Neighborhood . You can see the winds on the ferry building. The flags unfurled because of the winds. Waking up mild this morning. We knew this would be the wildest morning. Upper 50s to mid 60s at 7 00. It will warm quickly at noon, 70 at the coast, 80 elsewhere, then the breeze kicks in. We stop in the upper 60s at the coast, low to upper 80s just about everywhere else. Back to the 60s and 70s by 7 00. Its almost here. We will turn it over to frances and talk about that morning commute. Were tracking this accident in vallejo on eastbound 780 gle glen cove. A lot of cars off to the righthand side. One of the cars took out some guardrail. Traffic is a little bit read. Well keep an eye on that. Northbound 101 in sunnyvale has been jammed about 11minute delays, some road work at fair oaks. Maybe take city streets or 280. Heres a live shot of 680 in walnut creek. We had a lot of slowing earlier. There was some road work, it also looks like there was report of an accident earlier. Southbound are the taillights moving towards highway 24. Bay bridge toll plaza, just a minor wait for some of the lanes. Backed up towards the parking lot. And the drive time across the san mateo bridge and the dumbarton bridge is green as well as the richmondsan rafael bridge. Happening now, gas prices are rising in the bay area. It will get worse over the next week. Here are the average prices for a gallon of regular gas. 3. 97 in San Francisco. 3. 85 in oakland. And 3. 82 in san jose. Abc 7 News Reporter jobina fortson is live at a gas station in daley city to explain what is causing the spike. Good morning. Check out the numbers here. We have 3. 69 for regular gas. 3. 99 if youre looking at super all the way down there and it looks better than some other cities in the bay area. But prices are expected to spike. Heres a look at some other gas stations in the east bay. We took this video yesterday. At least one case gas was over 4. Bay area drivers have seen prices increase by 7 cents at the pump. According to an analyst at gasbuddy. Com california is experiencing two problems now. First, last week there were production problems at four california refineries including the valero refinery in benicia. Yesterday a new federal report pointed to a big drop in gasoline inventory on the west coast. While its unlikely anyone will see outages as a result of, are drawing down. Experts say those in Northern California including the bay area may see a total impact of 15 to 30 cents per gallon, thats an increase, in the next 7 to 12 days. For now reporting live in daly city, jobina fortson, abc 7 news. New concerns about passenger safety on uber. The Washington Post reports the company has a three strikes policy which allows drivers to keep picking up passengers even after theyve been accused of crimes. This morning, uber is responding to new allegations in the Washington Post. An investigation by the newspaper claims the company is putting its own interests ahead of riders. According to more than 20 current and past employees interviewed. The article details one case of a driver accused of sexually assaulting three separate riders and still being allowed to drive. Uber says complaints from riders who allege a crime by a driver are sent to a special investigations unit. Generally people are receptive to the kind of feedback that you have about suspected offenders as far as if they should stay on the application or not. Reporter lily flores was an investigator for uber for two years. She says she left the company because of the number of Sexual Assault cases she had to investigate. Im talking about Sexual Assault all day, every day, and its not easy. Reporter flores says theres a policy at the company of not reporting purported crimes to police. Even when they get confessions of felonies. It was our job to, you know, just take the report for what it was and not hand that off to police. Uber says the reason for not reporting alleged crimes to police is to protect the alleged victims, saying if those victims want to go to police, they can and uber investigators will cooperate. Uber calls the Washington Post investigation inaccurate and the company says its made changes and invested in safety technology. We overhauled this system, and we created something new, and a lot of the policies, a lot of the things that you see in that Washington Post article and that were spoken about are outdated. According to the Washington Post, many uber investigators have no Law Enforcement experience. Uber says its now hiring people with more experience. A uc santa cruz professor is out of a job. Officials fired him after one of his students claimed he tried to rape her. He has been on paid leave since 2017 before being suspended last month. Campus investigators found a history of him abusing the Sexual Harassment policies. One of his accusers now plans to move forward with a lawsuit against him. For french president Jacques Chirac has died. He was the first leader to acknowledge frances role in the holocaust and opposed the u. S. Invasion of iraq in 2003. His soninlaw says he died peacefully among his loved ones but did not give a cause of death. Chirac battled Health Problems since leaving office in 2007. He was 87. The acting director of National Intelligence is speaking publicly for the first time this morning about the secret whistleblower inquiries that Many Democrats are calling impeachment about. The white house released a summary of President Trumps call with the president of ukraine which shows trump asking him to look into the biden family. Democrats call it evidence of quid pro quo, but many republicans are defending the president. Well have much more from washington coming up at 5 30. A new poll shows the majority of americans do not think the president should be impeached. The poll was conducted between september 19th and september 23rd. Overall 57 of people said President Trump should not be impeached. 37 said he should. The rest were not sure. 4 of republicans and of democrats called for impeachment showing a clear partisan divide. Yesterday we asked midday live viewers whether the impeachment inquiry was justified. 72 said yes. 28 said no. We should make it clear that the poll was done before a lot of the information came out about ukraine. As whe mentioned in about a hour the acting directing of National Intelligence will testify on capitol hill about this whistleblower complaint. Thats starting this morning at 6 00. Lets talk about whats going on in San Francisco. Temperatures in the low to mid 60s. Our last mild morning, if you will. We have mid to upper 60s everywhere along the bayshore into the south bay and daly city. Low to mid 60s in the north bay. Tracy 69. Look at walnut creek, pittsburg and fairfield, low 70s. I want to show you this, this is the golden gate bridge. Notice its getting fuzzy as that southerly surge comes up. You look at the winds, 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour. The marine layer, carl the fog if you will, the sea breeze saying, ugh, were coming in and coming in hard at you heat wave, it will be over today. Breezy and gray at the beaches today. Not the best day to be there. Small craft advisory north of the bay bridge through the delta. A bit more comfortable outside. Still upper 80s possible in the inland east bay neighborhoods. On the peninsula today, 65. Reaching the low 80s. Well drop late this afternoon into the 70s. Well keep dropping down to 72. Heres the south bay, 65 this morning. Sunshine and about 80 by noon. Then well have mid to upper 80s by the afternoon hours. 73 degrees. Then for the east bay, mid to upper 80s this afternoon. You quickly drop into the 70s by 7 00. Well talk more about this cooler weather coming up. First lets get back to frances. Were still tracking this crash in vallejo, eastbound 780 past 80 in glenn cove. One of the cars took out 100 feet of guardrail. Five cars off to the side because of debris. Not causing much slowing at this point but thats something to look out for if youre heading through benicia. Interstate 80 still looking good. Also northbound 101 at fair oaks, there was road work. I think they just picked it up. Traffic has been heavy making your way through sunnyvale. The backup starts at the Great America parkway. Hopefully they will change quickly. City streets have been an option. A live shot of the macarthur maze. Those taillights are westbound 80 heading through the berkeley curve through the bay bridge toll plaza. No problems on 580. A live shot of the bay bridge toll plaza, things are starting to back up now beyond the end of the parking lot. Coming up next, the 7 things to know as you start your day. And stem cells lost in a hospital mishap, the patients whose lives may now be at risk. And a french chef outraged over the reason why he lost a michelin star and now hes planning to sue. Lets take you live outside. A great start to fixfinity internet and mobile, each for 30 a month. That equals awesome wifi from americas bet provider and the best lte on thneste ntgor its the ultimate coverage solution. Its all in the numbers. With xfinity mobile, youll save up to 800 a year on your wireless bill. You can even get 250 back. Dont miss out on xfinity internet and mobile, each for 30 a month. Plus, save up to 800 a year on your wireless bill with xfinity mobile. Xfinity makes saving. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Click, call, or visit a store today. I just add a spoonful to my marinades. To stir frys. Sauces. Just whisk it in. Brush it on. Saute it. It adds a cooked all day taste. That doesnt take all day. Better than bouillon. Dont just make it. Make it better. If youre just joining us, here are the seven things to know. In less than an hour the acting director of National Intelligence is expected to speak publicly for the first time about the whistleblower allegations. Abc will have live coverage at 6 00 a. M. A new report from the Washington Post says uber had a three strikes policy which allows drivers to keep picking up policies even after theyve been accused of crimes. Uber calls the report inaccurate. B. A. R. T. s board will vote on new gates to stop people who skip paying. The board is considering three options. It will likely cost b. A. R. T. Around 1 150 million. Number four, gasoline prices are spiking. You might soon pay more than 4 for a gallon of unleaded. You can blame skyrocketing prices on refinery problems across the state. Its back. Check out the golden gate bridge. Rapidly changing conditions, winds are gusting up to 25 Miles Per Hour and the fog is returning and dropping our temperatures 12 to 22 degrees this afternoon. And number six, if youre heading through vallejo, watch out for lots of debris on eastbound 780 near glen cove parkway. Fve cars off to the righthand side. A bit of a mess in that area. Dominos is now hiring a garlic bread taste tester. That person will spend the day sampling garlic bread and other products. The chief taste tester will work in australia and earn 30 an hour. Its for one day only. How much garlic bread can you eat . Theyre about to find out. One day is enough. All right. Climate activists, they brought business to a standstill in San Franciscos financial district. People going to rise like the waters trying to calm this crisis down. Activists from several groups shut down streets yesterday during a daylong protest. They called for banks to divest from the fossil fuel industry and they demanded World Leaders step up to address the crisis. During the protests the activists painted a mural along the a twoblock stretch of the street. It represents a vision of a rezsilient and sustainable worl. Heres how the mural looked from sky 7. The San Francisco department of works has not said what they plan to do with the murals. Childrens hospital of los angeles is apologizing after stem cells from dozens of patients were destroyed in a freezer malfunction. Not only did the freezer malfunction but so did the sensors that would alert staff. A 13yearold boy was storing cells in case his cancer returned. The teen found out the bad news in a letter from the hospital. I got to almost the bottom and i just started crying. It basically said that the freezer had, like, a malfunction and i lost most of my stem cells. If i would have received a phone call or something, i would have kept that from him. Its the last thing he needs to worry about. The hospital has since apologized for sending the letter to a 13yearold and promises to put safeguards in place to make sure that malfunction doesnt happen again. So many malfunctions from the freezer to sending the letter to kids. Several elected leaders in San Francisco are demanding that the federal government bring back bilingual forms for next years u. S. Census. The census takes place every ten years. It will start early in 2020. Federal officials eliminated paper bilingual forms for people who speak chinese, vietnamese, korean and sschu believes this result in undercounting in areas with large imgramigrant pop from asia. New this morning, a french chef is suing after losing a michelin star. He claims a reviewers mistaken palate may be to blame. Marc veyrat is suing the guide after downgrading his restaurant, la maison des bois yes. Its called la maison des bois in france. Really testing my very poor french. So it was downgraded from 3 stars to 2. He believes the reviewer believed a cheese souffle had cheddar in it, but he says the golden color was from saffron, not cheese. Now he wants documentation to explain the decision to downgrade the restaurant. A Court Hearing is scheduled for november 27th. A Court Hearing . I have no idea what this is about. Thats my imitation of the chef in little mermaid. Ri dont know if thats a reason. Couldnt it have been any number of reasons . He wasnt that impressed . Yeah. Thats why we need documentation. Okay. Good luck to you. Oh. Were coming over here now . Im trying to understand whats going on. Were coming to weather now. Okay. All right. Its 5 19. Hi, everybody. Heres a look at sfo, off in the distance, you can see the twinkling lights on the mountain. That will change quickly as the sea breeze is moving up the coast. Clouds are hitting the golden gate. Its a matter of time before they push through the gap and head over to sfo. Its over. The refreshing breeze is here. No more heat wave. No more fire danger. No more poor air quality. Well be cloudy the next several nights. Drizzle possible at the coast, maybe even the east bay hills. It will be much cooler than average. Well get an extended period of cool weather to offset what weve been living through. Heres a look at the southerly surge. You can see it making it up into the north bay by noon. And then it starts to make a turn to the east as we head into the afternoon hours. Look at the temperatures drop after about 2 00. That sea breeze takes over. The hottest part of the day will be around noon to 3 00 for most of us. It may be even shorter earlier for the coast and definitely for the coast in San Francisco. So we have mid to upper 80s in the south bay. 86 in san jose. Low to mid0s for niula. Falling temperatures this afternoon along the coast. Well reach 70 in daly city. As you head up to the north bay, low to mid 80s along the east bayshore. The east areas to get cool, rich land, berkeley, 70s, everybody else in the low 80s. My forecast for tonight, look at that. Mid 50s to some low 60s. You will sleep so much better. Look at this. 60s and 70s cod forecast tomorrow through tuesday. Weve been tracking a crash in vallejo, eastbound 708 near glen cove parkway. Five cars off to the righthand side. Now it looks like the right lane is blocked because one of the cars took out a bunch of guardrail in the area. Not seeing a lot of slowing. Westbound traffic, the more commute direction is still flowing well. Northbound 101 in sunnyvale has been jammed. There was earlier road work at fair oaks that has been cleared, but seeing lots of delays now. City streets are an alternate. Hopefully that will clear up soon. Thats causing a sevenminute delay. The ride on southbound 680 was off to a rough start earlier. Things are flowing better now making your way southbound on the righthand side towards highway 24 which is looking good through the caldecott tunnel. I think theyll turn on the metering lights any minute now. Things are backing up at the bay bridge toll plaza towards the 880 ov well, one of the beatles most iconic albums is celebrating a special anniversary. And a marvel heavy hitter is crossing over to the stahe work. Do you know what you should be buying in october . This is a 7 on your side quick tip. Many consumers think of october as a waiting period before black friday. Theyre missing out on some great deals. Lets start with auto sales. For years and years auto deals have been made during october. Thats because dealerships are looking to get rid of the old models to take in the new ones. You can get some fabulous deals. Indigenous peoples day, columbus day, a great time to buy athletic shoes. Get up to 40 off. And deal news says this is also a great time to buy halloween costumes. The first two weeks of the month, there are some fabulous deals, then prices can raise a little bit, then the deals come back on november 1st. For that it takes some real look at the dichotomy in this picture. Yesterdays record high temperatures from Half Moon Bay at 92. San jose at 99. Along with redwood city and San Francisco at 94. But behind this graphic, the fog is back. The cooling is beginning. You done have to worry about this obnoxious heat anymore. Just 70s and 80s today in our hottest areas. Well talk more about that cooler weather coming up in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Hear core comes the sun all right. Happening today, it is the 50th anniversary of beatles abby album being released. The fab four were crossing the albums namesake. To celebrate, a new mix of the album is being produced by giles martin, the son of beatles producer george martin. Star wars episode 9, the rise of skywalker doesnt hit the theaters until december, but disney is already making plan for a new era in the star wars franchise. Marvel studios president has been tapped to develop all new star wars films. Fahey has already told an unnamed major actor that he has a specific role in mind when that movie is made. Disney is the Parent Company of all of those things. And abc 7. Thats right. Coming back with another full 90 minutes of news including the company allowing you to apply for jobs with the help of smart assistants. And b. A. R. T. Officials will take a major step today towards replacing these gates. Ill have the story coming up. And also who said what to whom in thectin chiefoe beforongress in about a half hour to tell the nation what he now at 5 30, just 30 minutes until the testimony on capitol hill. The acting director of National Intelligence will talk about the whistleblower complaint against President Trump. B. A. R. T. Goes back to the drawing board. It will consider new gate designs this morning to stp fare evaders. And the electricity is back on in the north bay hit by a pg e shutdown, but some people dont think it was worth it. Good morning. Its thursday, september 26th. It was my Little Brothers birthday yesterday. I saw pictures. That was very cute. You know what wasnt cute . 3 out of the 4 of us here dont have air conditioning. It was a rough night. If you see bags under the eyes, thats why. I feel your sympathy, but not sorry, i drive 70 miles every day so i can have air conditioning. You dont have to apologize. Im just letting you know why we may be haggard. You guys have been troopers. I can maimagine what youre goi through trying to sleep, especially with this shift. The calvary of cooler weather. Its in Half Moon Bay. Visibility down to a quarter mile. And its starting to make a push to the north. Look at that wind coming out of the southeast at 12. This is what it looks like at the golden gate bridge. There it is. Winds are blowing at 25 Miles Per Hour. So it will touch all of our neighborhoods by the afternoon hours. Starting off warm, upper 50s to low 60s. 70 and 80 at the noon, but at the coast, we drop during t afternoon, 60s and 70s by 7 00. Lets turn it over to frances. Good morning. Good morning. Seeing lots of usual slowing around the bay area, but also one spot you need to look out for. Its in vallejo, eastbound 780 near glen cove parkway. The right lane is blocked. Were tracking that slowing on westbound 80 through vallejo moving at around 34 and 35 Miles Per Hour as you make your way towards the road work at fair oaks has been cleared, but its still a little slow making your way through sunnyvale. Metering lights have been turned on at the bay bridge toll plaza. There was even a minor crash reported in the backup. That is right now extending into the maze. A good 15 to 20minute wait. Heading across the san mateo bridge, nice looking right here. No problems at all, westbound traffic on the righthand side. The slowing, westbound 580, tracy to dublin, 52 minutes. In just about 30 minutes at 6 00 a. M. Our time the acting director of National Intelligence is speaking publicly for the first time about the secret whistleblower complaint fueling impeachment inquiries. House democrats are hoping hell explain why he withheld the complaint from congress for weeks. Inez joins us more with more. Good morning. More than twothirds of House Democrats say its time to impeach as more information comes to light about that phone call between President Trump and the president of ukraine. Reporter this morning, a source tells abc news that Ukrainian Government officials understood that in order to arrange a call with the american president , they had to agree to talk about investigating the bidens. The ukrainian leader says he never felt pressured. I think nobody push me. In other ter in a summaryf the july call between the two leaders, trump directly asked him to coordinate with bill barr and Rudy Giuliani to investigate his potential 2020 rival joe biden and bidens son who was doing business in the ukraine. Theres been no evidence of wrong doing against the bidens. Its a joke. Impeachment for that . Reporter democrats who have already launched an impeachment inquiry say the call summary shows there was a quid pro quo. Its such a blatant abuse of power it cant stand. Reporter this as select members of the house got their first look at the classified whistleblower complaint related to trumps conversations with ukraine and that the administration had tried to block from congress. This morning the acting director of National Intelligence will appear before the House Intelligence Committee in just about 30 minutes and as for that whistleblower complaint. Its being declassified and could be released as early as today. Thank you for that update. Abc will have live coverage of that testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. George stephanopoulos will have a special report and that starts at about 6 00 this morning. Abc 7 is committed to billing a better bay area, part of that focus is mass transit including b. A. R. T. Today the transit will be meeting to talk about new options for fare gates. B. A. R. T. Has been tackling fare evasion. Amy hollyfield is joining us live from the Pleasant Hill b. A. R. T. Station in walnut creek. Amy . Good morning. Passengers made it clear they want these gates replaced. 89 of those surveyed said something needs to be done to stop fare evaders. Here are the gates theyre looking at. This is the top contender, a plexiglass gate that swings over. Theres another with a retractable barrier and another one with floor to ceiling turn styles. That first one looks like it will pass. Passengers say theyre looking forward to new gates. We talked to one man who adoes approve of the first option. Its important. It makes it the price goes up for everybody else. So, of course, if they have the people stopped, its usually people who are kind of doing bad that are hopping over. I think it would be best if they have Something Like that. It is looking like this will cost around 1 150 million. But Officials Say riders will not be paying extra to get these new gates, and they say they lose about 25 million a year from people not paying their fares. They hope to get the new gates in place as soon as possible. B. A. R. T. Is expected to vote today on which gate to purchase. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. This morning electricity is back to all 1,400 pg e customers in sonoma and napa counties following yesterdays power shutoffs. Pg e restored power by 4 00 in Sonoma County and that cal calistoga by 5 30. Sonoma county supervisor susan goran is critical of the pg e planned power shutoff. Cal fire said they arrested a missouri man who flew to the bay area and set more than a dozen fires over the weekend. 68yearold Freddie Graham is facing 15 counts of arson. The Bay Area News Group says that graham drove a rental car towards milpitas and started throwing flaming pieces of paper on to the grassy hills. Authorities say he set four fires on friday and then nine more on saturday. A witness spotted that car and reported it. Police arrested graham as he returned his rental car at San Jose International airport. Right now his motive is unclear. New developments in the plan to convert schools into housing for san jose teachers. The school board has ruled out Leland High School and brett Hart Middle School as locations. Here are the remaining options. District offices, the River Glen School and the second start pine hill school. And the site of the metropolitan education district. The district will evaluate each site by spring and the aim is to build up to 400 housing units. Coming up, a local teen will be old enough to vote in the general election but not in the primary. Hes pushing to correct what he sees as a political oversight. A United Airlines flight to San Francisco has to divert to denver. The embarrassing potty jam whun pass one passenger got into. As we look at the bay bridge and the embarcadero, well get a check of the forecast. I think youll like it, if youre tired of the heat and tired of being uncomfortable while trying to sleep. Heres a look at the warmest temperatures well have during the morning hours. Mid to upper 60s at the peninsula. 59 at Half Moon Bay. 63 in san ramon. San jose just dropped out of the 70s, 69, san rafael down to 68. Emeryville, its getting fuzzy there. We have fog moving across the golden gate bridge. That is the breaking of the heat wave. Driving, watch out for that fog. Mass transit, warm. 62 for the north day, 70 at noon. Staying at about 80 to about 82 degrees at 3 00. Dropping down to 69 at 7 00. The east bay, 66 at 7 00. Were near the upper 70s at noon. Also hold around 80 and drop this afternoon. The sea breeze gets more robust. In San Francisco, that 70s is being generous. Thats on the bay side. Theres parts of the coast that will not break out of the 60s today. You are already feeling the cooling trend. So im very happy to stand next to you tomorrow when youll get a good nights sleep. Yes. Yes. In San Francisco it was hard because a lot of folks dont have air conditioning. I was worried people wouldnt get enough sleep. Drowsy driving. Its not been too bad. As i say that, a new crash came in on san jose, northbound 101 at mckee. A van is facing the wrong way at this point. Traffic is very heavy from story road up towards mckee. Checking out the drive time for you, that bottom drive time, northbound 101 from highway 85 is yellow because of this crash. To the san jose airport, a 16minute ride. In vallejo, eastbound 780 at glen cove parkway, an earlier fivecar crash has been cleared. Westbound 80 is slow, the normal slowing making your way through vallejo. Thats moving at around 30 Miles Per Hour. Bay bridge metering lights have been turned on. Traffic is backed up into the maze. Typical delays there. If youre headed to the they took 12. 8 billion from big tobacco. Juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. Five million kids now using ecigarettes. The fda said juul ignored the law with Misleading Health claims. Now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn San Franciscos ecigarette protections. Say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. Look at your school day forecast i put together. You will step out with temperatures in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Kind of mild this morning. The clouds at the coast will keep you in the 60s. Upper 70s at 11 00. And mid to upper 80s. While weve been baking, theyve been worrying about flash flooding down in the decembsert. 89 in palm springs. A chance of showers around san diego and los angeles. Mid to upper 70s. Look at the clouds reaching all the way up to eureka today. Eventually cooler weather sets in after being in the 70s today, only the mid 40s by sunday with rain turning over to snow. Okay. Thanks. An unusual warning is out about the upcoming joker film about potential attacks at movie theaters. Army officials have alerted soldiers about possible Mass Shootings at theaters showing the film. There are no specific plots detailed, but Officials Say potential threats were made online. Theyre warning people to remain aware of their surroundings and to identify two escape routes when entering theaters. Teens are taking center stage in global movements like the recent climate strike and gun control. Singe is not an issue, but soon some 17yearolds will be old enough to vote when the 2020 general election comes around next november, but they cant vote in the primary. 17yearold ryan beam of Scotts Valley is one of those teens. In 2017 then governor jerry brown moved the 2020 president ial primary from june to march 3rd. This left some california teens in a gray area. I would be about a week too young to vote in the. March 3rd primary election. That was the case for the majority of my graduating class. The state assembly is now considering allowing anyone who would be 18 on the day of the general election to participate in the primary. The bill needs two thirds approval from legislators before it could be put on the 2020 ballot. A ceremony will take place to add 72 new tiles honoring veterans to San Franciscos korean war memorial. That memorial is located in the presidio and overlooks the golden gate bridge. Veterans groups, south koreans government and other dopers paid for the memorial. More than 36,000 americans lost their lives between 1950 and 1953. This ceremony begins at 10 00. San francisco officials have given the green light to double the number of scooters on streets beginning. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced yesterday that the number of Companies Operating these scooters will expand from two to four. Permits have been granted to increase the number of scooters from 2,000 to 4,000 and the number of neighborhoods that will have scooters will also double. Critics complained that a lot of scooter renters are riding on the sidewalks, which is against the law. The Police Department has limited resources for enforcement. Thats why we asked the operators themselves to do what we can to educate users, they have enforcement tools as well. Mmhmm. No help with i should say to help with enforcement, scoot and spin have printed messages on their scooters saying no riding on sidewalks. Yet, it happens all the time. A flight bound for San Francisco from washington, d. C. Was forced to make an unscheduled landing after someone got stuck in the bathroom. Video shot by a passenger shows the crews trying to get it open. Well get you out soon, okay . The United Airlines flight was forced to divert to denver. Firefighters had to come on the flight and unjam the door. The passenger was okay. United got the plane back in the ar after a twohour delay. We looked it up. It turns out that that person was stuck in the lav for an hour. Oh. Thats a long time. Right. Its not the most glamorous place to be. Can you imagine when she came out. Hopefully they evacuated the whole plane before she came out and faced everybody. You think they would do that . Thats sweet. I dont think so. The walk of shame is real. At least she was in the front lavatory, so it was a quick exit. Were up to 22 degrees cooler. No more heat advisory, no more red flag warning. Becoming cloudy tonight everywhere wh coastal drizzle. We have breezy conditions. Look at the southerly surge developing along the coast. Taking over the entire area by noon. Watch our warm temperatures fade. They get stronger by 2 00. Look at them quickly fade as the sea breeze moves inland. The clouds making a beile bee lr the east bay and the south bay. 80s for the east bay and south bay. The peninsula, low to mid your temperatures will fall this afternoon. Low 70s at downtown, falling after the noon hour. Low to mid 80s across the north bay. 70s in richmond, berkeley. Everyone else in the low 80s. Heading inland, mid to upper 80s. For tonight youll sleep much better with mid 50s to mid 60s. My accuweather sevenday forecast, friday through tuesday, 60s and 70s. A new crash just reported at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its one of the fast track lanes. So theyre trying to clear it. Its always difficult when youre backed up into the maze and theyre trying to get it out of the lanes. Traffic is backed up and slow. Bart is reporting no delays. Weve been following an stent in san jose north 101 at mckee. It has just been cleared. Abc news has a special report now. Stephanopoulos. Good morning, we are coming on the air with major breaking news in the impeachment investigation into President Trump. The House Intelligence Committee has just released the whistleblower complaint, a declassified version of it that sparked this impeachment, this formal impeachment inquiry. We just got it moments ago. Want to show you what learned about it. This is the second paragraph. Of that complaint, from the whistleblower who says in the course of my official duties i have received information from multiple u. S. Government officials that the president of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 u. S. Election. Now, this person does say he or she was not a direct witness to most of the events described but bases it on conversations he or she picked up in conversations with multiple government officials in the course of regular duty covering this matter. I want to bring in jon karl, our chief white house correspondent. That top sentence soliciting interterrence from a Foreign Government in our elections and many details, what he knows about the phone calls with ukraine and other matters. This goes far beyond the phone call with the president of ukraine. And the line that jumps out to me is on the very next page, george. The white house officials who told me this information, the white house officials this whistleblower was hearing from people inside the white house that this was a matter that they were deeply disturbed by what transpired in the phone call and then he details how there was an effort to lock down the phone call to the memoranda. Explain. To make sure that only a very limited number of people would have access to it so they put it on a separate basically a separate server. Yeah, they took it outside the normal channels and put it into a channel normally reserved for highly classified highly classified information and there was weve all read this completely declassified memorandum. Theres nothing in there that is of, you know, compartmentalized highly classified information so this person says white house officials were told they were directed by the white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the Computer System in which such transcripts are typically stored so that it can be coordinated among different agencies. The foulllowup. One official described it as an act of abuse of this Electronic System because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a National Security perspective. So you have here as jon points out this whistleblower talking to various white house officials who are expressing these concerns to him about the way the process is being handled. So basically this whistleblower is acting as a reporter inside the government, internal reporter describing conversations he or he is having with white house officials. This one also this phrase also jumped out at me on page 3 where he says, that hes talking about the white house officials and the officials retelling, they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain so thats hes reporting on white house Officials Saying the president of the United States abused his office for personal gain. I think the summary of that comes on page 7 which is to me the critical paragraph in this entire whistleblower letter. Multiple u. S. Officials told me the ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a meeting or phone call between the president and president zelensky would depend on whether zelensky showed willingness to play ball on the issues that had been public aired by mr. And let me interrupt you there because thatrrponds, i dont know if we have tom llamas on the line from kiev. Thats what we learned from ukrainian officials as well. Former ukrainian official who told tom that that was a condition for this call. Right. And so when youre looking at the totality of where we are, right. We knew about the phone call. This is an accurate recounting of the phone call. Correct. So weve got the phone call which is in and of itself a big part what have this whistleblower report is about. Were sort of putting that to the side because we already know about that but clearly this whistleblower is very concerned about that phone call and now is providing some context surrounding the call and thats the additional piece here that we didnt know about coming into today. There were questions of a coverup because of how they treated the information. There was not only a coverup but followup because what the official also records here is all the actions that Rudy Giuliani, the president s personal lawyer did in a meeting with ukrainian officials after the president s phone call with the ukrainian president if whats fascinating here you see state department official, ambassadors out trying to basically undo the damage that giuliani they believe giuliani has done in his conversations. You see so this whistleblower has clearly spoken to people at the white house and at the state department and you see and ive had sources tell me that it goes all the way up to pompeo unhappy with how yooul is basically acted as a freelance diplomat on behalf of the president. Terry moran, you have a few minutes to read this complaint as well. Your thoughts . Reporter well, its a remarkable document and it is a road map. Its a road map for house investigators and potentially for senate prosecutors in a potential impeachment and it goes backwards afternoon forwards. Thats two things that i see right away that investigators would be interested in. First witnesses. This whistleblower identifies people by name and position who were listening in to this phone call who knew about it and then who participated after the phone call in basically deep sixing it. Locking it down. Putting it on a separate Computer System to try essentially to cover it up. That is evidence at the very least of officials knew it was problematic if not actual consciousness of the president s guilt that he had done something very wrong. Let me stop you before you get to your second point. So many of the witnesses are Unnamed White House officials which sets up again a potential clash between congress and the white house if the white house intends to declare executive privilege over the testimony of these white house officials, thats a complicated thing to doen 0 the one hand they prevent the testimony. On the other they become subject to charges of a coverup. They do and that gets them in legal jeopardy and that is leverage to get them to talk. The president can claim executive privilege if the congress proceeds on an impeachment basis, thats a strong argument to bring to a court. The other thing this does is give us a time line so weve got witnesses and we have a time line now that according to the whistleblower begins last spring and he details a lot of incidents and conversations involving the president , Rudy Giuliani and others as far people in europe meeting with ukrainian officials, all of whom are witnesses to a considered and concerted effort over months to go after the bidens through ukraine. So what they have here is a road map that identifies who they can talk to and a series of events over months where the phone call is just one scene in this movie. We are now getting a better narrative as to what this whistleblower believes was wrongful action on behalf of the president. What led to the phone call. We have tom llamas on the phone fromty jeff and, tom, i know you havent had a chance to read it but i want to read the key paragraph dan abrams identified and talk about the reporting you have from ukraine. In the complaint during the same time frame multiple u. S. Officials told me that the ukrainian leadership was led to believe this a meeting or phone call between the president and president zelensky would depend on whether zelensky showed willingness to play ball, quote, on the issues publicly aired by mr. Giuliani that corresponds with your reporting from ukraine. Reporter thats right. We spoke to a former adviser to the president of ukraine who told us yesterday that in the leadup right after the election the transition, it was their understanding from ukrainian officials that the only way they were going to have a meeting with trump is if they discussed the bidens. If they discussed the biden investigation. Now because we reported that information it spread all over the world, this former adviser is saying, listen, this was not exactly inside information. This was more our understanding so it was clear because of what Rudy Giuliani was doing, i got to tell you, george, from being over here now and from being here earlier this summer, we spoke to a former prosecutor in ukraine and he told us he had already contacted Rudy Giuliani so the contacts were extensive and giuliani wasnt only speaking to current officials but past officials as well. And i also want to bring in Martha Raddatz as well. One of the contentions here, the Whistleblower Makes is that the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who had criticized the ukrainians record was basically removed from her post early apparently at the behest of the people that mr. Giuliani was talking to. Reporter exactly. Thats the reporting there and thats what is in the report and President Trump himself has had some negative comments about that ambassador saying she wasnt a good person and she was removed. The thing that strikes me, george is at the heart of this as you know, nancy pelosi has talked about this as a National Security concern and why would this be a National Security concern . We see in the document it says further in the icigs judgment alleged conduct by a senior u. S. Public official to seek foreign assistance to interfere in or influence a federal election would consty statute a serious or flagrant problem or abuse which would also potentially expose such a u. S. Public official or others acting in concert with the u. S. Public official to serious National Security and counterintelligence risks with respect to Foreign Intelligence Services aware of such alleged conduct. And that to me is the heart of what nancy pelosi is trying to get to and what she is trying to talk to the American People about. Right. She has said this is a National Security issue. That its not only about whether or not the president engaged in potentially criminal activity which the department of justice said he did not but talks about whether or not there are compromises of National Security, jon. Theres also National Security concerns in juuls activities here. This is a the whistleblower staying ive heard from multiple u. S. Officials that they were deeply concerned by what they viewed as mr. Giulianis sir scircumventi. And state Department Officials including embassy volker and sundland had spoken with mr. Giuliani in an attempt to contain the damage to u. S. National security. Okay, let me bring in chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas on the potential National Security risk. Pierre. One of the things that strikes me is the level of urgency that the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community put on these allegations. He says that after 14 days of looking at this matter, he did find other evidence to substantiate this particular claim. Interestingly, he points out an executive order from President Trump which states the following, that any effort to interfere in the u. S. Election by people outside of the United States would result in
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