Airlines sent out a news statement apologizing to the customer promising a thorough review. 86 million passengers, united denied boarding to 3700 people because of overbooking. More than 60,000 voluntarily gave up their seats. Kenneth moat en, abc news new york. Today new Jersey Governor Chris Christie asked elaine chao to suspend regulation which allows airlines to overbook flights and to remove passengers. Christie specifically cited the incident involving david dao as the reason. The question from united is how do they recover from what is a huge Public Relations disaster . Kristen sze is here with more. The hashtag continues to go viral today. Take a look at some of the memes out there. Southwest, we beat our competitors, not you. How about this one. If we cannot beat our competitors, we beat our customers. Others are posting pictures of the cut up frequent flyer card. Take a look at this, because Even White House Secretary Sean Spicer is weighing in and criticizing united. Clearly
Development director. Myers says the public will have several opportunities to voice their concerns. In this case, this will probably go through at least four public hearings. Those hearings will be scheduled after traffic, noise and other impact studies are completed. Reporter what would look good to you over there. We actually thought of a Hardware Store or a Retail Outlet that serves the community. Reporter in walnut creek, laura anthony, abc7 news. We are on storm watch, because of pockets of sprinkles which are turning into light rain, this is a live look in san rafael, the traffic on 101. The storm started in the north bay and its gradually spreading to the south bay. Lets take a look at san jose, thats 10 is youre seeing there. Spencer christian tells us what to expect from todays storms. Were seeing light sprinkles from this system, no steady or heavy downpours yet. You can see areas of green represents pockets of light showers and sprinkles moving through the central part of t
Get a view of all the different cameras. You see the cloudy skies over the south bay. Every now and then some raindrops coming down, but we havent seen a steady rain yet. Its 55 degrees. Light showers in San Francisco and also light rain in the north bay while the east bay is also seeing some rain at times, but nothing really heavy at this point. This is what the radar looked like. We see a little bit of some green dotted across the trivalley and moving into the delta and some also low clouds and some mist and drizzle over San Francisco and oakland. Heres a look at the storm system. The center of that storm still well off to the west and out ahead of that we have a cold front thats bringing some rain across far northern california. As we go into this evening, this will be moving in, once again moving north to south. Well talk about the time line and what to expect as that rain rolls in coming up in about 20 minutes. All right. Thank you, kari. Our nbc bay area app is a great way to sta
Its not the burgers, shakes and fries they object to. Laura anthony is there live for us tonight. Reporter the proposed site for the in n out burger is just across the street there and a local developer already ownsa property, its already zoned for a restaurant. What theyre trying to do is get a conditional use permit for a drive through. But theres already a lot of cars here its not in n out that dan angus and his neighbors object to, its all of the traffic that goes in and out of the popular burger restaurant, and having all that just a few yards from their quiet residential neighborhood. Right now theyre planning on putting a combined in n out plus a starbucks. Reporter that in addition to the fact that there are already five other fast food restaurants within a quartermile radius of the proposed in n out location. Sandra myers, walnut creeks community and Economic Development director. Myers says the public will have several opportunities to voice their concerns. In this case, this
And we have Important News tonight on men and Prostate Cancer. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. We begin with that firestorm over comments made at the white house. While being pressed on syria and the strategy moving forward the White House Press secretary, in talking about Bashar Al Assad, said even someone as despicable as hitler didnt even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. More than a million died in hitlers gas chambers. Spicer apologizing just moments ago, and youre about to hear it. We begin with abcs senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega. Reporter secretary of state Rex Tillerson landing in russia today as the u. S. Put moscow on notice. Accusing the kremlin of engaging in a fullscale coverup of that deadly Syrian Chemical Weapons attack. But just as the white house was talking tough, press Secretary Sean Spicer ignited a firestorm during his Daily Briefing by suggesting not only that Bashar Al Assad is worse than adolf h