Clearly. Its not just San Francisco that will miss ed lee. So many people across this country, throughout the bay area, were touched by his leadership, his kindness, and his amazing example. Ed lees family has set up a benefit in his name. Reverend norman fong was at city hall. He was pulled over for running a stop sign. A big loss for San Francisco. I hope the city can care about the homeless. Care about people who dont have a voice. There was enormous interest in being there. We have much more coverage online including every single speech from yesterdays service at abc7news. Com or the abc 7 news app. We are tracking the crippling impact that power outage at Hartsfieldjackson International Airport is having on the rest of the country including here in the bay area. For nearly 11 hours the power was out and that did include about a half dozen here at sfo. We checked flight aware. Com. I want to show you why this is having such a big impact. Here is what it looked like when the lights
Into southern marin and across the golden gate bridge. These a from the richmond side of things over to marin county. We have a commuter, 51 b. A. R. T. Trains on time. Heads up for your golden gate ferry. Ace trains are looking good out of the Central Valley. Jess . That breaking news, a big fire at a homeless encalm ment in san jose while were you sleeping and we just got this video in to our newsroom. You can see the San Jose Fire Department out there dousing the flames. This is in the area of tulle road east of monterey. They reportedly got the fire extinguished in about ten minutes. In the video we do at one point see a man being taken away in handcuffs. Unclear if the person was detained in connection to the fire or for some other reason. We have heard reports there may have been another person arrested as well. Police right now are looking into it. No injuries were reported. One final goodbye. Mayor ed lee honored at San Francisco city hall nearly one week after he passed away f
More time, this live look at the situation. At this very minute. You can see there, the train still dangling from the tracks. This is the southbound side of interstate 5. It is still shut down. The derailment happened just before 8 00 this morning. There were at least 78 people onboard the train, itself, when it crashed. It was traveling about 81 miles an hour. And it was actually the first train carrying paying customers on a new route for amtrak. It was reportedly equipped with a brand new locomotive. The first car was on the ground, the second car was, like, the passenger, was down and the third was dangling and the fourth and fifth were up on theprobably about 30, 40 peoplet on the freeway just standing, like, about 20 ems started flooding toward the area. And right now, as we take another live look out there, this derailment has actually impacted Amtrak Service all across the west coast. Including right here in california. The coast starlight runs through the bay area. I also want
[inaudible conversations] good evening i am Bradley Graham coowner of politics and growth. Thank you so much for coming out on this rather damp summer evening. Hopefully the will of the time we are ready to go home. We are coming up in a few years on our 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The course gave the men nationally right to vote. Anticipation centennial, Angela Dodson has put together a table sort of almanac titles remember the ladies. A documents the long struggles for suffrage for women in this country. How long with from the very title of the book calls what Abigail Adams said to her husband. A drawing on a range of sources including letters, speeches, newspaper accounts, photos, drawings. Angela highlights the milestones in historic push for womens voting rights. Her book provides portraits of a number of the leaders of the womens Suffrage Movement. In places the movement in the context of other major social and Political Developments that were unf
Tonight, some of the places weve been from all these years on the road. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The Trump Administration denied today that political connections had anything to do with restoring electrical connections to puerto rico. A huge contract was awarded to a tiny company in whitefish, montana, home town of interior secretary ryan zinke. Swrimpgy today said he had nothing to do with the contract. Cbs news correspondent David Begnaud set out today to find the headquarters of the company somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Reporter nestled down this long driveway in whitefish, montana, is a onestory wooden house which is the home of Whitefish Energy, the tiny Energy Company with only two fulltime employees surprised many. doorbell theres mail for andy. When it received a 300 million nobid contract to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. Whitefish has never worked on a project of this size. I mean were kind of