A day of massive disruption on bay area roads by propalestinian protesters. Tonight turning into confrontations with police. The most intense weve seen all day will be right now. Were tracking the day of action from ripping down fences outside tesla to stopping traffic on 880 in oakland and trapping drivers for hours on the Golden Gate Bridge. Im feeling pretty frustrated. We just want to get to home or work. Everybody just mad. Plus, a pastor deeply involved in the south Bay Community now charged with sexually assaulting a child. Allegations of years of abuse. And tonight, one of the pastors own children is speaking only to abc seven and an emotional night for a Stanford Star, cameron brink, heading to the wnba. And her first congratulate comes straight from steph currys mom. This is just such a nerve wracking environment, but we work so hard for this. A lot to get to tonight. All on abc seven news at 11. Always live abc seven news starts right now, and we begin tonight with the prote
Is the tesla factory. Abc seven News Reporter tim johns is live at the warm springs bart station, where people are gathering tonight. Tim, what can you tell us . Yeah. Thats right. Now, these protesters have been out here for about a half hour. Im going to step out of frame here to give you guys at home a look at some of what were seeing here. Now these group of protesters say about 50 to 60. Their numbers have grown over the past 20 or 30 minutes or so. These folks are associated with the a 15 group. Now thats the same group that you guys were just talking about who shut down the Golden Gate Bridge and parts of 880 earlier today that a 15, obviously a symbolism for today being tax day, april the 15th. And the thing thats different about these protests and other ones that we have seen around the bay area in recent months, is these ones say their main focus is shutting down the Global Economy and having an impact on what they say is the u. S. Government and Major Economic players suppor
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Of demonstrations and human roadblocks across the bay area. Good evening. Im ama daetz and im diane lim. The chp is even going as far as to call it false the first local ptestegan at 615 on northbound 80 at fifth avenue. En at 755, protesters blocked sthbound lanes on the golden gate brid. A ort time later, at 815, another group of protesters shut down southbound lanes of 880 in oakland. We do have abc seven News Team Coverage tonight with luz pena looking at the impacts of these demonstrations and the consequences. Yes, but we begin with lena howland, who joins us live from oakland. Lena hey, there we are at the bottom of 880 southbound lanes at the on ramp at the seventh street location here in oakland, where things are back to normal. Now, the protesters that were blocking all lanes of the highway here at seventh street and blocking the entrance to this on ramp have since cleared the area, and the highway has since been reopened. Heres a look at what happened on 880 northbound near
Allegations of years of abuse. And tonight, one of the pastors own children is speaking only to abc seven and an emotional night for a Stanford Star, cameron brink, heading to the wnba. And her first congratulate comes straight from steph currys mom. This is just such a nerve wracking environment, but we work so hard for this. A lot to get to tonight. All on abc seven news at 11. Always live abc seven news starts right now, and we begin tonight with the protests across the bay area, the last one wrapping up just hours ago with Police Firing pepper balls. Good evening. Im ama daetz and im dan ashley. Thanks for joining us. Now these gatherings were not massive in attendance, but they had a huge impact. The chp arrested 38 people tied to the first round of protests. This morning. Protesters targeted three spots the Golden Gate Bridge and a one location in each direction of 880 in oakland. Frustrated drivers ended up trapped for hours as chp worked to break up the demonstrations. Proteste