosion occurred. Home to eight people in need of housing. Red cross has been on scene and theyre receiving services at Mission District ymca. Not heard from pg e but expecting to any minute. Well bring it to you. Abc7 news. We sent a breaking news push alert about this leak at 11 50. If you want alerts, download at app and enable push alerts. Two of the victims of the deadly crash identified. And joe horn killed on interstate 80. Troy biddle and baiden biddle of the seattle area. Fred lowe. Driver was arrested on vehicular manslaughter, hit and was deliberate. Confessed to killing steinle, told me it was an accident. Jurors scheduled to deliberate to 4 30 today and then go home unless a verdict is reached before then. Well let you know. Abc7 news. Cornell, thank you. You can be first know when the verdict comes down, downloading free app and enabling push alerts. Also will be live on air and online at abc7news. Com. Current conditions, bright and sunny skies prevail. Rooftop camera, San Francisco and oakland. Emeryville, mainly blue skies as well. Upper 50s in napa, fairfield and livermore. Catching view of the International Space station across the sky in hour and a half, 5 46 p. M. , visible f minutes traveling southwest to northeast, looking like bright sky across the sky. Forecast coming up later. Its cyber monday and Business Experts are projecting this will be the Biggest Online shopping day in u. S. History. This comes on the heels of record 7. 9 billion in online sales over black friday and thanksgiving day combined. Elizabeth hur is live with more. As you mentioned, online sales started days ago but retailers say today is main event. Old navy and target are putting entire site on sale. Holiday shopping off to hot start cyber monday will not disappoint. According to National Retail foundation, recent survey found 7,800 million americans clicking to savings. More and more shopping online, sales exploding. Experts predicting shoppers spend more than 6. 5 billion, most ever spent in just one day. Keeping amazon employees working overtime this year with robots pitching in. Theyre part of the team. Dont replace anybody obviously but work really well allowing associates to be more efficient. Amazon is selling latest Voice Assistant echo at 20 off. Clothing, retailers Like Old Navy and kenneth cole offering 40 to 50 discounts. Beauty products also telling at 20 off at nars and benefit and 50 off at body shop. Thats not all. A little bit of planning can save you a ton. Hotels and resorts offering free nights and as much as 40 off bookings. As for the best deals today, electronics and toys, and most of the shoppers online were told can find them between 8 00 and 11 00 tonight. Reporting live in new york, abc7 news. Still have time. Thank you. Supposed to be a special ceremony at the white house. And i just want to thank you because youre very, very special people. President trump honors native american code talkers but not those words that created controversy today. Budget cuts, what could be on the chopping blork. Plus everything was just perfect. Wedding bells across the pond, big announcement from the royals. And big announcements here . Going to be slow. Bay bridge, thats San Francisco skyway, most folks look new controversy today at white house during event honoring native american code talkers. President trump brought up democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, describing her as insult he used on the campaign trail. Setting received quick backlash. It was event to honor native American World war ii heroes, known as code talkers, but president making this comment. We have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago, they call her pocahontas. Those in the room not sure how to respond. He was referring to senator Elizabeth Warren and not first time hes used racially charged nickname to describe the senator. President who often used insults to refer to critics started using the slur in the campaign. Pocahontas is not happy. Warren proclaimed possible native heritage in senate run but didnt provide proof. Citing family lore. Accused the president of using racial slur addressing the code talkers. Its deeply unfortunate that the president of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throughout a racial slur. White hose press secretary called it ridiculous to say use ftd name was racial slur. What most people find offensive is senator warren lying about her heritage to advance her career. Said it was racial slur. Response . I think thats a ridiculous response. Making the comments perhaps even more uncomfortable for the navahos, made in front of the portrait of Andrew Jackson who signed the removal act in his presidency. Faced with budget crisis, Oakland School board is poised to make millions of dollars of cuts inned middle of the schooll year. Plan to make protests. Reporter setting up for meeting set to begin at 6 00 this evening. As many as 300 nonteaching positions could be eliminated here in oakland. Although no decisions are expected tonight, parents and teachers tell us they will be here to express their anger. We dont think the cuts are necessary. Reporter teachers and parents rallying to protest millions of dollars of midyear budget cuts in financially strapped Oakland School district. Among the items, money for school supplies. School district is in a little panic, i dont think they have to be, not to the tune of 50 billion. Dont have the money to support the staff. Saying need 5. 6 million in cuts immediately, 11. 2 million next year and again next year. Making up for missteps of previous administration. Depends on who you ask but there have been areas where there was overspending in the past. Trying to rectify. Reporter and district claims 2 3 of the proposed cuts in Central Office away from the classroom, parents and teachers say reductions at school site should be offlimits. Chop from the top. District has a beautiful Central Office with a lot of fancy offices while our children are struggling for paper, pencils and supplies that they need. Reporter we were told the board was originally set to vote on some of these cuts tonight. But late this afternoon theres been a change and no vote will take place tonight. Though lots of discussion. Final vote is expected at the next special meeting on december 13th. In oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. B. A. R. T. And concord looking for developer to turn nine acres on monument boulevard into housing complex. Any proposal, margt rate and affordable units. Walking distance of downtown concord and the concord b. A. R. T. Station a couple of blocks away. Theres huge command for housing in bay area, especially housing that allows families to enjoy themselves and have disposable income to come downtown and go out to eat and still provide for families. B. A. R. T. Owns the property and concord, bidding for the Amazon Headquarters is looking for. Silicon valley. Contract for construction of the interstate 680 northbound express lane project. Widen the existing freeway and construct a new ninemile express lane. The section of 680 is consistently ranked as one of the ten most congested bay area freeways. Work will begin next year. With Holiday Shopping season in full swing, time to remember not to let your gifts become president s for thieves. Carolyn tyler shows us what San Francisco is doing to keep you safe. Reporter hundreds of thousands of shoppers are expected to pack San Franciscos union square over the next four weeks. And while the citys goal is to make the area clean and safe every day, theres a special emphasis during the Holiday Season. Most street cleaners are on here to make sure when you walk around, everything is clean. Trash cans will be clean. Reporter taken away the disruption of the central subway construction, placing moratorium on the work until after the first of the year. Streets closed off for winter walk plaza, beer gardens and holiday performers. Hear less construction and more voices of family and kids and people excited to run through here. Reporter more Police Visibility on the streets and s strict are interacting with shoppers. Police chief William Scott is offering common sense tips. Including dont be distracted, look up from cell phone. If you use atm, shield p. I. N. Numbers, dont leave valuables visible in your car and if you put them in the trunk change your parking spot once you drop off a load of gifts. Sometimes people out to do harm will watch you put packages in the car and then you go resume shopping and come back and things are gone. Reporter mayor lee says Holiday Shopping expected to generate 6 million to the citys economy. Carolyn tyler, abc7 news. And the Union Square Business Improvement District pays for 33 staffers to help visitors and clean the streets every day. They hire even more in the holidays. We lucked out on the weather for holiday weekend. Hope you had great time with friends and family. Perfect for thanksgiving and then much needed rain. So thankful. And this week off to fine start. Sunny finish as well. Live doppler 7, we have sunny skies right now. Pleasantly cool and crisp afternoon right now. Mt. Tam, blue skies. Chilly overnight and cold in inland valleys, lows to the mid30s in some spots. Hours likely over the weekend. Habit of weekend showers. Rainfall totals, some locations were quite wet, north bay, and some not quite so san jose and palo alto. Oakland had. 63 inches of rain over the weekend. Snow in the mammoth mountain, ten inches. There will be more. Kirkwood seven. Temperature around the bay area. 55 at half moon bay. Upper 50s most locations near the bay. Inland, 60. There are mild spots out there. Wont last long. Temperatures are going to drop sharply several places tonight. North bay, 36, napa 37. 39 at antioch and morgan hill at 36 in the Early Morning hours. 12hour planner, clear skies all through. 7 00 tomorrow morning bundle up. Inland areas in 30s. Between noon and 4 00 p. M. , bright skies and temperatures up into mid60s inland and bay but dropping sharply after sun sets. Around 50 or lower by 7 00 p. M. Highs in the south bay, low 60s on the peninsula. Upper 50s to near 60 on the coast. Downtown San Francisco top out at 61. North bay, 62 at santa rosa. Near east bay, and inlandinlandd similar range. 62 in concord, 64 in 7 day accuweather forecast. Over the weekend, clouds thicken and breezy on saturday with showers. Lingering on sunday. Ranking one on the impact scale. Fairly light. Then sunny again next monday. We can handle that. Thank you spencer. One word that sums up 2017, diction. Coms pick for word of the year. Plus could be considered couple of the year. This beautiful woman literally tripped and really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. A big, big announcement in london. Prince harry and Meghan Markle are now engaged. British royal and american actress expected to marry next spring. Reporter ladies, hes off the market. Taken by Meghan Markle. Everything is perfect, beautiful woman literally tripped and fell into my life. Reporter looking madly in love. Were a fantastic team. We know we are. Reporter thrilled and happy. Tell reporters this beautiful day. Shows off the ring. One stone from botswana and two from princess dianas personal collection. Its perfect. Reporter for harry, a heartfelt tribute to his mother, the peoples princess. Its days like today i miss having her around and being able to share the happy news. But with Everything Else going on shes with us. Im sure shes with us. Reporter official announcement from father prince charles. Harry says actually engaged earlier this month. William and kate followed up with congratulations. Family has been great, j uft had a nice time getting to know them and progressively helping me feel part of not just the institution but also part of the family. Reporter in 2016 began dating prince harry and wasnt until this fall that made first public appearance at invictimous games in toronto. Holding hands and kissing, making headlines around the world. She chooses me, i choose her. Whatever we have to tackle together or individually will always be us together as team. Reporter grabbing headlines again. Big news. Brits are excited and lots of details yet to come about what the couple will do. But wedding is expected next spring. Molly hunter, abc news. Great response today, patrick adams, one of the stars of suits tlt tweeted, she shed she was just going out to get milk. Mikayla holmgren. First woman with down syndrome to compete in miss minnesota. Didnt move to the final round, her talent and charisma didnt go unnoticed. Won two awards, spirit of miss usa and directors award. I felt really happy. Glad im here for usa pageant. Proud of my parents and so proud of myself. And she should be. Audience gave holmgren, a huge standing ovation and Kaylee Wright was eventually chosen as next miss minnesota usa. One senator started day off with apology. I know ive let a lot of people down. The cloud of Sexual Harassment allegations and misconduct that continues to loom over the here are the stories making headlines at 4 30. Gas leak and explosion caused about 100 people to evacuate homes in San Francisco. Explosion damaged a home on Mission Street near interstate 280. Nobody was hurt. Most evacuations lifted an hour ago except for the building where the explosion occurred. Jurors in trial of the man accused of killing kate steinle wrapping up for the today. We havent heard a verdict has been reached so jurors will resume deliberating tomorrow. Tom perez is slamming President Trumps pocahontas comment referring to senator Elizabeth Warren during event honoring native american code talkers. What trump displayed was embarrassment to our values. Agencys director has stepped aside and theres a question of who is in charge. Live in washington with more on the developing story. Serena. Its a case of whos the boss at governmental agency. Two interim directors, two introductory emails, one agency tasked with protecting consumers in the cross hairs. Mick mulvaney showing up monday for the job, doughnuts in hand. Only problem do you believe you have legitimate authority . Yes i do. Wasnt the only one, Leandra English also walking in. Sent this email to staff signing it acting director. Talk about awkward welcome, mulvaney sent his own email telling employees to disregard english. Dualing directors from dualing appointments. Designated english as his replacement as called for in the bill that created the agency. Few hours later the president named Mick Mulvaney using vacancies act as authority. Its not clear who would have authority to initiate action for settlement to negotiate with Financial Institution to go after someone. As of now, hard to imagine a scenario other than business of the agency is stalled. Mulvaney made no secret of distaste for the agency. Called it a sick, sad joke. Its extraordinarily frightening. Some of us would like to get rid of it. Top consumer watchdog a brain child of senator Elizabeth Warren, saying on twitter that trump has put a cloud of incertainty over the agency by attempting to override doddfrank. Should take no action until decided in the courts. All right a lawsuit filed by english to prevent president from appointing acting director until the courts can rule. Abc7 news. Minnesota senator al franken went back to work today following allegations he groped women while posing for photos. Apologized again, says he doesnt remember the incidents hes accused of but you have to respect the womens experience. There are some women, and one is too many, who feel that i have done something disrespectful and thats hurt them. For that i am tremendously sorry. Franken says hes let a lot of people down and vows to work to regain their trust. State assemblymanassemblymanassn negra is leaving office immediately over allegations. Denies them but said would stay in office but now saying hes decided to resign. Holding first public hearing examining the handling of Sexual Harassment complaints. President trump will not campaign for Alabama Senate candidate roy moore accused of Sexual Misconduct by nine women. Spoke on condition of anonymity. He all but endorsed the candidacy and attacked democratic opponent doug jones and did so again yesterday on twitter. A new push by President Trump to win support for senate tax bill. Met with five members of the Senate Finance committee on board with the gop plan. Tomorrow visit capitol hill to lobby republican senators. Tweeted early today that some changes may be coming to the republican plan. Mr. Trump and Senate Leaders looking to win over holdout senators in effort to pass the package by end of the year. A volcano is erupted in bali. Sparked evacuations of hundreds of residents and closed airport now for second day in a row. Elizabeth hur. Reporter ash, volcanic debris, island of bali is now a danger zone. Prompting authorities to order a Mass Evacuation and shut down the islands main airport. Leaving tens of thousands of stranded tourists scrambling to escape. Theres nobody to ask questions. Flight canceled at 10 00, went and talked to them. They told us they werent able to help us. Reporter according to authorities, anyone within a six mile radius of mt. Agung must brace for possibility of bigger eruption. Despite that warning, 100,000 People Living within the zone, many decided to stay, taking refuge in nearby shelters, nearly 500 flights now canceled, travelers trying to get out by land or even sea. Some taking ferry to java for outbound flight. Now waiting to i guess go home. Officials say the plan is keep the main airport closed until Tuesday Morning but could change as they monitor the volcanos activity. Abc news new york. Dictionary. Coms 2017 word of the year is complicit. Choosing for involved in illegal or questionable act and having partnership or involvement in wrongdoings. Lookups increased nearly 200 over 2016. Saturday night live aired a fake commercial starring Scarlett Johansson peddling a perfume called complicit. Later told the news she didnt know what it meant to be complicit. New threat for north bay. First fires, now runoff, the crisis creating problems for the ecosystem. Im michael finney, coming up next, scoping out credit card skimming twice before your information gets taken. Im spencer christian, beautiful sunset coming our really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Hey. Time now for ask finney. Thats 7 on your side. Asking on twitter. Card skimming device. Its been a huge problem in last few years, especially at atm machines and kbas pumps. Thieves gotten good at making these hard to notice. Try to use card readers that are less of a target. Welllit areas and those closest to attendants. Give it a tug or shake and look for signs of tampering. But putting them inside machines. Ive started shaking them. Have you . Im concerned about packages delivered by regular mail with holidays and all that theft that takes place. Can i leave mail carrier a note on where to hide them . Postal service will place your packages wherever you would like them to be placed but you have to give them heads up. Go online to usps. Comusps. Comusm tracking number, got to do it for each package. Tell them where to leave it, back door, near the bushes, theyll do it. Package intercept, you can change destination in transit. Maybe ill have it sent to work. Midflight . Interesting. Victims of the north bay wildfires continue to reach out with assistance questions. Sheri asks, will fema cover whatever the insurance does not . Fema doesnt write blank checks. Dont want to give that impression. Good news, lot of help is available. Fema critical need assistance grant, 500 you get immediately. Second is worth up to 34,000. Grant, you dont have to pay back. Individuals and households program. Dont pay back any of that money. Underline that. Small Business Administration offers two loans. Borrow up to 200,000 to repair or rebuild home and additional for property including the car. Help with underinsured items. Interest rate peaks at 3 , depends on how much you make. Anyone severely impacted by wildfires qualifies to apply. Take care, fill out paperwork and keep checking back. Thats whats important. If you have a question, video, share on social immediate with a with askfinney. And facebook and begin with live doppler 7 again. Sunny skies across the bay area. Clear and chilly overnight, cold in some spots. North bay, mid to upper 30s. Inland and 40s on the coast. Tomorrow another sunny and bright day like today. Reaching to low or almost mid60s in mildest locations. Low 60s around the bay and inland. Accuweather sevenday forecast, string of sunny days through friday and clouds return over the weekend. Saturday and sunday. Breezy saturday, lingering showers and bright and sunny next monday. Weekend showers seem to be a thing these days. Not causing too much trouble. This years musthave hot gadgets. Whats on the list this year. Plus weve done a lot to prepare for this day. Amazon is hard at 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 weaving your own shoes. By out of flax. Or simply adjust your thermostat. Do your thing, with Energy Upgrade california. Amazon is bracing for recordbreaking cyber monday sales receipt. Working hard to get orders toy you are doorstep. Takes us inside the madness at amazon fulfillment center. Reporter these items in tracee will make history today. Part of what is expected to be busiest cyber monday ever. Employees say theyre ready. This is my fourth cyber monday here, definitely exciting day. Weve done a lot to prepare for in day. Reporter popularity of shopping on this day hasnt changed but methods have. Customers dont even have to look at computer anymore, just say what they want. This method is expected to be bigger than it was last year. Voice shopping. Simply as easy as saying, alexa, i want to buy whatever, and she finds something and you say yes if you want it, its on the way. Reporter last cyber monday processed 64 million items and say these employees are working quickly. Imagine them fulfilling the order by the time it takes to sing a christmas carol. Items from receiving to shipping by the time you finish singing the 12 days of christmas. Reporter good news is you have more than 12 days but a lot of the deals are only good today. Use time wisely. Amy hollyfield, abc news. New kick start the Holiday Season. What are hot gadgets on sale . Lexi seve eates with the look at musthave items. Home assistant, speaker thats popular these days. Couple of opgs. Smart speakers and voiceactivated speakers are hot tickets this Holiday Season. But can get them smaller and cheaper. Google home mini and echo dot do the same as larger speakers. Ask for weather, set reminders and things like that. Cheaper at 49. But cyber monday around 29 each. Significant discount. I saw that roku express. This one is going for around 20, normally retails around 49. So the roku express is streaming stick. Has pretty much the same functionality as more expensive roku devices. Watch netflix and hulu and connect to the tv services. Doesnt have 4k, ultrahigh video and doesnt have voice remote. Other rokus you can speak to and search on tv. Staring at einstein. A lot of fun. Imagine amazon alexa or assist na assistant in a robot. Can i ask a question . Takes a little while to turn on. Now hes on. Coming to life. Here we go. Just one moment while i try to go online. Can i ask a question . Professor einstein, what is is the pieiythagorean theorem. Almost done, i need a moment to make the connection. Connects to wifi, then do a bunch of things. Hes online. Say hey einstein or hey professor. Hes a little verbose. Thats so popular these days. But want something easy to operate and fairly inexpensive, fit the bill. You can see its small, fits in palm of your hands. Most drones are difficult for firsttime fliers, you have to use controller and phone and difficult to know. But this is flown with gestures. Take off from palm of your hand, rotors spin and lifts off and wave your arm around and follows you. A lot of fun. Take photos and videos making a symbol like this, photo capture symbol. Lands in the palm of your hand and ready. Were out of time but amazon fire 7. Normally 49, its now 29 on amazon. Stocking stuffers. Thanks for coming in leslie. Appreciate it. Tomorrow is giving tuesday. Focus on that then. Talk about donation records being shattered. Great information. Well see if the donation records are shattered on giving tuesday. 92nd street y in new york city and United Nations foundations credited with launching this in response to the spending on thanksgiving. Video from giving tuesday. Org. Donations last year, 180 million, 12 times the year before. Remarkable increase. Spirit of the season in full swing at white house. First Lady Melania Trump tweeted this video of the president ial residence decked out. 53 trees with 12,000 ornaments, 180,000 feet of lights and nativity scene. Tweeted a message, wishing you Merry Christmas and joyous Holiday Season and hosted children from nearby military base to do arts and crafts for holidays. New video of the capitol Hill Christmas tree arriving this morning. Spruce from montana. Tree lighting set for december 6th. New crisis for homeowners in the north bay. All the materials in the houses and made them up either in the air or in the soil. What is being done to stop threat to ecosystem. New at 5 00, rude awakening at levis stadium, man arrested in stunt at 49ers game. Hacked. Linked to three men im worried. I have this medical bill. Oll, huh . 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. Coming up tonight on abc7, 8 00, cma country christmas, 10 00, the good doctor and abc7 news at 11 00. Great lineup. Might be logical to assume that after the fires, water is good. And it is, but in some cases, runoff is toxic. Wayne freedman explains, scientists from Sonoma County noun profit trying to save streams also studying them. Reporter even after the fires, parts of Sonoma County, if you look close, nothing has changed. Few feet back, burned trees. Fire advanced to stream bank or few feet back, remains of the lane. Mike sees a relationship between the remains of home and sonoma creek below. Its part of this community. Reporter and pressing issue thanks to soot and ash. Time bomb of pollution waiting to travel to a place to do a lot of damage. Close to the creek. Reporter sonoma ecology center, might think of them as second responders. Treating creeks and streams after the rains. Homes leave more than ashes and soot. Compounds and heavy metals. All the stuff that people no longer have, didnt just disappear, its a in different form in place where it can enter the environment and poison animals and plants. Reporter filled with chinook and steelhead and california shrimp. How much will the ash damage this ecosystem . These samples like others heading for analysis by the state. Will be impact, expect lower numbers of steelhead and some damage from the fire. Reporter hopefully the results will be temporary. May hear results within two weeks. Sonoma county, abc7 news. We love telling you this. Recent benefit concert raised more than 238,000 for north bay fire relief efforts. Photos of the november 18th concert headlined by counting crows, posted on the green Music Centers twitter account. Went to north Bay Fire Relief Fund at credit union. More than thats abc7 news at 4 00. Abc7 news at 5 00 starts right now. Everyone in town is devastated. Outpouring of support and sorrow, north Bay Community does what it can after four members of one family are killed. Gas explosion in San Francisco blows out windows. Drone pilot arrested speaks with abc7. His stunt that got attention of thousands of football fans. Watching, waiting and walking the halls. Bagged lunches on the menu as we await the verdict in the kate steinle murder trial. A family is u. S. Erly ripped apart. Car crash kills two fathers, two sons and leaves a teenage driver at a cross roads. Im dan ashley. And im kristen sze. That was on i80 in san pablo this weekend. Among those killed, father and son of wellknown napa family, deeply rooted in the community and in the sports. Dion lim went to napa to meet with friends and family who say the horn family is nothing short of extraordinary. Reporter no matter where you turn in napa community, horn family touched lives of everyone they came in contact with. Redwood middle school where the youngest attended classes, grieving along with a community trying to stay napa strong. As youngest in the family, unbelievable personality, life of the party, much like Kindred Spirits there. Reporter sentiment echoed by people in napma who knew joe horn and daryl horn. News of passing almost too much to bear. It was just really shocking. Quiet and speechless. Reporter
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