Did you see anybody earlier in the evening telling you were not leafing, were going to ride it out . Going leaving, were going to ride it out . Going against what theyre telling folks . Reporter yes, a lot of people sort of taking their last walks, the calm before the storm. Thats what it was. And a lot of people telling me look, we decided not to evacuate. Well ride this out in our homes. We feel were safe and its sturdy. A number of them were here for hurricane andrew 25 years ago, and they feel if they can survive that they can survive anything, including hurricane irma, but thats not advised. Yeah, gambling tonight with their lives unfortunately. All right, Kenneth Craig live in miami tonight, thank you. And here paul deanno with the latest on irmas path. Its tracking all the way from haiti on one side to homestead, florida on the other side. Nearly 600 miles in size. Heres the storm, now back up to category 5 strength despite the fact that its interacting with land in cuba. Heres
Uninjured. Reporter the driver told chp officers that he could see the massive tree as it was falling on to the freeway and didnt know if he should speed past it or slam on the brakes. He close to stop, and his camaro skidded under the tree as it fell and snapped across the northbound lanes. The car didnt get much damage, and the driver escaped unharmed, thanking his lucky stars that the trunk broke instead of falling on top of his car. Weve seen crews work quickly. They managed to cut apart the huge portion of the tree that was laying across the southbound lanes. So were expecting them to be able to open up both directions of highway 13 pretty quickly. Reporting live in oakland, abc7 news. Thank you very much for that. A warning for bart riders. Theres a major delay at San Francisco and the peninsula stations. Bart is blaming power issues. The bay areas rain is expected to ease up at some point tonight, but not just yet. On stanfords campus, it poured today. That didnt stop the diving
Zplnchts live where you live, this is abc7 news. Choir is a team sport. This was his team and family. An emotional goodbye to the youngest victim of the ghost ship fire. That was not the only benefit for the 36 victims. Thank you for joining us. In oakland federal invest fwa or thes say the rain didnt. The youngest victim of the fire was honored tonight in song. The school of the arts held a memorial concert. Former classmates performed in honor of 17yearold dravon mcelle. It was an emotional goodbye for a teenager who clearly touched everyone who knew him. The school of the arts is close knit sen is grieving the loss of two victims. E9 a touching memorial for dravon mcgill, the youngest victim of the ghost ship fire. He was a vocalist and student at the school of the arts. Saturday a performance was held in his honor. A schichoir is a team sport. The director of the vocal music was also his teacher. She says the teen loved electronic dance music and hip hop but was trained in classica
Captured during a newscast in istanbul. A car bomb went off outside a soccer stadium yesterday after a match between two of of the countrys top teams. Followed by a suicide becoming less than a mile away. Officials now say 39 people, including 30 Police Officers, have died. 155 people were hurt. 13 suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack. The tributes continue for those who lost their lives in oaklands warehouse fire. The youngest victim was honored in song. The school of the arts held a memorial concert last night. Former classmates and ensembles performed in honor of 17yearold mcgill. Our News Reporter wases there and has the story. A touching memorial for the youngest victim of the ghost ship warehouse fire. The 17yearold was a student and vocalist as a San Francisco school of the arts. Saturday a performance was held in his honor. Choir is a team sport and this was his team, this was his family. The director of vokoun cal music was also drave of ns teacher. She sa
For all of San Francisco. Good morning way area. Lets get up and get going. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning. Im caroline tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, december 11th. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning, everyone. Haycock at a dry start to our day. Its cloudy, a lot cooler out there. And yesterday, boy, we had over an inch in oakland. San francisco was three quarters an inch and san jose about. 4. The east bay hills we see some lowlying fog. 48 in the city. 5 is san jose and gilroy. From sutro its pretty gray and chilly. There is fog. Its in the north bay. But the headline is the much, much cooler temperatures. As you go throughout the morning you see the high clouds begin a thin out a little bit. Partly to mostly cloudy today and we have a carbon copy tomorrow. You want to say tuned for the extend the outlook. Its looking pretty stormy. Carolyn. Lisa, thank you. Breaking news. Had this accident after 4 00 this morni