Every day, ikea is designing sleep sanctuaries to save our sleep. Im luz pena in San Francisco. Tourists who came to coin tower had more than a nice view to see. The Christopher Columbus statue was vandalized. After wrapping up a beautiful weekend, lots of sunshine. We are tracking a cooler week ahead. Well have the numbers coming up in the accuweather forecast. Governor newsom reviews the toll system. Im kate lawson in San Francisco. What the russian hill neighbors want to do next. Abc7 news starts right now. Now news to build a better bay area from newsom. Good evening, im eric thomas. Dion is off tonight. The christ fur columbus statue was vandalized over thease. Abc7 News Reporter luz pena with why the explorer is seen as a polarizing figure. Reporte this vie telegraph h. We came here for the tower, the view. Reporter but many got more than just a view Christopher Columbus statue standing feet away from the tower was vandalized. Red paint covered the face of the controversial colon
Its actually hail in half moon bay. Bryce jensen shared this video with us. He said the hail melted in about 20 minutes. And abc 7 news producer shot this video of steady rain mixed with hail at a home in belmont. You can see that peasized hail on the ground. And check out falling ice in oakland this afternoon. Share video using abc7now. Lets get the latest conditions now from Spencer Christian in for sandhya patel. We have certainly had the diversity of weather on display today. Right now we see patches of green indicating scattered showers continuing to swing through the bay area, some of them producing locally heavy downpours. Heres one cell producing some downpours between woodside and portola valley, a lot of wet pavement as the rain continues to fall. We have numerous reports today and continue to have them of peasize hail all across the bay area. In fact peasize hail fell for five minutes in redwood city. We are looking at the current pattern of bands of showers wrapping around
After learning about the travel ban. Iraq is one of the banned countries. Were afraid. We dont know the details of the order. Her dad has cancer, and she went to meet him and she hasnt been there in so long. Reporter now, we did see some passengers aboard that flight quickly made it out of passport control and customs and they were reunited with their families pretty quickly as well, but other travelers have taken a little bit longer. I just got word from the family members of that woman traveling here from iraq, they tell me that she just walked out of customs a few minutes ago so they have had a very happy reunion. For those people who are taking a little bit longer, there is a legal clinic that has been set up downstairs in case anyone needs legal advice. Of course there are more International Flights that arrive daily here at San Francisco international, so theyre going to be here at least for several days to continue monitoring the situation. Reporting live at San Francisco intern
Thought i had better run really fast. And i wanted to keep track of my friend make sure we both got outside. I didnt i wasnt sure what to expect. A decision was made at some point that it would be safer to move these people out of the area in the event that the subject emerged with a firearm. Generally there will be Police Officers too to cover the people while theyre moving from their residence or their business. Reporter at this point, the police have told us that all the businesses that are in the potential line of sight have been evacuated. As are all the residentses and anyone who is inside the single occupancy hotel where this had potential, this person with a gun is being holed up. So right now, there are two blocks of valencia street that are pretty much blocked off. There is not any pedestrian track or vehicle traffic going through there. So if you are going to be in this area, be aware that its going to be difficult to get around whether youre walking or driving. And this is
Between 16th and 18th streets for the past four hours because of the suspect holed up inside the crown hotel. Buses are being rerouted around the scene. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Well begin with reporter sergio anna ta na. Whats the latest where you are . Reporter around 5 00 when we talked to you last, we could see the building where there is all happening. But since then, the police have decided that because that person is now in an evacuated building and could potentially have the run of that building, and it is a Tall Building that can see a whole lot of the street, this he figure its probably just safe to move us around the corner so that we would not be in this potential, this person with a guns potential line of sight. Now, there are two blocks along valencia evacuated including people who are at strawns and other businesses. We were able to talk this afternoon with one, actually a couple women who were inside one of the restaurants and they were evacuated. So were bei