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Live from the kgotv broadcast center. This is abc7 news. The bay area is drying out and cleaning up after a day of heavy rain, flooding strong winds and even hail. You now were getting ready for the chill. Good evening, thanks for joining us. The third storm this week caused lots of problems like this. There were many scenes across the bay area where residents had this to clean up after a treetop pelled on to three tree toppled on to three cars. No one was hurt there. Look familiar . This mans umbrella was no match for wind gusts in union city. The trees blew in the wind as you can see along whipple road along interstate 880. And this cell phone video shows us the sights and sounds of pebblesized hail pounding a familys deck in San Francisco. Drew joins us with the rain totals and whats up next. At times the rain was coming down in sheets. The embarcadero and emeryville and the bay bridge earlier today. You saw the front move through and it really brought some soaking showers. In terms
Reporter people of all faiths joined up to the Islamic Center open forum in alameda. Many muslims feel their religion is under attack. He says it has not been this bad in years. I would say after 9 11 there was definitely a lot of tension that happened, but nothing like this. This has been much worse. And it ties back to this whole notion of isis. Isis is definitely a fringe group that doesnt represent muslims or islam at all. Reporter vandals broke a window Islamic Center of alamedas former building a couple of weeks ago in richmond, police detonatedded a pipe bomb at the home of a man accused of making threats. Saturday morning in tracy, a mosque was damaged after being hit by what happened to be a molotov cocktail. There have been 70 incidents affecting Islamic Centers and mosques across the country, which is unprecedented. So we want authorities to be more proactive and look at this as hate crime. Theres been an uptick in vandalism, attacks and intimidation of muslims. Among those
Good morning. Lets get to our lead story. The deadly storms in the nations heartland. Theres more extreme weather on tap for the south and midwest after a severe storm system claimed at least 19 lives. The dallas area in particular hit hard with nine strong thunderstorms. We get more now from abcs megan hughes. Reporter the christmas twisters marched across the texas landscape. In rowlett, they tossed trucks and tore trees from the earth. You can see the transformers blowing up. Reporter the survivors count themselves lucky. Just very grateful were alive and were all safe. All this can be replaced. Reporter in missouri, flooding like this led to several deaths. And led the governor to declare a state of emergency. In oklahoma, west texas and new mexico, snow created whiteout conditions on the roads. Mike springer from affiliate koat. Just last week, it was 60 degrees in ross well. Today, everything is covered in snow. Reporter trucks out of control rest in the snow bank. More than 20 m
Live from the kgotv broadcast center, this is abc7 news. Record cold around the bay area is out of here for now. Drew will let us know where records were set today in just a few minutes. But first, the news is little comfort for thousand of residents in Contra Costa County who cant turn on their gaspowered heaters. Im Carolyn Tyler in for eric thomas. This is affecting more than 6,000 pg e customers in Discovery Bay and byron. Pg e says the recent cold weather caused the outage that could last into tomorrow night. Sergio is live in Discovery Bay where pg e has opened two warming centers. Certainly yow . Sergio . Carolyn, thats right. Two warming centers. This was the first one that was set up at timber point elementary school. The second was opened earlier this evening at the Discovery Bay Community Center at 601 Discovery Bay boulevard. Both are open to residents who may not have heat in their homes because they dont have gas service tonight. Teams of pg e crews fanned out across the