Collapse in San Francisco. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley. And im karina nova. The contractor was working on a sewer project when he became trapped underneath 8 to 10ft of dirt and ce. It happened at divisadero and oak streets, and thhere well join abc7 News Reporter melanie woodrow, who has been on that scene all day long. Melanie dan and karina, this area of oak street was reopened. Some six hours after all of this got started. Despite the efforts of close to 50 firefighters. The weight of the dirt and concrete in this trench collapse was too much for the contractor to survive for close to two hours, firefighters attempted to rescue a contractor trapped under a trench collapse. Everyone is shaken about this. Around ten thursday morning, the call came in initially for a building collapse. First responders quickly discovered something else. This was a street side utility construction site that had a collapse within the footprint of their street side project. The
Homicide Martinez Police lieutenant Patrick Salamon says 9 yearold eric coy was found stabbed to death. Martinez Junior High School killed after leaving his home on Warren Street on his way to a family members house. Mister cain is a person of interest in this case. Cain had ties to martinez at the time and lived close by. There are family members are still live with the area. For us as an organization from a chance. But me, its very important to provide justice to to any crime victim, especially of a small child. In addition to the stoner case, the Solano County das office says cain will also appear in court. For sodomy and Rape Convictions from the case back in 1979, in martinez, philippe all kron. 4 news. September is Emergency Preparedness month. Santa clara vta holding an Emergency Response training today. The authorities working alongside federal agencies like the department of Homeland Security and the transportation security administration. These are groups gathering at the dee
Is ktvu fox two news at 730. And good evening, everyone. Im heather holmes. We begin tonight with a crucial meeting happening in oakland. The Police Commission is discussing the search for a new police chief. Youll remember the mayor fired Lauren Armstrong back in february for mishandling to officer misconduct cases. Happening now or zac sos is live at Oakland City Hall where that meeting is taking place. Zach, whats happened there so far . Well, this meeting underway for just about an hour now and this meeting really just an opportunity for the public to weigh in on who they would like to see, take the helm of the Oakland Police department. But i can tell you, just based on people that ive spoken to, people making Public Comments so far, that this crowd seems to be largely behind the former chief, Lauren Armstrong. Now, a list of potential candidates was supposed to be submitted during this meeting to the mayor tonight, but amid a protest from several members of the Police Commission
Golden state are not being fair to us. Now he says he has plan to do something about it, potentially setting up a new battle between state legislators and Oil Companies. Scott budman heard from both sides. Well, this gas station and others here in the bay area up some 60 and 70 cents a gallon just in the last few days. Throughout california the average price of gas up 14 cents a gallon just overnight. These prices enough to get both drivers and politicians on both sides of the aisle angry. Angry drivers seems like the rest of the country has a way to figure out how to keep gas prices at a normal level, so that frustrates me. Reporter a angry politicians like governor gavin newsom. People are pissed off as am i about being ripoff by oil company. Reporter today talking about his recently created oversight body with power subpoena Oil Companies. The question he wants answered why the gap between gas prices in california and the National Average is now more than 2 a gallon. Asking about in
They only want to vote for individual bills, but they hold me up all summer and wont let me bring individual bills up. Then they say they wont vote for a stopgap measure that keeps government open. So i dont know where do you go in that scenario . The day at the end of the day will get it all. You democrats say they had a deal in place that would keep the government open. Republicans broke their word and turned their back on the agreement that they themselves negotiated. Why because they want to jam their extreme ideology down the throats of the american people. Thats why were in this manufactured republican crisis. A shutdown could affect everything from military members getting paid to access to National Parks like muir woods and yosemite. Now, this afternoon, we spoke with east bay congressman mark desaulnier. He touched on what else would be affected by a government shutdown. If youre going to travel that probably youre probably going to take longer. We know from previous shutdowns