Every day, ikea is designing sleep sanctuaries to save our sleep. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Tourists who came to coin tower had more than a nice view to see. The Christopher Columbus statue was vandalized. After wrapping up a beautiful weekend, lots of sunshine. We are tracking a cooler week ahead. Well have the numbers coming up in the accuweather forecast. Governor newsom reviews the toll system. Im kate lawson in San Francisco. What the russian hill neighbors want to do next. Abc7 news starts right now. Now news to build a better bay area from newsom. Good evening, im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. The christ fur columbus statue was vandalized over thease. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena with why the explorer is seen as a polarizing figure. Reporte this vie telegraph h. We came here for the tower, the view. Reporter but many got more than just a view Christopher Columbus statue standing feet away from the tower was vandalized. Red paint covered the face of the controversial colon
Left 58 people dead and hundreds injured, an 800 million settlement has been reached. Weve got the inside details then to the brave bank teller who fought off an Armed Bank Robber and playoff baseball is in full swing weve got your highlights and the best of thursday night football its crazy in the middle of being investigated for asking Foreign Countries for asking Foreign Countries for election help thats like chugging a beer while taking a breathalizer test early today starts right now. Good to be with you on this friday morning im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. Defiant and in the face of an impeachment inquiry, President Trump is adding fuel to his own political firestorm by publicly calling on china to launch an investigation into his political rival joe biden. The same action with ukraine is what set the houses inquiry into motion. When democrats seized on the moment, mr. Trump tripled down on twitter claiming he has the absolute right to investigate corruption and that incl
We are looking life in the exclusive Salesforce Tower camera and looking east. Lets begin here it is finally friday. It is warming up. So that sounds awesome. Is a great end to the work week. Temperatures will be on the rise today into the weekend. Heres a live look with the clear skies your temperatures in the 40s and lower to mid 50s. And mile start to today 55 in downtown San Francisco. As we had through the afternoon check out the high temperatures. Upper 60s and low 70s. Upper 70s for concord. Running aboudegrees of 4 deeebelow average. We are going to continue with that warmup into the weekend. Lets take a look at friday drive. It has no troubles to report as of yet on the bay bridge. Traffic is moving pretty nicely as you work your way westbound coming out of the spain into San Francisco. Pretty much the story throughout all of the bridges here. We are looking at a 12 minute drive with headlights headed in that direction right now. The Golden Gate Bridge looks mighty fine as wel
The what . Trees for halloween i guess. This is a mashup, i guess. I like this one with the eyes. We will find out why this trend is coming. I heard about this and i am curious. I am a fan now that i see it. The one in the middle, i think my kids would love it. Its kind of like a nightmare before christmas, like tim burton. Great month and a lot of activity going on. New beers are being brewed and halloween is in the air. Fall baseball is in the air and football. I am on board with all of that. It is pretty cool today. And hockey starts tomorrow. It is a fun month. I agree. There you go. Speaking of baseball, tomorrow, not today, tomorrow the rays and the as. That is 5 09. It couldve been 5 10, no it is 5 09. That will be wednesday. It will be 70 at first pitch. It was darned cold this morning. 34 at coal valley. And now not as cold but we had 21 at truckee this morning. Lots of 20s still around lake tahoe. Including heavenly at 26. Portland made it to 39 and seattle made it to 40. Tha
We have a whole lot more work to do. Currently the sfpd works in our local and state, federal partners. This grant will allow us to do more. We have staffed up in some major retail areas where these thefts have been occurring. We have added dedicated personnel, added ambassadors. We are able to set a new tone in the state of california that this conduct is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Here is a break down of what local cities will get. San Francisco Police received just over 15 million. San jose and daly city pd both get about 8 million, san ramon more than 5 million. Palo alto will receive nearly 5. 2 million. Do you know what city did not get a dime . Oakland. Why . The city and its official missed the deadline to apply for the money blaming economic and Workforce Development department. Now oakland businesses are getting more fed up. It is no joking matter. We are in a dangerous precarious time for neighbors and businesses. Public safety is far and away the num