Transcripts For KGO ABC 7 News 20160918

Good morning. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, september 18th. Lets start with a look at the weather. Good morning to you the live doppler 7 at work with no fog at the coast. In fact, this morning while you were sleeping it was 46 degrees. In halfmoon bay its 56. You can ski how clear it is. Its going to be a mild day at the shoreline. Emoryville youll be well into the 80s. 71 by the delta. Spare the air alert today. The third consecutive day with poor air quality. Thank you. Developing news out of new york city this morning. Governor governor says theres no reason to believe theres any mediate threat to manhattan after an explosion injured at least 29 people. A man hunt is under way to find who is behind that blast. Surveillance video shows the moment it happened around 5 30 last night our time in the citys chelsea neighborhood. All 29 victims have been released from the hospital. New yorks governor saying theres no evidence of International Terrorism connected with the explosion authorities safely removed a possible secondary device, a Pressure Cooker that was found a few blocks away. We will find who planted these explosives and they will be punished. We will not allow these type of people and these type of threats to disrupt our life in new york. Thats what they want to do. Were not going to let them do it. Governor cuomo says there will be a thousands Additional Police officer monitoring airport and bus stations. President obama has been briefed on this incident but has not issued a formal statement yet. Hes expected to arrive in new york city later today. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton talked about the explosion with her traveling press corps. She stressed the importance of not jumping to conclusions. Well, i think its important to know the facts about any incident like this. Thats why its critical to support the First Responders, the investigators who are looking into it trying to determine what did happen. Donald trump offered a different response just minutes after the explosion after a Campaign Event in colorado. Ill tell you that just before i got off the plane, a bomb went off in new york and nobody knows exactly whats going on, but we are living in a time we better get very tough. A third suspicious package turned out to be a bag of trash. Officials say yet another explosion at a 5k race in new jersey yesterday morning does not appear to be connected to last nights incident . New york. That race to benefit marines and sailors was cancelled after a pipe bomb went off. State police found the device inside a trash can along the raceway. It went off in an area where thousands of runners were just about to start that charity race. Luckily it has been delayed because so many runners signed up. No one was nearby when the bomb exploded. Had the race gone on time many people would have been around the area of the garbage cans where the explosion did take place and there would have been massive injuries. What the intentions of the individual, we dont know at this point. Whether its criminal or terroristic, its obvious it was meant to affect the run. The fbi has taken evidence from both the new york and new jersey education motions for further investigation. Now even though they happened thousands of miles away, San Francisco police are not taking any chances. Late last night they released this statement saying theres no known threats to San Francisco, sfpd has increased uniform presence throughout the city. They are stressing if you see something, say something. Weve been pushing out push alerts about the explosion in new york city. Download the abc 7 news app and enable push alerts. More developing news. The Islamic State linked media is claiming man who stabbed eight people at a minnesota mall was quote, a soldier of the Islamic State. That attack happened just before 5 30 afternoon our time at the cross roads mall in st. Cloud. Police say an off duty cop shot and killed the suspect. All are expected to survive. Detectives do not have a motive yet for the stabbings but say theres no further threat. The mall still on lock down this morning. St. Cloud is 70 miles north of minneapolis. Oakland mayor helped launch a Multimedia Campaign to fight sex trafficking in the bay area. It comes just two days after the first criminal charges were filed against Police Officers in a wide ranging child prostitution scandal. Abc 7 News Reporter talked with the mayor and he has more. Reporter this is a street music and art festival with an aim to focus attention on sex trafficking in oakland. Its shameful. Oakland is one of the hubs of human sex trafficking. It would be even more shameful to be silent about it. Reporter on friday charges against a former oakland Police Officer and livermore officer were filed by the alemeda district attorney. The mayor focused on the civil claim by the city. We have tremendous compassion for the victim in this case. We will work through the process. This is active litigation so theres not a lot i can say to you about the lawsuit. The organizers of the this event say they are trying to empower residents to take action. Awareness is everything. Its a community who is less at risk for exploitation. Reporter along with this music and art festival theres a website called reportjohn. Org that was launched. They can do it on the web. It allows people to submit anonymous information to the special victims unit. The power of shame and exposure can be just as effective in preventing this type of poor behavior. San Francisco Police on the look out for the person who attacked man with an ax near fishermans. First responders loaded the victim into an ambulance yesterday. The man was hit in the chest. The suspect ran off as the victim made it to a nearby safeway store. It all started as a dispute over a game of cards. Just hours before the start of last nights cal game in berkeley, a two alarm fire put out a lot of smoke downtown. A reporter from texas shared this video. It was taken just after the fire started around 3 45 in the afternoon. It sparked in a courtyard next to the historic mcfarland building. Abc 7 news was there as firefighters worked to get it under control. The theater offices and a vacant copy store are inside. People who live in a fivestory Apartment Building next door were forced to get out. Thick clouds of smoke. I saw it from my sons window as well. I just hurried up and grabbed our things and got out as quickly as possible. The fire was quickly to put out because it had gotten into the walls of the building. One firefighter has a minor arm injury. No one else was hurt. Get ready for a jump in temperatures. Its been getting steadily warmer each day over the past three days. 62 in San Francisco. How about 67 oakland, concord, hayward. How warm will it get . Its going to be the hottest day of the week. Spare the air alert. Well talk about it and much more typical fall like temperature next. Donald trump is taking heat over his latest off the cuff remarks. What he told his supporters that have some people demanding answers. They helped him in the years after his brutal beating at a dodgers game. His message to those who the explosion in manhattan last night sent ripples on to the campaign trail. Donald trump called it a bomb before officials confirmed the information. Hillary clinton pounced on him for that. Heres abc News Reporter mary bruce. Reporter overnight donald trump was quick to respond to the explosion in manhattan speaking out before initial reports. A bomb went off in new york and nobody knows whats going on. Boy, were living in a time we better get very tough. Reporter describing it as a bomb before the cause was confirmed. Two hours later after landing back home in new york, clinton took a more cautious approach. Ill have more to say we know the facts. Reporter she took a swing at trump. I think its always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions. Reporter both candidates are being criticized by robert gate for lacking National Security plans but in the wall street journal he writes that trump is beyond repair and unfit to be commander in chief. Hes nasty guy. Reporter trump is hitting back. When they leave off, they criticize everybody. I dont like critics. I dont like critics. I like the people that get it done and get it done right. Reporter mary bruce. Four people are dead after a charter bus carrying a Junior College Football Team crashed in North Carolina yesterday afternoon. It happened near rockingham about 70 miles east of charlotte. The Highway Patrol says a front tire blew out causing the bus to swerve and hit a guardrail. The players were from two colleges. 42 people were hurt. Theres concern over the growing number of stoned drivers. Some believe the problem will only get worse if the states Marijuana Initiative passes in november. Giants fan thanks the rehabilitation staff that helped him recover from a near fatal beating outside dodger stadium. Abc 7 news was at the Medical Center in san jose yesterday for the reunion. You might remember back in 2011 he suffered brain damage and other injuries during that vicious attack. He was in a coma for nine months. He had to relearn how to talk and walk. Yesterday he spoke in a clear voice as he thanked the rehab staff and those who still help him every day. My care givers, amazing. They come there at 8 00 or 9 00 a. M. In the morning and help me for two to three hours. First they stretch me. Help me get dressed, shower, bathe. Hes become a public speaker through the bryan stow foundation. He talks to kids about bullying, two or three days a week. We want to go back to our developing news. This is a News Conference with the new York Police Department and the mayor with an update on that explosion in manhattan. Nypd, fdny, folks said how reassured they were by the speedy response last night and the continued police presence. They understand theres an Ongoing Investigation that will take time. They understand there will be disruption in that community. By in large people are getting back to business as usual. We heard a good report on the mta. No damage there. That will be up and running soon at that subway stop. The attitude people took was one of gratitude for our First Responders and a sense they were safe now with the kind of presence that was around them at this point. Now, this was a very serious incident. Its going to take a lot of careful investigation to get to the facts and get to the truth. One of the things well say is were going to be very careful and patient to get to the full truth here. Were not going to jump to conclusions. Were not going to offer you easy answers. Well make sure we have all the facts. We know there was a bombing. That much we do know. We know its a very serious incident. We have a lot more work to do to say what kind of motivation was behind this. Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation. What was it . We do not know that yet. That work must go on. Were going to give you regular updates as we get more information. In terms of those who were affected by this incident, 29 individuals were injured. All have been released from the hospital now. Youll hear more from the commissioner about the response by the fdny and the status of those individuals. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of them for a full recovery. Im pleased to say theyre all out of hospital. I want to say be vigilant. Be vigilant because the police need your help. If you see anything that might be pertinent to this case, we need you to call it in. Youll see a substantial nypd presence this week. Bigger than ever. We would normally have an expanded presence for the United Nations general assembly. Youll see a stronger presence now. New yorkers always tell me how reassured they are by seeing our officers, including our newer unit such as a Critical Response command and the Strategic Command group. Seeing them out in force and seeing them at the scene of obviously key public locations around the United Nations, around time square and a lot of other places. Well armed, well trained. This new unit and the capacity it has are crucial to keeping this city safe. That capacity that we have built it was a crucial part of that effort. It gives us the strongest antiterror capacity in the United States and the city. Now, we know from everything weve seen so far, that this was an intentional act. I want to reaffirm what i said last night. We do not know the motivation. We do not know the nature of it. Thats what we have to do more work on. The agencies continue to look to see if theres any specific connection to the incident in new jersey. At this point we do not have any specific evidence of a connection but that will continue to be considered. Were not taking any options off the table. I want to be very clear about that. All possible theories of whats happened here and how it connects will be looked at. We have no specific evidence at this point in time. Again, we are going to urge all new yorkers to be patient as we get down to the bottom of what happened here. We want to be accurate. The most important thing is give people clear and accurate picture of what happened and to bring to jfrs whoever was involved in this incident. The nypd is using its full capacity to find anyone who is involved and bring them to justice. If you have any information that might link to this incident, video, photo, eyewitness accounts, overheard conversation, anything, please call the nypd. The number is 1800577tips. New yorkers, as always, are not intimidated. Thats part of who we are. Well help our police to do the jobs they do. Quickly in spanish. [ speaking spanish ] you have just been listening to the new york mayor. Hes now talking to the spanish community. Hes talking about that explosion that rocked a crowded manhattan neighborhood last night. Tfrs about 5 30 our time. There was a bombing there. The mayor has made that clear. He said it was intentional. Hes not jumping to conclusions. Lets listen in now as james o neil, the Police Commissioner talks. Were still gathering evidence. We still find some components indicative of an ied. We moved the device from 27th street and the bomb squad is in the process of working on that device right now. Use as much time as necessary to make that determination, what that device consist of. Were looking to speak to anyone in the vicinity of either location last night. We put that out last night. As new yorkers usually do, we receive numerous phone calls and each one is being vetted by our detectives. Right now this is the parallel investigation with the nypd and the fbi. This is a device that went off intentionally. If this happened in another city, of course, we would ramp up our security. It happened here so ill ramp up our security even more. We talked about this over the last two years how we foiled 20 plots in new york city. That was done by a very professional, highly trained Law Enforcement agency. This violent criminal act will be solved by those same group of people. Residents can rest assured well get to the bottom of this. Right now were not discounting anything at this point. Were in the process of a complex investigation to determine who did this and why they did this. Carlos will talk about the counter terrorism. Theres a lot of things going on in the city today. We need people in new york to rest assured well do our best to protect them. This News Conference concerning what happened in manhattan last night. One explosion in the chelsea neighborhood and a second device found a few blocks away that the police managed to remove. Right now they are saying they have put an additional 1,000 Law Enforcement personnel on the streets in part because of this but also the u. N. General Assembly Begins meeting this week. They want to have everything in place for that as well. Theyre asking all the residents there to be vigilant. They said they do not know the motivation. It was intentional. They are not ruling anything out as the fbi, police and other agencies investigate. Happening today, six miles of san jose street will be shut down today for the Second Annual viva calle celebration. There will be live music, dancing, food and vendors all along the streets. The department of transportation is donating 500 bike helmets for kids. The celebration runs from 10 00 until 3 00. The hot weather is taking hold of the bay area now. Got a lot of tweets from folks already out enjoying the cool temperatures. It is gorgeous out there now. Upper elevations are in the 80s right new. Havent cooled too much since last night. No fog to speak of. Warmer at this hour by at least 9, 10, 11 degrees. You can see the flag flblowing here. Temperatures will be very mild to almost warm at our coast. Spare the air today. Hotter this afternoon. Much, much cooler air rise on tuesday. Tomorrow, we will cool down but not significantly. Just a little bit. Temperatures will be well into the 90s. The only comfortable place to be will be here on the shoreline. Well into the 70s. Even into montaro looking very mild. It all comes back very patchy. Tomorrow were sunny once again. Temperatures come way down on tuesday. Thursday, this should be the coolest day of the week, which is the First Official day of autumn. Around the bay, 87 degrees today by the bay in freemont. Upper 80s for you. 91 in morgan hill. About five degrees of cooling inland tomorrow. Its all about the sea breeze kicking up. Not much fog. It will be patchy. Thursday just looked at the new forecast models and updating that with the coolest weather and more updates with our abc 7 news app. Thinks change all the time with our weather. We see a lot of variation this week. Thank you. Well, just ahead, an incredib incredible show in the sky. The breath taken view of the Northern Lights captured by a photographer. Abc 7 is celebrating hispanic heritage month. Today we recognize latino futures. A brand new bay area think tank that specializes in research and education. Focused on the importance of the countrys growing latino population. We have more details on instagram at abc 7 news bay area. Grocery shoppers of america take your o organics baby carrots. Take your eggs. Even your o organics chips. And join the organic movement. Organic food is no longer just for the privileged few. Now everyone can afford to go organic. O organics, exclusively at safeway. Take a look at this spectacular show in the sky. The photographer stayed up all night long to capture this beautiful time lapse of the Northern Lights. You can see the beautiful colors. This section of the park is only accessible during the summer. Still to come here on abc 7 mornings, an arrest caught on camera at San Diego State university. Its prompting protests on music plays from one way or another im gonna find y im gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha one way or another im gonna win ya im gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha one way or another im gonna see ya inhales cigarette lets get a check of the accuweather forecast. Nice and sunny. Feels pretty good out there. You can see that not only is it calm out there, we have no wind at all and thats helping the temperatures climb so quickly. 67 in gilroy, Mountain View and oakland. Were looking at a spare the air alert again today. Poor air quality here in our inland valleys. Numbers will be in the 70s by the time the hour is out. Because of that, well be looking at a very sweltering afternoon with temperatures as much as 15 degrees above average. Putting us near 100 inland. Cool and breezy weather on the way for fall. Well talk about it, coming up. Video of an arrest at San Diego State university has prompted protests. Police say the man appeared to be on drugs and resisted arrest. Some are skeptical of the tactics used to subdue him. Sit down. Get on the ground. Reporter the cell phone video of officers and a nonstudent quickly went viral. Get off of me. Reporter reaction among the members were swift. I was disgusted. I think it escalated way bigger than needed to be. I have never seen that type of take down in my life. Reporter leading to a silent protest by the African Student union. Were not here to attack. Were just here to demand answers about what happened. Reporter one of the primary questions for this faculty member. Would you use that type of aggression on a white student, on a white person. Its very important that we have open dialogue. Reporter about 90 minutes after the protest began, the police chief provided some answers while leaving others to be determined by the investigation including the San Francisco of the cell phone video. Thats a very important piece, but its also one piece of the overall investigation. Reporter independent eyewitness accounts wfr and after provide more context, according to police who say the suspect was potentially under the influence of a controlled substance. People who are under the influence act erratically and can become violent. Reporter police say the suspect resisted arrest. Following protocol the officers restrained him until back up arrived. Police say they share the communitys concerns. Concerns that are still not entirely addressed according to several protesters. Its not really adding up because i dont feel thats the way you deal with somebody who is under the influence. That was Richard Allen reporting. A mother in arizona called the police to help her young daughter learn a lesson about seat belt safety. Michelle says her 3yearold daughter took off her seat belt during a ride home. She pulled over to explain the importance of seat belts but she was not sure about the need, so her mom called in the cops for a little back up. Yes it was an extreme choice on my part to call the police, but i knew shes going to remember it. I knew by hearing from a Police Officer who is a person of authority that my kids respect, i knew that was going to drive the point home. Police said they were happy to help. It worked. Camille is quick to strap on the seat belt every time she gets in the car. Tonight is the 68th annual em emmy awards live in los angeles. Were taking you behind the scenes. Abc News Reporter nick watt has all you need know before the show. Reporter waiters are practicing. Jimmy kimmel is back to supervising who sits here. Its an award show for television on television where god intended it to be. Reporter my favorite thing, the fashion and the food. I say wear something that makes you happy. I would say best drama actress, you want to keep on your chair. Im done trying to win over peoples hearts. Reporter keri russell from spy thriller, the american. It was the right thing go for a lot of reasons. The fact she got a nomination was really exciting news for people who have longed believed that show is one of the best on television. Reporter also deserving. Blackish and mr. Robot. I would feel comfortable betting your mortgage on game of thrones in this category. I take what is mine. Yes, she does. That wasreporting. The awards begin live at 5 00. You can watch a replay at 8 00 tonight. Still ahead, meet the doctor who is prescribing dance for her patients. Here is a live look from our sutro cam. You see the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge there. Hotter today than yesterday and temperatures going back and forth throughout the week. Lisa will be here in just a fe we had to think a little more seriously about saving money for the future and for the kids and for their college funds. We thought, well this airbnb is actually a great way to pay those extra bills. Every bit of extra money helps these days. We have a Retirement Fund of our own and i take a draw on it. I dont want to take too much either because i dont know what life is going to bring to me. I get to keep 97 of my rental price. The extra income i get from airbnb has been a huge help. Airbnb has helped me so much financially especially starting my own business. San francisco is such an expensive place to live. The way people work and travel is changing. The guests are now able to stay longer, stay five days, enjoy another day in San Francisco and spend more money in the neighborhood. My guests are able to extend their stay and spend more money on activities and restaurants. The extra income that i get from airbnb has been a huge impact in my life. Welcome back. 9 42 on this sunday, september 18th. Thank you for joining us. This is a live look from our emoryville camera. Its going to be be in the 90s in the east bay today. Livermore could reach 100. This as we head into first day of fall. Lisa here very shortly with the facts and figuresfigures. Hundreds of people will fill the park for the comedy day. More than 40 jokesters will bring out their best jokes, including bob and diane aimers. Past surprise guests have included Whoopi Goldberg and the late robin williams. It runs from noon to 5 00. I like to laugh. Nice day at the beach. It was in the 80s yesterday. Santa cruz, thats coming back today. Already 66 right now. It could be in the mid80s. The fog will be patchy but slow to come back. We have changing forecast i kids dont know how to act fake. I like your face. So were learning to be more like them. Removing artificial flavors and colors from General Mills cereal. I like his face. Well at least hes wearing shoes. Well done champ. Get gooey, flaky, happy. Toaster strudel. Good morning. 70degree temperatures approaching around the bay now. No fog to speak of. We can find it. You have to go pretty far down along be monterey big uroast. It will be patchy tonight. Its spare the air alert again today with hot, dry weather on the way. You can see it really looks like it out there from our tower camera. 67 in oakland. 69 gilroy. Halfmoon bay, 63. The overnight low was 46 degrees. Were already getting warming at the coast. Theres no end at all. This is where temperatures will be six to eight degrees above your average. Not expecting any records for most of you. 65 in napa. We woke up to cool 40s and 50s. At this point everyone is much warmer than we were yesterday. Yesterday was even warmer than the day before. The train continues where in the south bay today you have more 90s on tap. Spare the air alert hotter this afternoon. Well have much cooler weather on tuesday. Then theres a system in the Pacific Northwest that will bring breezy conditions and more cloud cover by the time autumn arrives. The air quality is getting worse and worse with the hot weather and the particulates being pushed to the surface. The swells are kicking up today. The first significant one with the risk of rip currents. Up to nine foot waves there. Very dangerous. Notice no fog at all but by the late afternoon, well get a few patches here on the san mateo coast. Maybe into oakland and then were clear again through your monday afternoon. That sea breeze should kick up and that should help to cool us off a little bit. It already looks warm out there. Here is a look at the peninsula. Numbers will be up 6 to 8 degrees. How about mid80s for san mateo. Its going to be close. Your average high in the upper 70s. Ten degrees warmer in some of these locations. Look at those 70s from pacifica to halfmoon bay. Anywhere from 8 to 13 degrees above average. We should be in this column here with 70s to near 80, but we, once again, will climb well above that. Today is the only critical day because the weather will be favorable for a cooldown and some comfortable conditions. At at t today, its going to be a hot one. Maybe some ice cream there. Look for 82 in milbray. North bay numbers as well. Now about 94 in lake port with 84 castro valley. Maybe 100 out towards brentwood. The evenings, thats when things cool off at sunset after 7 00. Should be nice tonight, but tomorrow still looking at trtss on the warm side. Each and every day its cooler. Autumn arrives on thursday. Then well get back to warmer weather next weekend. All right. I know you love to sgr ye yeah. Imagine getting the feeling back after years of fighting a difficult condition. For patients at stanford, the dream is becoming a reality. Finding that rhythm in your body. Reporter finding the rhythm is half the fun of dancing. It takes a hitting more effort when your body is racked by parkinsons disease. At a brand new distance studio, more than a dozen patients are getting ready to hit the floor. The idea that the body is expressive and deally feeling part of our lives. Lets get ready. Reporter the tempo soon picks up. Its a way to reawaken memories tucked away in the mind and muscle. Ballroom dancing. Then were going to go. Reporter the program was originally launched in new york but caught the eyes and ears of dr. Helen stewart who directs the Stanford Movement disorder center. A former professional dancer herself, she says the benefits are well documented. Plenty of articles showing medical evidence that dance really helps people with pa parkinsons disease. Reporter she was a running but now struggles to keep his balance. Keeps more more optimistic. Reporter when stanford began construction on the new health science, dr. Stewart convinced architect to add in the dance studio. A space where patients find rhythm and a renewed sense of freedom. The program was designed with the help of the mark morris dance troupe in new york. We have more information on abc7news. Com. Coming up, adding to her resume. What steph currys wife will you live life your way. We can help you retire your way, too. Financial guidance while youre mastering life. From chase. So you can. We have the winning numbers from the 244 million power ball drawing. 9, 19, 51, 62, 35 and the power ball number, 14. Wednesday nights drawing resets to 40 million. The winning numbers from last nights 35 million super lotto plus. 16, 20, 22, 34, 41. The meganumber is 6. No one got all six numbers. Theres another chance when the jackpot increases to 36 million. A chp sergeant found a little piece of home while on vacation overseas. The Office Posted these pictures on facebook showing a Police Officer patch collection inside a 14th century castle in germany. You can see it right there. The california Highway Patrol patch right in the middle. Happening today, ayesha curry will serve as the grand marshal. Shes one of the most dynamic personalities. A perfect fit. You can see the two of them there, that cute couple. Curry will participate in prerace activities today. The gates opened at 7 30 this morning. The prerace ceremonies start at 2 15. Pretty hot there today. The only thing cuter than that are the kids after theirs. Get out and enjoy the weather now. Were talking unseasonably warm with upper 80s on the peninsula. 70s at our beaches today. About 5 to 7 cooling tomorrow. Feels like below average. Cool and breezy for autumn on thursday. All right. Thats going to do it for us. Thank you for joining us. Before we go, we want to show you this beautiful sunset sent to us on instagram by beach gal 415. If you have any picture ors videos, share them with us. Just post it on social media with the hashtag abc 7 now. You may see it on our newscast or online. The news continues online on twitter, facebook and instagram. The emmys air this afternoon. Coverage at 2 00. The awards begin live at 5 00. A replay at 8 00. music plays from one way or another im gonna find y im gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha one way or another im gonna win ya im gonna Getcha Getcha Getcha Getcha one way or another im gonna see ya inhales cigarette hello. Im henry tenenbaum. Welcome to bay area buys. We are at russells Fine Furniture in santa clara, where mr. Russell is going to answer that allimportant question why is september different from any other month in the furniture business . Kids are back to school, starting to think about winter. 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