A good sa pmaritan killed ia hit and run crash. Tonight, the family is desperate for answers. Well tell you what came up when it comes to racial despa disparitie disparities. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Im tracking a system that will bring us clouds. Ill have your forecast coming up. Fire crews put out a fire all because of gophers. Abc7 news starts right now. Now, news to build a better bay area, from abc 7. The california Highway Patrol is looking for the driver responsible for killing a Good Samaritan in a hit and run. Tonight, were learning more about the man who lost his life trying to help. It happened in san mateo. Amanda del castillo is live there tonight and spoke with the victims family. Amanda . Reporter yeah, dan, ama. As you can imagine, the family is heart broken. The mans longtime partner spoke with me through tears and shes trying to find the courage to find her young son dad has died. Jose gar soia aguilar was making his way home from work, where his partner and th
Its only been open for six weeks but people who live near the Navigation Center say its already become a magnet for tents and drug user. Now there is an effort to block additional shelters throughout the city. Amber lee is live along San Franciscos waterfront. Reporter a neighbor to this new Navigation Center tells me he supports the new measure, limiting the number of Navigation Centers and where they should be located. He tells me this new center has attracted more Homeless People into the area. This controversial waterfront Navigation Center along San Franciscos embarcadero has been up and running since december 20th. A neighbor said he just learned that someone died at this Navigation Center. He showed us this Critical Incident report, it reads there was a person in the restroom deceased. It goes on to say my First Response was to administer narcan as a precaution, there was no reaction. Lee says these are photos of the homeless encampments that have popped up in the neighborhood b
On the embarcadero, barricades are out and ready to be put in place. I like recycling my energy inthat new year. You know, just flipping over a new point. Crazy. Reporter people are ready for 2020. We have new things at every level in the show. Reporter thousands of fireworks are the highlight of a big homeless new years eve party. Theyre packed on barges, ready to wow the crowd at midnight. The colors are really bad and strong. Plus we have animated shows that will have things that spin. Just a beautiful view as you can see. We he everything right and from this level, its incredible. Reporter guests get a front row seat. Every room is booked and dinner seat rgz sold out. A capacity crowd is expected at lamars. Restaurants are planning for a big night. While crowds party the night away, the San Francisco Emergency Operation center will be activated and focussed on safety. The department of homeland security, fema, the fbi, all here making sure that were well coordinate, keeping an eye
Weather. Weather. Weather. james breaking from overnight. A man is critically injured following a shooting in san jose. Police were called to the 11hundred block of matterhorn drive around 3 this morning. A man was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. The gunman has not been found. Our top story this morning. A young boy is dead after a playground accident at a private school in san rafael. james the school says classes will be in session this morning. The accident happened yesterday on the playground at Mark Day School on trellis drive. The school says other students and staff witnessed the accident and tried to provide aid for the young boy. He died at a hospital. The school is working with police to investigate what happened. And the section of campus where the accident happened has been closed off. Mark day school released this statement saying. The death of someone so young is devastating for all of us, and ev
For smart train. Services start at these stations tomorrow. Theyll be celebrating with Ribbon Cutting ceremonies. In larkspur theyll have their ceremony at 1 00. Novato will have a ceremony at 10 30 tomorrow morning. For the rest of this month the trains will have temporary schedules. In january they will get up to full speed and start their new timetable with more service. The next couple of weeks, think of it as getting used to it. January theyre really up to speed. Today is all about celebrating this new beginning. Reporting live in larkspur, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Were excited. Im looking forward to it. Thanks. The time is 4 31. Good morning. Were getting a quick update on weather and traffic where you live starting with mike. Lets start with our storm impact scale for today and for tonight. Light to moderate rain, up to a third of an inch for our wettest areas, rough and dangerous surf. Our best radar returns, theres mount st. Helena, there ithe latest data across northern men