For a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Well begin tonight with what happened after a simple request to wear a mask. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. And im dione lynn. This come is sharing this story to protect her family. In this story, you will see only on abc 7. Its really unacceptable to feel fear in your own home neighborhood. Reporter that fear is exactly the reason she is choosing only to use her first name in sharing the story behind this racist letter. It just basically says i wear my mask if i want, f word, asian. You create the virus. Reporter it all began with a walk with her twin infant girls when she spotted a man near by. He wasnt wearing a max. I asked when he came into ear shot that he wear a mask. Reporter what happened next was the beginning of a nightmare. He locked eyes with me and immediately started charging up the hill at me. Reporter she ran into her home terrified. Her husband then scared the man away. He came rushing out because he heard the
Good morning, motorcycle and ik. Im laura garcia. Lets talk about the cooldown, kari. Its been so nice to have the cooler weather around the bay area but also the air quality the other issue at times. It is looking very hazy and its not all that healthy to breathe it in. Especially in the north bay were still seeing a lot of the unhealthy air quality in the air. For the rest of the bay area its been decreasing as well. The spare the air alert has been extended as our temperatures remain comfortable. Still not safe for a lot of people to open up the windows and let cooler temperatures in. Ill be monitoring this. Well talk about whats ahead in the weekend forecast coming up. How is it looking for the Early Morning commute . Kari, the commute volume is light. Weve had a couple areas that are unusually slow. It should be changing. Look at the map, the first spot is hayward over on the right side of the screen. You see the icon as youre approaching 92, thats industrial boulevard. A crash an
President trump believes he is no longer contagious and could be back on the campaign trail as early as tomorrow. And the drug that he says cured his covid. Will the fda give it a final approval good morning im phillip mena. And im frances rivera. There was a chilling plan thwarted to kip michigan governor 13 men have been arrested. During a press conference whitmer called out the president for not doing enough to condemn hate groups. In a series of tweets the president slammed the governor he says, rather than say thank you, she calls me a white supremacist. Reporter the fbi says the target of the plot was michigans governor gretchen whitmer. Five men from michigan and one from delaware met several times starting in june and talked about storming the capitol and taking the governor hostage. Their main complaint was the strict conditions especially the closing of gyms. Members of this conspiracy on two occasions conducted coordinated surveillance on the governors vacation home. Reporte
Science and technology being applied to deal with them today. After that, Prime Ministers questions from the british house of commons. Then a campaign profile of joe biden. Host eric jay dolin, in your new book about hurricane history i , thought it would be interesting to start our discussion with one of the stories you tell because its the deadliest hurricane in American History and also the 120th anniversary. Eric in early september, a hurricane was fully making its way across the atlantic going inbetween cuba and florida, but the local meterologists in galveston, texas, isaac kline, based on his understanding of how hurricanes operated, he had told residents of galveston that the odds of a hurricane hitting galveston are virtually nil. The laws of hurricanes indicate that hurricanes would rarely hit texas. They were lulled into a false sense of complacency. As the hurricane got closer and closer. Isaac kline became more and more alarmed. It was really up to the Headquarters Office
The next president ial debate. The white house still refuses to release key details on the president s health as President Trump returns to the oval office calling his illness a blessing, touting that experimental antibody cocktail for helping him beat the virus and now says he wants everyone in the country to get access to it. All of this as the seriousness of the white house outbreak escalates. A new report that white house staffers may have exposed thousands of people to the virus. Sounding the alarm. Dr. Faucis urgent warning that the number of american lives lost to the virus could double if things dont improve. Plus, a former cdc director calls the Trump Administrations handling of the pandemic a slaughter as hot spots surge across the country. Wisconsin forced to prepare a Field Hospital as their Emergency Rooms overflow. Hurricane emergency. Overnight delta strengthening in the gulf after wreaking havoc in mexico. Now louisiana, mississippi and texas all bracing for the powerfu