Announcer live from the kgo news broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. Aware, alert and now considered a hero. A fastacting teachers aide rescues an antioch girl spotted inside a strangers car. Now, abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Bernard is live at the scene of the attempted abduction. Cornell, had the teacher not taken action, who knows what would have happened. Reporter yeah, absolutely, reggie and natasha. This story could have taken a terrible turn if not for the bravy of one woman who made the right move at the right time. A suspect from brentwood pulled the young girl into his truck. It was kind of like the superwoman power thing. Like, i cant believe i did that. Reporter Sandra Ferguson should feel like a superwoman after stopping the attempted kidnapping of an 11yearold girl on this antioch street. Sandra was driving to Sutter Elementary School friday morning where she works as a teachers aide when she spotted one of her former students sitting in a truck with a middleaged man. Sh
Mudslides started around three hours ago after a sudden, powerful thunderstorm dumped upwards of 4 to 5 inches of rain in the area. We have video showing a wall of mud shah washed out roads, and homes, properties have been covered and in cases several feet of mud. Drivers stuck, look at the white car, you cant see it, have been rescued by others but the cars are immobilized by the damage. Caltrans closed a busy interstate 5 through the grapevine because of the mud out of the freeway there. The video was captured by driver kathy swain, waiting to be rescued. The patrol says the freeway is going to be closed another 1015 hours. The National Weather service issued a flash flood warning. More strong showers and thunderstorms are expected throughout the evening. Spencer christian joins us with the accuweather update. Weather has been turbulent because of the upper level low kicking up stormy conditions now north of los angeles into bakersfield and into san joaquin valley. We have had report
Rush hour because of a car fire. This is a live look youre seeing here from our sutro cam. They look like theyre a dead stop at this point. Here is why. This photo was posted on twitter from a driver showing the black smoke coming from the car that caught fire around 5 30. So figure, 30 minutes ago. Its not clear how the car caught fire but there is video showing smoke from the fire. You can see on the screen, flashing lights on the span. Some northbound lanes heading to the Golden Gate Bridge were shut down but just reopened moments ago. The chp says they had to close the lanes until they knew the fire was not going to spread. You can get updates throughout the next hour on this newscast as well as on twitter abc7 news bay area, good evening, everybody, im larry beil. Im ama daetz. Now, we get to our other top story out of Southern California. Powerful images showing a major mudslide in the Angeles National forest. Trees, and homes were wiped out by a wall of mud. Taking a look overhe
Stranded drivers. Traffic stopped. And then the storm clouds kind of cleared. And right as the sun came out it cleared up mud started pouring down the mountain down the road and just kind of engulfed everything. Reporter Michael Natoli and his band were headed south from san jose. The band time shares was set to play the first l. A. Show tonight when they hit the wild weather. Up the mountain, the mud was just rolling down that mountain up there. Reporter via facetime they showed us the scene where they had been sitting for hours. They were like bulldozers trying to plow boulders out of the road. I didnt get too nervous until we saw the boulders that were flowing down the highway and getting stuck under and on top of cars. Reporter the mess meant a traffic nightmare for motorists. Completely shut down, completely. Stuck. Reporter so they are urging drivers to plan accordingly and avoid the area if possible. In castaic, california, serene branson, cbs news. Crews are work around the clo
Uber. I was tired. I just wanted to get home. Reporter but she says the angry driver on the other end of the phone had a clear and terrifying threat waiting for her. Im going to find you, im going to rape you, and im going to kill you. Ive had people say weird things to me before, but this had a different tenor in a way that made me feel like it was a real threat. Reporter apparently the driver couldnt find her. She was waiting for him on that corner, but apparently he was lacking on that correspond. He was very angry and started swearing immediately. I said, im not comfortable, lets just cancel the ride. Reporter she says the driver eventually drove off, and uber released this statement saying in part, we want to offer our deep apologies to our rider. The drivers access to you know hear been permanently removed. As for eve, she doesnt plan to sue. She just wants others to hear her cautionary tale. If you let them do that, youre just letting that person do that to someone else. Eve did