We had to take just a little bit for the kitchen. Ranked highest in customer satisfaction. Ikea kitchens. Live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. This is very meaningful, meaningful for this community in that were coming back and were back in business. Downtown napa is back in business tonight, and theyre doing it in style, raising money for the community affected by sundays earthquake. Good evening, and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Sonoma county has declared a local emergency after last sundays 6. 0 Earthquake Center new years day napa. The proclamation clears the way for residents and Business Owners to seek state and federal emergency funds. Officials say Sonoma County suffered more than 4. 5 million in damages. The quake caused these 362 million in napa county. Lots of people are lending a hand to help rebuild tonight in napa. Abc 7 News Reporter is live in downtown napa where business is booming and some are the fundraisers. Sergio . Reporter there ar
The controls. Investigators say right now theyre piecing together the chain of events that led to the accident. My concern coming out here as it is for every investigation is to find out what happened. Gather the facts. On scene thats all well do, gather the fakes. Well make the measurements, open every door, and well look at every single part of what went on out here and make a determination as to what happened. Abc 7 News Reporter nick smith has more from the investigation today. Every part of the operation out here records inspections, you name it, well be turning over every stone opening every door. Reporter officials with the National Transportation safety board arrived this afternoon leading the investigation into the death of a b. A. R. T. Engineer and contract worker struck and killed by this train on the stretch of track between walnut creek and Pleasant Hill yesterday afternoon. It was a loud bang. The sound of the impact and the disturbing scene that followed left neighbors
Sent a new proportional that proposal that could end the strike. The new proposal would change work rules as they apply to iting implements new technology. The previous Contract Offer was voted down according to members. Now we will have to wait and see if this new contract will be accepted. We have learned that the bart board of directors will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss the labor negotiations and possibly discuss this new contract. You can count on kron4 to bring you the latest. Everything out of the meeting and the newest with the bart strike. We are learning that the ntsb has made some evaluations regarding the fatal bart crash. Groups of investigators will review the incident and it could last a few days to a few weeks. We do a thorough inspection of the equipment, a thorough mechanical inspection and every operation of the train, wheels, brakes, the third rail. The train was moved this evening, mechanical inspections are being done, investigators tell us it had to
Well, its a 12hour hike up and back for these young men and a lot of things changed during the course of those 12 hours. The mensah the fire jump into the valley, then it was suddenly burning east of half dome. Then something happened theyll never forget. At one point we saw two swedish women like sprinting and frantic. And they stopped and talked to us for a second and asked why we werent running down the mountain. In all of our perspective we kind of thought it wasnt a serious thing. Just the position of the fire and where we, were we thought we would be okay. Reporter turned out they were okay. The men shot these pictures for us. It was when they were well along the trail coming down off of half dome they saw the sky blacken and the wind was blowing the fire towards them. They saw the helicopters going to the top of half dome but they didnt know about the evacuations via helicopter until they were done with the hike. These guys are truly adventurers. I said, at least you didnt have
Bay area and if you think it was cold today, just wait. Expect near record lows tonight. I know the weather sounds like a broken record, but we could break some records tonight. Well get down to the low 20s again, but take heart. Well be able to change the forecast in a little bit because were looking for a bit of a warming trend after tomorrow night. We still have freeze warnings in effect for tonight. Temperatures will dive as low as the low 20s. That could be record breaking territory for parts of the bay area. Its posted for the entire bay area, hard freeze warning posted in the central valley. The only exception is San Francisco with the urban heat island meaning that well stay a little bit above freezing in the city itself. Overnight lows will be as low as 23 degrees at santa rosa tonight, 24 at napa, san jose down to 30 degrees and redwood city 28. Well have the entire forecast which does look frigid for tomorrow but a warming trend in sight in a few minutes. Using wind machines