Deeply affected. Santa cruz diving instructor Kristy Finstad is also among the 34 victims aboard the board. Her brother identified her in a facebook post. He said most likely she has transitioned to be with the good lord. Jobina fortson, abc 7 news. Of course as we get new information as its released, well keep you updated. You can download the abc 7 news app for instant updates. Time is 4 31. If you are joining us, well get a quick update of weather and traffic where you live. Here is a look at dorian, 1050 mileperhour winds. Its going to be the rain and the storm surge and coastal flooding that will be the big issue and even inland fresh water flooding as the storm churns up the east coast. It will be between brunswick and savannah as we head into the evening hours. It still hugs the coast. It may make landfall around wilmington, North Carolina, tomorrow evening as 90mileperhour category 1. It heads towards nova scotia as we head into the rest of the week. Well watch the southeast for a whole lot of flooding. Well take a look at our local forecast coming up next. Here is frances. Starting off with bad news on the peninsula, southbound 101, an Early Morning fatal accident. The investigation continues. This is in menlo park, southbound 101 past marsh. Looks like slowing in the northbound direction. Theres also road work in the area in both directions of 101 this morning. Here is a live shot of the san mateo bridge. Thats westbound traffic on the right. So things are still flowing well across the san mateo bridge and the bay bridge toll plaza just has some of the lanes backed up, the cash paying lanes to the end of the parking lot. Also a very foggy right across the golden gate bridge. Hurricane dorian is on the move, pounding florida with strong winds and bands of heavy rain. This is a live look from folly beach, florida. The camera is provided by surfline. Right now dorian is a category 2 storm, rath on grg a tarinas later this wee. The storm poses extreme danger to the southern coast. Flash flooding, strong winds, tornadoes, all that is possible. Hurricane dorian hovered over the bahamas forrer inially two days. You can see in the video here, it caused so much destruction. It submerged an airport and killed at least seven people. Urban search and rescue left for North Carolina. Youre now federal employee. Reporter teams prepare to head straight for hurricane dorian. The bags have to be loaded onto this truck. After that everyone stands in this line and they get a health screening. Moving these specialized teams is no easy feat. It requires a lot of equipment, tools and time. The deployed is for 14 to 21 days. We expect well see a fair amount of flooding depending on the storm itself. There may be wind damage, also, that will cause surge to be much more complicated. We also have a swift water rescue component. Each of the teams is bringing several inflatable rescue boats with us so we can perform rescues in the moving water. For many, the hardest part of the deployment will be missing home. My daughters fifth birthday is on sunday. Its always hard to be gone from family. Were going for a duty and our obligation to help those in need. The teams are taking aefr overnight flight to charlotte, get a few hours of rest before heading out into the field. Lisa amin gulezian, abc 7 news. People in the bahamas have a long road of recovery ahead of them and they need help. Disney is donating 1 million toward relief and recovery effort in the bahamas. You can help out, too. The donations can be made by calling 1800redcross. You can text dorian to 90999 and donate 10 that way or donate through our website, abc7news. Com. Its 4 34 this morning. Happening today, we could all be onestep closer to an all electronic toll system on bay area bridges. Amy hollyfield is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with details on what that might look like, amy. Reporter good morning. Big changes possibly coming to this bridge and other bridges around the bay area. They want them to be like the golden gate bridge. On that bridge drivers do not stop to pay the toll. They just keep on going. They pay electronically or receive a bill in the mail. Advocates say this will shave up to five minutes off your commute. They also think it will cut down on accidents that happen as cars try to change lanes at the toll plaza. They have their eye on making this change in 2020. Today they will take another step toward that goal. The mtc will be voting on a contract to make all seven state bridges in the bay area electronic. That will mean that toll plazas like this one will be going away. Thats a huge project, ripping them out and replacing them with cameras. It could take some time and theyre predicting the bay bridge would be one of the last ones, if not the last one to be converted, but a big step forward today toward making all this happen. Live from the bay bridge toll plaza, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Thank you, amy. Theres a lot of fingerpointing over a crane accident that knocked out power to 700 customers in lafayette. A crew working at the b. A. R. T. Station there knocked down a power line on monday. San leandro Crane Company says the crane operator was told to back up, but the person who told him to back up may not have seen the line. Three separate investigations now are under way. San franciscos plan to stop all pedestrian traffic deaths is under fire. Critics say its falling short also a sad return to school after the holiday for some east bay kids. Thieves leave them without critical learning tolls. All ha is coming up. Right now its 4 37. Youre never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. Good morning, mike. Good morning kumasi. 59 in berkeley orinda, fremont. Castro valley 57. Everybody else 60 to 62 degrees as we can see in oakland. Lo at. San franci novato. 48. The nights are getting longer, losing about 2 1 2 minutes of sunshine every day. South beach, 59. A lot of dense fog along the coast, the golden gate bridge, up into the north bay valleys. Thats going to stick and maybe get thicker in the morning hours. Mass transit, cool to warm and breezy north of the bay bridge. Peninsula, in the 60s through 9 00, cloud cover through 11 00. Sunshine and mid to upper 70s this afternoon. As far as the south bay, in the 60s through 9 00. O low to mid 80s this afternoon. For the east bay valleys, Still Holding on to a chance of 90s after starting off in the mid 60s. We have a slight chance of a thunderstorm today. Ill show you that coming up. First lets bring in frances and check on the hot spots on the road. There is one spot, an Early Morningat cra theres Road Construction on both sides of 101 at woodside and marsh. G, the work more than the crash. Also slowing through the Altamont Pass or getting there on westbound 580 out of tracy from 205. A live camera shot of 101 in san jose. Headlights are northbound. Thats 880 right across your screen. Notice headlights look good northbound and it does slow approaching marsh road through menlo park. A look at the eastshore freeway shows traffic getting a little bit more crowded for headlights moving westbound right now through emeryville, berkeley o ozempic® oh oh announcer people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7 and maintained it. Oh under 7 . announcer and you may lose weight. In the same oneyear study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. 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Some side effects can lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. I discovered the potential with ozempic®. Oh oh oh ozempic® announcer if eligible, you may pay as little as 25 per prescription. Ask your Health Care Provider today about onceweekly ozempic®. The worst of dorian continues to chernoff shore. You can see around titusville, winds at 44 Miles Per Hour. Those are the fastest winds at most of the reporting stations along the coast. Good news there. Theres going to be more wind damage especially water damage as we head deeper into the forecast. Here at home, our best chance of thunderstorms up in the sierra today, 88 in yosemite, 77 in tahoe. A slight chance around san diego and 86. 71 in monthry, 96 in sacramento. Here is a look at the tahoe weekend forecast. 78 on friday but only 67 after almost a freezing cold morning sunday. Abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. One of the major issues we fo s focused on is safety. Sadly San Francisco is on track to surpass last years traffic fatalities. 23 people died last year. 22 already this year. Thats despite a major effort to reduce pedestrian deaths. Lyanne melendez has more. Benjamin dean crossing the street in San Francisco died and his wife seriously injured in july when they were struck by a driver who police say ran a red light. His name was among the 2 read at the start of the meeting before Board Members of the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. Here is what came out of that meeting. In 2018, 22 of all traffic fatalities were people who were homeless. In the past five years, 26 of traffic fatalities were due to left turning vehicles. Police have acknowledged they havent kept up with enforcement because of the lack of personnel. Thats changing as traffic officers are being added. Ideally, yeah, we would triple or quadruple that number and have that number of officers out there that can just solely focus on the focus on the five violations. The five violations are speeding, failing to stop at a red light or stop sign, failing to give pedestrians the rightofway or yielding to pedestrians when turning. The citys goal is to get to zero fatalities by 2024. Here is what the sfmta says will help get there. More enforcement, calming left turn traffic, meaning adding features that would force drivers to reduce their speed when turning left. The city issing looing into limiting right turns at lights, extending timing at walk signals and making crosswalks more visible. In San Francisco, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Happening today as part of the effort to get drivers to slow down, San Francisco transportation officials will vote on funding for installing up to five speed radar signs. They kind of look like these. The signs display how fast drivers are going. Theyre not related to issuing any tickets. The locations have not yet been determined. In the east bay police home Surveillance Video will lead them to the thieves who stole about 60 computers from a school in oakland over the holiday weekend. Abc 7 news was at marcum elementary as workers replaced glass that thooechs broke to into a classroom. They yanked chrome books the computers were individually attached inside the carts. They had to break through that as well. They made off with 60 and broke at least a couple. You can see how scattered the screen is. This is the third school breakin in just a month. School officials alerted pawn shops to be on alert. The theft will cost the district about 10,000. Youreresttaing by with the look ahead. Its already wednesday. I like the shortened workweek for most people. Sutro tower, you can see how clear it is. There are clouds out there. Where they are, they are very thick, the coastal valleys along the north bay on 101. Watch out for that. You can see from the sutro tower that were pretty clear. Well have partly cloudy conditions today, seasonal temperatures. Cool tonight, partly cloudy will continue. The extended is becoming a little breezier and cooler with below average temperatures especially saturday. Lets go down to the south bay. A few 90s hanging on in morgan hill and gilroy. Otherwise we go from 80 in milpitas, los gatos at 87 degrees. 78 with sunshine and santa cruz. Thats your spread on the peninsula. Most of us in the mid to upper 70s. You look along the coast, cloud cover a little stubborn there, mid 60s. Near 70 in downtown San Francisco. South San Francisco and sausalito mid 70s. Weve got 90s around cloverdale, lakeport and ukiah. 73 at richmond, 76 at oakland. Hercules 82, fremont 80. Upper 80s to low 80s in in in bay valleys. Best chance of thunderstorms, in the sierra. Quieter during the mitt morning areas and then they fire up again. Mott much over us, but youll notice mid and upper level clouds. Monsoon moisture rolls through. Thats why theres an isolated chance of a stray thunderstorm. Notice the dips on friday, coolest weather, 60s, 70s and breezy conditions saturday. Frances . Back to the peninsula where were seeing heavy traffic on 101. A fatal crash in menlo park southbound 101 past marsh. Theres road work in both directions between woodside and marsh. Traffic is slowing down in the northbound direction from willow up towards marsh, mainly due to the construction and the road work thats going to be cleared by 5 00 this morning. There is a fatal crash still out there as well. In fact, we have a live caltrans camera near the shops. You can see the blinking lights, the southbound 101 off to the righthand shoulder. Traffic getting by well in the southbound direction. Northbound traffic is slow because the road work is blocking some of those lanes. Also, you may want to consider 280 as an alternate and avoid that 101 stretch. Here is a live shot of 280 in san jose. Thats highway 17 going right across your screen. Google is reportedly the target of a new antitrust probe. Here is a question. Would you pay 42,000 for a tv . Here is tech bites. In todays tech bites, google under investigation. Report says more than 30 state attorneys general are ready to look into googles potential Company Statement doe address the possible investigation directly but it says google helps create more choices for consumers. A massive new tv is hitting the market. Lg is selling an 88inch screen for 42,000. It offers support for apple air play, too. Google assistant and amazons alexa can be built in. Chools across the country say texting is out of control. In more cases parents are being blamed for the problem. The wall street journal found nagging parents text their kids prompting schools to ban the phones during class hours. Did you clean your room . Did you make your bed . What are you going to do with that much tv. A popular east bay park, what they say is contaminating the water. The chase center is t as started last night a streak of 16 games in 16 days. They won, so theyll try to do it again tonight. 70 the temperature at 7 07. Dropping down to 65 degrees. Grab a coat if youre headed to the coliseum. In the east bay theres a warning about the water at berkeleys aquatic park. Theres been an increase in e. Coli bacteria and its caught the attention of the city which is doing frequent testing of the water. So far berkeley has not figured out whats behind the increased bacteria. Signs have gone up to warn people to be careful. E. Coli is typically associated with food related resources. Officials say at least 58 people were busted at burning man this year. Over the past four years theres been an average of 47 arrests. The most serious crime this year was a sexual assault. One man died in his car reportedly from Carbon Monoxide poisoning. You dont even have to be inside the chase center to keep your eye on the ball this hisrtinstallation. It was officially unveiled yesterday outside of the arena. The spheres are the work of artist. They house refracting mirrors that can be a little disorienting when you wander through them. Thats half the fun. You cant help it. You find yourself wandering around and seeing the images. I think everyone in San Francisco and the people who visit here will enjoy the experience. There are five spheres in all. For the record they are 15. 5 feet tall, made from polished hydro form steel. No inflating necessary. Thats pretty cool. I want to check that out. Think we can later on . Lets just go. Okay. Lets do it right now. No need to finish watches and warnings from melbourne, florida, all the way up to salisbury, maryland. We can see the effects of dorian moving up the coast. As it hugs the coast, the best chance of heavy rain is going to of georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina from about taibbi island, georgia, do charleston, South Carolina. Up to 18 inches of rain on top of the storm surge. Well have massive flooding and minimal wind damage out of the storm. Frances . Well start off with a new crash in the vacaville area. This came in westbound 80 by the outlet at month vista. Its blocking one of the lanes. Traffic is slowing approach the scene. We see it moving at about 27 Miles Per Hour there. Also weve been following a fatal accident southbound 101 at marsh, past marsh in menlo park. Its on the righthand shoulder. Road work in the area. That should be cleared in the next five minutes. Here is a live shot. You can see taillights are southbound 101 at marsh past the accident. Northbound looking good right now. Thanks, frances. A warning from the food and Drug Administration about products dr rooi products derived from cord broad. They found they were using blood not related to donors and found thcompanys manufactueenistanda Southern California beef company is recalling 24,000 pounds of raw beef. American beef packers is based in chino. The company says a carcass was unintentionally released into production with other beef products before the lab test could get back. So far there have been no reports of illness. You should throw away the affected products if you have them or take it back to the store are where you bought it and get an income. Points with a purpose. Ben jerrys has a new ice cream flavor to help with criminal justice reform. They tweeted a picture of this and well show you that in just a minute. Hurricane dorian on the move. Next at 5 00 were going live to florida and timing out the storms latest path. New overnight, a deadly crash in menlo park. What chp says happened less than four hours ago. Ariana grande suing forever 21. Why shes demanding 10 million from the clothing company. A live look outside. Were taking a look at the golden gate bridge. A few cars making their way on the road this morning. Well have a full forecast in just a few minutes. 6, 7, 8 big dreams start with small steps. But dedication can get you there. Start saving. Easily set, track and control your goals right from the chase mobile® app. Chase. Make more of whats yours®. Good morning. 5 00 a. M. On this wednesday, september 4th. Youre never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. Here is mike with a look at the day ahead. Well focus on dorian. Winds 105 Miles Per Hour, category 2. Its moving finally about eight Miles Per Hour north to northwest before it will take the jog to the coast. Thankfully the heaviest of the thunderstorms are offshore. That is going to change as we head throughout the day
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