We start with pictures from chopper 5 over oakland and walnut creek. In just the last hour protesters in walnut creek made their way onto 680. Kpix 5 is live in walnut creek now with a dramatic confrontation. Ondrea. Reporter alan, as we pan over to 680 northbound on the main street onramp you can still see officers on foot and in cars patrolling that section. That is where protesters made their way onto the freeway here for a short time. Weha some o chopr 5 to sh nfntation betwmeof these otesis wspli oup thoke of about 1000 people gathering inside central civic park. They marched around 5 00. At some point they made their way onto the freeway. We know there are flash bangs deployed by the california Highway Patrol as well as walnut creek police. We have seen officers from orinda and pittsburgh out here this afternoon. We also know that rubber bullets and tear gas were deployed on these protesters to get them off of the freeway. At this point the freeway is clear but they were on at so
Emergency meeting in santa rosa to deal with a growing homeless crisis. In San Francisco, one of the last all girls Catholic High Schools announce it will be closing. We spoke to several parents and students who are wondering what to do next. Excitement from the south bay just a few hours from the biggest 9ers came in years. Plus, ill have the playoff forecast and a look at your weekend weather. Abc 7 news at 11 starts right now. Now, from abc 7 live breaking news. And that breaking news, iran admits that its military quote unintentionally shot down that ukrainian jet liner. All 176 people on board died. In a Statement Released tonight, they blamed human error for the shootdown. Iran denied for several days. Went down on the outskirts of tehran just hours after iran launched missiles at u. S. Forces. People who live there describe the homeless crisis as exploding. Yeah. An machine a mile long homeless encampent, solutions were discussed tonight. But as abc 7 News Reporter explains, nei
[applause] i know that youre applauding because youre here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. Thats why we live here, and thats why such a wonderful destination for our visitors. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair, and we have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year. I hope that you will continue with us through tomorrow evening when the sevenday fair closes. You know, this fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, the collaboration, the passion, and the volunteerism of many people in our community. Namely, the students, faculty, staff of Miamidade College. [applause] and really hundreds of high school students, middle School Stunts and others in the community. So we truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair.
Rich edson live at the church in downtown charleston. Reporter good morning jon. Three hours from now dillon roof will have his bond hearing in the Court Detention center a few miles from downtown. Down here there has been a steady stream of mourners. It started with hundreds of people black, white stopping by the church, Emanuel Ame Church to leave cards, ribbons, sentiments. This continues throughout the day. A man just walking here coming from all other area, all over the region. There has been a steady stream of these folks crossing this yellow line to leave flowers thoughts, prayers condolence. There is a National Conversation ongoing about gun violence. President obama speaking yesterday bull a of this. The former governor of the state and congressman responding to the president s calls for stricter gun control. I think it is premature. You know, i think a lot of people will the nature of tragically of any tragedy is that people use to it advocate that which they believe in. Ther
Healthcare. [applause] to town halls katie path victim who says that is what were seeing right now. If you push people out of their Employer Health care, towards government care, that is what the president intended in that is a move to socialize medicine . Absolutely. So president obama before he was elected way back when in 2008, we saw him campaigning on this idea of want to go single payer. Fast forward to 2013 or last year and 2014 now, senator harry reid said the goal is absolutely not only to get people into a single payer system but to get rid of employerbased insurance altogether. Now there is something to be said about trying to get People Insurance they cant get it from their employer but the whole idea here is that people are going be to stripped of their insurance from their companies because the companies cant afford it and theyre pushed into the Government Program because the individual mark has been destroyed already by obamacare. We were not told that at the time 0 obam