Through the day look how warm. Noontime, 70s. 70s at the beaches today. Its a warmer afternoon for everyone. Ens la inner east bay. Youre very hot, in the 90s. But more hot weather to talk about the seven day outlining. Abc 7 is committed to building a better bay area. We focus on transportation. Like b. A. R. T. One of the biggest issues is fare he evasion. B. A. R. T. Tried several gates with mixed results. Next week the b. A. R. T. Board of directors will vote on gate designs. Luz pena spoke to riders for reaction. Some use the clipper card others jump the gate. Fare evasions are part of the reason the they will vote. I believe we had 89 percent of the people surveyed believed it was important to reduce fare evasion. Board director doesh allen is referring to a Online Survey conducted with riders the biggest concern. Too many people cheating the system. We walked around the embarcadero b. A. R. T. Station and asked what they thought about the options. I dont like any of them. As lon
Is rife with drug dealing and of course open air drug using. The owner of mr. Smith has shut its doors saying either employees nor customers want to walk the gauntlet that is now required just to get inside. It is always hard shutting down the business. This frustrating when it is something i feel the city should be able to control or do something about. And they are just not. Reporter when he opened mr. Smith in the tenderloin and the early 2000 the area was pretty deserted. There were some street level crimes. There were some issues. Not to the level we see today. Reporter he hoped new hotels and other businesses would improve the neighborhood. It has gotten increasingly worse. Now im dealing with organized drug dealers. On my corner. Every day. Reporter in the few minutes we took to do this interview several drug deals took place in plain sight. I dont know the details or where the breakdown is. I know police are working their tails off. It is not there. Reporter San Francisco mayor
Stations. News at 7 pm starts right now with the San Francisco bart owner who said he is so fed up with the drug use on his block. He is deciding to close his business altogether. Good evening. The bar owner tells us there is so much illegal activity customers dont want to come in. Reporter we are on seventh street just south of market in San Francisco. Behind me is a bar called mr. Smiths. 50 feet in that direction is the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Across the street is the Federal Building in San Francisco. Despite these prestigious buildings there is still a very serious issue with the drug dealing and of course drug use right here. The owner of that bar mr. Smiths said he had to close his doors because neither employees nor customers want to walk the gauntlet it takes to get inside. It is always hard shutting down the business. It is frustrating when it is something the city should be able to control or do something about. They are just not. Reporter max young said when he open
Mike, youre seeing some slowing in Contra Costa County. Thats the only place im seeing slowing. Mild slowing for the Altamont Pass. Zooming the map all the way up here is northbound 680 past or including the split with 242. There is a crew in the area. The slower speedsors are registering probably because of the work going on. You have to average out for all the vehicles over the sensors and probably averaging out to the slower speed registering towards the benicia bridge. Down to the bay bridge, no delays. Its about 15 minutes from highway 4 down to the berkeley curve. We have a mild backup for cash lanes this is just starting to shape up over at the toll plaza. Back to you. Thanks, mike. A deadly tour bus accident for a popular Country Singer happened on highway 46 in Central California about an hour outside of st. Luis obispo. Emergency responders say one person died, seven others injured. Two suffering major injuries. The crew is part of the josh turner tour. His next concert is to
Looking live from the exclusive Salesforce Tower camera looking is, the beautiful sparkling bay bridge. Good morning everyone. It is thursday, september 19. Good morning. It is 4 31. Lets get a check on the thursday forecast. It is already thursday, almost the weekend. Almost there to the end of the workweek. Happy thursday to you and dryer quieter weather today. Here is a beautiful live look with the Treasure Island camera with downtown San Francisco shining brightly with those buildings. Temperatures are cooler compared to yesterday at this time. We are looking at mainly in the 50s and upper 50s in concorde and oakland at 62. Midfifties in livermore and san jose, low 50s for santa rosa. As you go through the afternoon, we are looking at temperatures near seasonal. You can see for San Francisco, upper 60s and for oakland, 73, mid 70s and san jose and 81 in concorde. Temperatures running about 2 to 4 degrees below average for this time of year. We are going to warm up with details on t