Convention meeting of friends from all over the world. The buzz around the buildings is welcome business for San Francisco hotels, restaurants and workers who are hoping for a faster rebound from the empty streets of the pandemic. Some of the citys struggles with homelessness and open drug use are still evident. I definitely noticed a little bit of a change from when i was here a couple of years ago. In recent months, sf travel says for various reasons, some companies that had tentative bookings are pulling back. Meta has canceled its Meta Business Group summit for march 2025, and workday also has withdrawn tentative plans for about 53,000 Hotel Room Nights worth of events. Some residents say they do see the city making changes. And i do see a difference. There has been more cleaning and the streets have been more cleared up. Some Convention Attendees say the city situation was better than they had expected. Maybe it was during the pandemic. It was worse. I think so now. Better than my
Tried to crash that Passenger Plane over the u. S. , what he now says he ingested. First, this evening, the news on the more than 200 hostages being held by hamas in gaza. Tonight, abc news has learned negotiators are working on efforts to free a significant number of hostages before any potential Israeli Ground invasion. What weve now learned. And what one of the hostages just released has now revealed. What was done to her, where they took her. The maze of hamas tunnels underground. And what she said to her captor just before she was released. Also, our team inside gaza tonight. Hospitals near collapse. And the kits theyre now giving to mothers about to give birth to deliver on their own. Matt gutman reporting. And the u. S. Warning to iran tonight. Martha raddatz with late reporting in washington on the attacks on u. S. Targets. On capitol hill tonight, new chaos in the battle to find a new house speaker. The republican congressman tom emmer nominated by Secret Ballot only to withdr
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Thats a trusted person at the airline. Im just happy to be home, happy to be safe, and im happy they handled it really well. An Emergency Landing for a flight bound for San Francisco after an off duty pilot who was riding as a passenger in the cockpit allegedly tried to shut down the engines. Good evening. Thank you for joining us for this special edition of abc7 news at nine. Im dan ashley and im ama daetz. The horizon air flight left everett, washington, just north of seattle, bound for San Francisco yesterday evening. But the plane was diverted to portland where the off duty pilot was taken off the plane and arrested accused of trying to shut off the engines. That off duty pilot has now been identified as 44 year old Joseph David Emerson from Pleasant Hill. Were not showing his photo because he has not been charged in court yet. He works for Alaska Airlines, which owns horizon air, which is why he was authorized to sit in the cockpit in the flight deck jump seat while its still not